Maguy Marin signs with BiT her fourty ninth show in just forty years. The title refers to computer term designating the basic unit of measurement of information. This word, very tonic, gives a first rhythmic impulse, after which the show begins, an implacable succession of impulses, twists and tensions orchestrated with rigor in a dance that is both joyful and desperate. The main point of the show is : the farandole, one of the forms…
In the slums of Calcutta, Muslim girls try to escape poverty and seek empowerment through boxing.
Black, gay and seropositive, he wants to fight against exclusion in all forms, and this, through art.
“A Young Patriot” examines the concept and practice of patriotism among youngsters in China born after 1989, those who have not had their hopes raised by the fall of the Communist bloc or experienced the events of Tiananmen Square.
Some people will say that he brought back hip-hop in operas, others will say that he brought classical dance back in the street.However, which makes no debate is Kyle Abraham’s ability to abolish borders between the bitumen art and the parquet floor. If the choreographer has received a classical education, it’s in the contemporary dance and the Hip-hop that he find his inspirations. The results are creations full of emotions in which one, bodies and…
Childhood photos from Nurith Aviv’s family album evoke memories and reflections which lead her to encounters with researches in neuroscience.
The show begins with the violence, the urgency, the fury of the body which, full of rage, feels the need to protest against the box in which it is enclosed. The light creates very delimited spaces. The man is in war, but in contrary of the previous century, it’s a war against the machine, a war against the system and more a war against man himself.
Andrea Miller, the talented choreographer of this young New York dance company, creates a powerful universe of true beauty, supported by a troupe of virtuoso performers. This community of artists founded in 2007 in New York chose to explore the visceral and imaginary dimensions of movement. The world of “Wonderland” is filled with joy, humour and poetry. The dancers, wearing scanty, close-fitting grey clads with strange tights, bodies and caps seem to come straight out…
After Pléiades and the Percussions de Strasbourg at Chaillot, Alban Richard introduces his new creation in residence. A choreographic, musical and theatrical evening. On stage, eleven male performers, dancers, musicians, actors progress through seven rooms of different sizes and types: sottie, mystery, morality, monologue, Sabbath … Those seven rooms are like trance and theatre rituals, stories of blood and ghosts, apparitions and disappearances . Et mon coeur a vu à foison is an exuberant and…
A mythical play that goes closest to what exists at the rythm’s birth, and sound : pulsations of the heart, sound of the wind or sand grains.
