Dance, travel, otherwise we are lost.
That was still within the initial year of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly before the second lockdown in France. In front of Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes, Kazutomi ‘Tsuki’ Kozuki walked toward me with a takeaway coffee in hand. Apart from the crew cut, he looked unchanged compared to the first time I saw him …
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Unlike the postponed springtime in France, Artdanthé Festival rewarms dance lovers as usual in Vanves, a suburban town south of Paris. For 27 consecutive years, the Théâtre de Vanves has dedicated this festival mainly to young choreographers, both from France and other European countries. This year, the audience could see 22 dance performances in 3 weeks, and …
8pm. Living room. Music, friends, drinks and food. Muffled thunder. I walked in the unlit bedroom and opened the window, smelling the gentle rain in which stood a black-clothed man. When watering the land with a hose, he encounters a dying octopus. After a bite, he retains it in a fish tank. He takes a …
Born in 1986, Marco da Silva Ferreira is a rising Portuguese choreographer on European stages. Prior to discovering street dance in his hometown Santa Maria da Feira at the age of 16, his main body practice came from professional swimming. He received a degree in physiotherapy before fully dedicating himself to dance, first as a dancer and …
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From (LA)HORDE’s takeover of the Théâtre de Chaillot to Nadia Vadori-Gauthier’s trio at the Musée d’Art Moderne of Paris, immersive performances have featured prominently this season in Paris. This is not a new form in the history of dance, but its dynamism is reaching new audiences today. The dance writer Hang Huang met the Italian …
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Dark space. Flashing lights. I can only see one tunnel, mysterious and futuristic. Suddenly, a montage cuts the long take shot: here and there, humans appear and disappear. In those sequences of running and falling, I feel the panic; it must be something severe. Everyone holds the last hope and human solidarity makes the situation …
Lights dim. The sounds of a metal punch and a ventilator unfold our imagination behind the curtain. Soon the stage discloses a ritualistic scene: a chair on top of a table forming an altar, black-clad Spanish choreographer Richard Mascherin powdering the centre to generate smoky air; another man in the shadows produces the sound partly sourced from …
Dear Marco, When I enter the Theater of Vanves in the south of Paris, I see a stage framed like an A4 paper, with a 90-degree folded header made of light panel. Indeed, it is a letter from you to “Dear N”, brightly illustrated on the header. You appear on stage, talking to us casually …
The duration of Eszter Salamon’s Monument 0.10 The Living Monument is indicated on the ticket: 2 hours. When the charcoal-black scene emerges from the darkness, I feel like somebody has slowed down my playback. I cannot measure the tempo but I know that a speed of 0.5x will double the duration. Will it turn into a crescendo?
We aren’t supposed to understand a hybrid of mollusc and arthropod, are we?
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