Dance

A dialogue between bodies and materials, metamorphoses, overflow: Borda by Lia Rodrigues is not a geographical border lined with walls or barbed wire. It is a place of invisible crossings and frictions — a space of care, fertile contaminations, and joyful hybridizations.

In a country like Brazil, where individuals from diverse cultures and histories coexist, what does identity really mean? Led by choreographer Alejandro Ahmed, Grupo Cena 11 responds: identity is the encounter with otherness — especially the otherness we carry within ourselves.

For this augmented, site-specific recreation in the former SNCF maintenance center — now transformed into Les Grandes Locos — Crowd brings together 18 dancers, each embodying their own character and story.

Set within a kind of historical frieze, a group of all ages walks in the same direction, then dances — tirelessly. True to its evocative title, Entre-Temps, the new creation by renowned choreographer Philippe Decouflé, flows, passes, repeats, and above all, transforms.