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François Gremaud presents both a (re)reading and a new per­form­ance of the fam­ous bal­let Gis­elle, as a love let­ter to the per­form­ing arts and the per­formers who make the art form what it is. His joy, exulta­tion and curi­os­ity will be embod­ied …

Mélanie Per­ri­er explores the many mean­ings of the simplest and most uni­ver­sal ges­ture – hold­ing hands – in a lumin­ous and viva­cious cho­reo­graph­ic and music­al piece. A fam­ily-friendly show with and for children.  What do these two men hold­ing hands mean to …

For the first time, Bel­gian cho­reo­graph­er Jan Martens presents a wide-scale piece ima­gined for the main stage with an atyp­ic­al corps de bal­let com­posed of 17 unique per­son­al­it­ies with a strong com­mit­ment against oppres­sion and assignations. Any attempt will end in crushed …

In the piece Mourn Baby Mourn, Kater­ina Andreou’s primary mater­i­al is sad­ness and nos­tal­gia. The piece is a solo devised as a dis­tress sig­nal, a vir­u­lent attempt at escap­ing melancholy. Greek cho­reo­graph­er Kater­ina Andreou’s reflec­tion starts with an intim­ate and col­lect­ive feel­ing of …

Cho­reo­graph­er Ruth Childs reprises four per­form­ances cre­ated by her aunt Lucinda Childs in the 1970s, a key moment in the career of a major fig­ure of con­tem­por­ary dance and in the his­tory of dance itself.  Fol­low­ing her ongo­ing trans­mis­sion pro­ject she star­ted …

Cho­reo­graph­er Vol­mir Cordeiro presents the side­walk as a place where everything is pos­sible, where dis­order takes many forms – an expans­ive uni­verse where six per­formers dance with aban­don in a mul­ti­colored, joy­ful and exuber­ant piece.  A play­ground where the rule would be to …

At once a mov­ing sculp­ture, a del­ic­ate per­form­ance and a slow cho­reo­graphy, Les Baigneurs (Bathers) infuses space with poetry and oneir­ic ges­tures – anoth­er pace and oth­er col­ors in the atmo­sphere of an ideal summer.  Under the Fal­aise sky, Yvan Clédat and Coco …

In a park, five new­ly­wed pairs wander around wear­ing tuxedos and white dresses and pos­ing for an invis­ible pho­to­graph­er. A piece which sub­verts the codes of wed­ding pho­to­graphy in a sur­pris­ing performance.  It is a quite usu­al sight on a beau­ti­ful Spring day – some­thing …

Two soli for an even­ing of cho­reo­graph­ic con­ver­sa­tion, between dif­fer­ent styles and eras for g r oo v e, which bor­rows, samples and revis­its, and between move­ments and rhythms for Odd Meters, which fol­lows the sinu­ous tempo of dreams. g r oo v e …