Programme

Shot near Bergen, Landscaping is a video installation developed with Carte Blanche, the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance, plunging us into a world where humans and nature co-exist differently.

No one can disregard the street; it is everyone’s business. A place of a thousand faces, which Brazilian choreographer Volmir Cordeiro has chosen to embody in a percussive solo fuelled by the rhythms of Washington Timbó.

Metamorphoses, overflows, a dialogue between bodies and materials… Lia Rodrigues’ Borda is not some geographical border, demarcated by walls or barbed wire; it is a place of frictions and invisible passageways, a space for caring, for fertile contaminations and joyous hybridisations.

Three choreographers, three visions of the night.

Último Helecho takes us on a fantastical underground journey rooted in Argentine and Peruvian folklore.

Melding sound, movement and material, Leather Better explores leather’s sensoriality and probes masculinity.

MONUMENT 0.10: The Living Monument immerses the audience in a universe where color and slowed-down movement create a unique sensory experience, offering through vibrant tableaux a meditative journey into a dreamlike world where time seems almost suspended.

In a country like Brazil, where people from different cultures and historical backgrounds live together, what can identity mean? Grupo Cena 11, led by choreographer Alejandro Ahmed, has an answer: our encounter with otherness. And above all, the otherness inside of us

For this augmented and site-specific re-creation in the former SNCF maintenance depot — now transformed into Les Grandes Locos — Crowd brings together 18 dancers, each embodying a distinct character and story.

In Spongebabe in L.A. (4 Love & Anxiety), Mercedes Dassy crafts a riveting solo about resilience and rebirth.

In Vapor, Original Bomber Crew fuses break, capoeira and everyday gestures in a vibrant tribute to Brazil’s outskirts.

In Ad Libitum, Simon Le Borgne and Ulysse Zangs create a vibrant dialogue between dance and live music, exploring the body’s metamorphosis and the act of creation.

The virtuoso flair of two young urban dancers responds to the intensity of a Schubert composition for piano four hands, in a fantasia by Marco da Silva Ferreira, a self-taught choreographer with a club background and master of genre mash-ups.

In Cheb, Filipe Lourenço crafts a vibrant encounter between traditional Maghreb music and contemporary sounds.

Handling long strips of shimmering fabrics, seven dancer-musicians give material form to the invisible kingdoms of their delirious imaginations.