Furieux·ses ?

Dance - From 11 years - Compagnie Le grand jeté ! - Frédéric Cellé.

Bodies twisting and falling to sketch out the contours of tomorrow's world.

In a setting where nature has reclaimed its rights over human civilisation, four young dancers adept at acrodanse (a devilishly physical choreographic style, as its name suggests) express the full range of the new generation's questions and concerns as they seek to put themselves - literally - in a trance.

Set to the throbbing bass of a DJ and using an old bathtub eaten away by lichen or a half-crumbled wall as their props, these four standard-bearers of today's youth, all with very different personalities, throw themselves into breathtaking jolts, jolts and jolts in an attempt to reconcile the individual and the collective. It's a utopia that these toddlers, who don't need LSD to reach a second state, are pencilling in: that of a society where emancipated and proud beings interact, a kind of free commune (modelled on that of Quatre Chemins du Creusot?) of which Furieux.ses? is the herald...

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