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.
Supported by dancers with an impeccable academic background, a pretty rare ardour and passion on stage and a writing of the movement that never succumbs to the easy option, Alonzo King created a dance performance open to the world.
