It’s time. Time to gather again and enjoy dance… in venues. It’s time to practice together. To share moments side by side, face to face.
Time to think about change.
When I was a dancer in La Rochelle’s National Choreographic Centre, spectators used to approach us after the performance to express their gratitude for providing them with a physical experience. That is how I understood that dancers are gatekeepers.
We are guardians, by proxy, of a space that many of us can hardly afford to keep alive. Most people have very limited time for themselves. Dancers (try to) dedicate most of their time to the luxury of just being effective living organisms.
Attentive to our bodies’ intelligence and efficacy, our job is to be mindful of the fact that we are embodied beings. Trying to perceive and optimize how we use ourselves. We play with the endless ways of living an embodied life, experimenting with all forms of coordination and their significance.
Our purpose, when we perform, is to include you, the audience, in our journey: to move you by moving ourselves.
Have you noticed that, since the pandemic restricted our movements, a striking number of commercials started featuring dancers? Dancers are not only a symbol, they are the real and very needed physical gatekeepers of a world that is steadily disappearing.
For us, dance is always social, always shared, always relevant, never trivial.
This 2021 edition aims to be a dedicated space and time where you can discover dance in a million ways. We hope you can take the time to feel with us what we do best: including you in a shared embodied practice to face the future, and the unknown…
