Festival “Ici & Là”: the best of contemporary dance is in Toulouse
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Driven by Dance Squaredirected by Corinne Gaillard, “Here & There” will welcome artists from Brazil, Greece, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark and France.
“Percussive, joyful, alive! »
His ambition? “To immerse yourself in today’s dances and change your point of view, to explore gesture and movement in every detail, to revolt, to mix with spirits, to let yourself be inhabited, to cross, with or without music, to dive into art history or technology, dare the abstract and start dancing. We wonder, we have fun, we venture there, together. Impactful, intriguing, joyful and decidedly alive,” reads the program’s statement of intent.
Three passionate weeks, like “Larsen C”of Christos Papadopoulos, one of the most important names in contemporary dance, which will once again reveal the poetic and hypnotic style of the Greek choreographer. With six male and female dancers, “Larsen C” is a dark, deep study, animated by sounds and music that leave no one indifferent. “I was driving in the forest and depending on the music I listen to on the radio, I perceived the landscape differently. With classical, I was in Switzerland or Austria while Greek folk transported me to my grandfather’s village” declared the choreographer in 2021 to tell the story of the birth of this formidable “Larsen C”, to discover at the Cité February 9 and 10.
Leïla Ka, the stage like a boxing ring
We will not miss, on February 2 and 4, “Enchanted”, the new collective creation by the Brazilian Lia Rodrigues, who will produce a flamboyant fresco in the Garonne, a “theatre-world” populated by eleven imaginary beings passing from body to body. Fascinating.
The stage as a boxing ring: this is how Leïla Ka envisages it in “Be beautiful” (at the Kiwi on February 7, with “Comme unsymbol” by Alexandre Fandard). In her nightgown, Leïla Ka throws herself to the sound of hard-hitting electro music on the ring stage to explode clichés and shackles. Disgusting and essential!
“Destroy!” by the Anglo-American Ruth Childs (February 13 at the Studio de La Place de la Danse), will question and challenge the public: “What does violence do to the body? » Inspired by the sculptures of German-Austrian artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and his faces distorted by fear, pain or hatred, this “blast” promises a moment of grace… and terror.
A dense and captivating program, to continue to question the place of human beings, strong and fragile, in today’s world, here… and there.
Jean-Claude Simon
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