Shudder - Louise Michel Jackson, Ben Fury & Rodolphe Coster
25 minutes
Welcome to the choreographic discothèque and its noisy pop-industrial music. In this somewhat cynical, minimalist study of the quest for euphoria, the performers shake their way to oblivion. Their trembling bodies, by way of subtle articulations and their variations, trace a hypnotic, poetic story of an addiction to adrenaline. Their choreography is stripped down rhythmic patterning that moves towards the energy of ecstasy until they launch into a form of hyper-energetic “jumping” from rave culture. At this wild, drunken party, the dancing becomes an outlet for hysteria. There is a touch of humour, a bit of pathos in the proposition, but perhaps no resolution to be found in the end. The choreographers ask: Do do we seek this extreme state of mind to conceal our fragility and vulnerability? We are shaken to the bone. This performance will literally leave you quivering in your seats.
FAILLE: Deux corps sur le comptoir - Jessica Serli
30 minutes
In a stripped-down laboratory setting, this “electro-sensitive” duet poses important questions about the nervous system and the biology of stress. This is an aesthetic of involuntary muscular contractions with moments of immobility. The dancers twitch and tremble while they set about their tasks both as researchers and human test subjects. So that it might awaken physical sensations also in spectators, the artist employs various sensorial stimuli: lights, sounds and even electroshocks. In a choreographic style that moves between precision and surreal (de)formations of the body, this dancemaker seeks to get under your skin and so to examine the life teeming within. She beckons us to observe the inner life of our most profound and authentic self.
Untamed – Compagnie Entitey / Jason Martin
30 minutes
Untamed is a constant dialogue between instinct and emotion. Two dancers and an electric guitarist – bring to life the trance-like energy of a rock concert in a vibrant choreography. There are saturated pools of light and percussive electroacoustic sounds. This young choreographer is a former elite hockey player who carried into the art world his love for fierce, physicality and intense spectator engagement. Keep an “invested audience” on the edge of their seats! Keep the dancers vigilant and stimulate their animal instincts! Here is choreography that reminds us of the sheer power and emotional drive of highly charged dancing.
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