Inspired by the unpre­dict­able flight of flocks of birds, Rachid Ouram­dane brings order and chaos to the stage. A hyp­not­ic kal­eido­scope, embod­ied by the Lithuani­an per­formers of the Seiko Dance Company.

Cre­ated in 2021 as part of the Franco-Lithuani­an cooper­a­tion pro­ject Klaipėda, and ini­ti­ated by the Caen ccn, the Seiko Dance Com­pany, the Insti­tut français de Litu­anie, the muni­cip­al­ity and uni­ver­sity of Klaipėda, Eye of the Storm explores the uni­ver­sal laws of chaos and order. French cho­reo­graph­er Rachid Ouram­dane drew his inspir­a­tion from the – anarch­ic or organ­ized – move­ments of street crowds like swarms of birds in flight. Com­bin­ing lifts, runs, spir­als, turns and uni­son, the dynam­ics at work on stage cre­ate explo­sions of energy and times of dilated ten­sion, as if we were in the eye of a cyclone.