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Lara Barsacq con­ceived La Grande Nymphe as a per­form­ance which recalls a danced con­cert and sheds a con­tem­por­ary female per­spect­ive on L’Après-midi d’un faune (After­noon of a Faun). La Grande Nymphe is for Lara Barsacq an occa­sion to rein­vent the fig­ure of the nymph …

KNIGHT-NIGHT by Bry­ana Fritz and Thibault Lac revis­its the fig­ure of Don Quix­ote to work on the oscil­la­tion between real­ity and rep­res­ent­a­tion, abstrac­tion and nar­ra­tion. Dance and poetry unite to cel­eb­rate the fra­gil­ity of an instant.  Liv­ing in a time and …

With the piece Col­ors and Num­bers, Ant­o­nia Baehr and Latifa Laâbissi reflect on the vari­ous strategies for queer struggle against het­ero­norm­at­ive rep­res­ent­a­tions, in a per­form­ance they con­ceived as a series of liv­ing paint­ings com­bin­ing sev­er­al artist­ic idioms.  How can norm­ativ­ity be decon­struc­ted …

IL FAUX by Brazili­an cho­reo­graph­er Calixto Neto reflects on the idea of dis­pos­ses­sion and a body under the threat of erasure.  In his essay Between the world and me, Afric­an-Amer­ic­an author Ta-Nehisi Coates devel­ops the idea that the black man in …

Dutch cho­reo­graph­er Arno Schuitemaker’s piece is about dis­tance and the rela­tion to oth­ers ; it uses video and a stage whose lim­its are blurry.  How can we move for­ward and get closer to oth­ers? That ques­tion per­meates Remem­ber­ing the future, which first …

A pro­ject cre­ated with dan­cers Joana Levi, Lucas Fon­seca, Mar­tim Gueller and Wash­ing­ton Silva, in which cho­reo­graph­ers Mar­cela Levi and Lucía Russo reflect on the notion of polyrhythm. After their impress­ive Let It Burn, a solo per­formed in Caen in Septem­ber …

Flora Détraz’s piece HURLULA com­poses a bust­ling sound­scape made of vari­ous screams, yells, shouts, and stud­ies their echoes in the move­ments of the bodies. For her new piece, Flora Détraz con­tin­ues her explor­a­tion of the con­nec­tions between voice and move­ment; HURLULA …

South Afric­an cho­reo­graph­er Nel­isi­we Xaba’s piece is a per­form­ance in the dark, a solo per­formed out of the public’s sight, which calls on all the oth­er senses. Nel­isi­we Xaba’s new piece, Blind Spot/Blind Date, is, as the title explains, a blind per­form­ance. The …

After spend­ing two weeks with the “Accueil-stu­dio” pro­gram in the CCN, Por­tuguese artist Catar­ina Mir­anda will present Atsumori, a work in pro­gress which is part of her new piece. The piece, made for 5 dan­cers, was inspired by nô theatre and it …