CRWDSPCR DE M. CUNNINGHAM + FUGITIVE ARCHIVES DE L. LAÂBISSI + MESDAMES ET MESSIEURS DE P. JACOBSSON ET T. CALEY

CRWDSPCR // Choreography - Merce Cunningham | Music - John King, blues '99

Fugitive Archives // Choreography - Latifa Laâbissi | Sound design - Manuel Coursin

Mesdames et Messieurs // Choreography - Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley | Music - Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Mistinguett, Russ Colombo, George Olsen, Leo Reisman, Duke Ellington, Fess Williams

The second evening of this program is like a "return to the future", one step in dance history, the other in choreographic experimentation, in the image of Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley's career at the helm of CCN - Ballet de Lorraine.

Three pieces will be presented, each revisiting certain eras of dance and the futuristic visions of its choreographers.

Fugitive Archives by Latifa Laâbissi is a piece for eight dancers, a choreographic collage in which the ghosts of the past mingle and collide, the meeting of Hijikata Tatsumi's buto with Jean Börlin's Les Marchands d'oiseaux and the Swedish Ballet. The result is a dance that is troubled, funny, intriguing, grotesque and disquieting.

With Mesdames et Messieurs, we remain in the world of Les Ballets suédois, as Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley revisit Francis Picabia's cheeky Cinesketch. The duo's joyfully offbeat piece draws on the codes of burlesque cinema and the eccentric costumes of Parisian soirées in the Roaring Twenties.

Our final historical journey takes us to Merce Cunningham and his futuristic piece CRWDSPCR (pronounced "crowdspacer"). This pioneering work, created in 1993 and presented for the first time in Nancy, is based on choreography created using Life Form computer software developed especially for Merce Cunningham. A first step towards this new technology for a choreographer who never ceased to look to the future.

Prices according to placement:
Category 1 - €35 standard / €26 concessions
Category 2 - €25 regular / €18 concessions
Category 3 - €17 regular / €12 reduced

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