A French couple just enter, like a virus in a Mexican landscape full of legends and symbols, where is told stories of ghosts, murders, kidnappings and violence…
I am dreaming of this piece as a remedy. A remedy from the rituals of Western theatre, its frontality, its strict temporality, its relationship to power. Therefore, we will be performing within a closed space, without wings or sets. Close to one another. Limited in number. All on the same level, no risers, no fourth wall. Withinthese conditions, one can choose one’s own viewing hour, as the show will take place several times per day…
Will Ada Colau be able to change the rules of the game?
Prolific New York choreographer Jonah Bokaer will perform two pieces that are emblematic of his collaboration, since 2007, with visual artist Daniel Arsham: Why Patterns and RECESS. Also on the bill: the French premiere of their latest work, Rules Of The Game, inspired by Pirandello’s stageplay Il Gioco Delle Parti and featuring an original score by Pharrell Williams – his first ever for a piece of choreography, recorded by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Romeo and Juliette. Francis and Clara. Two couples that form just one. They only have one night for them. Just one night to live and relive their love whose outcome we know. They are the duet of Shakespeare and Prokofiev. The couple of yesterday and today. They are those intrepid, eternal childrens, those fiery teenagers, those adults tight against each other, trying to protect themselves against the raging world. Crossed by the sensations of pleasure,…