10 May 19:30

Ballet de Marseille/La Horde:
Age of Content

Cankarjev dom Theatre and Dance Ballet de Marseille/La Horde: Age of Content

Running time: The performance lasts approximately 75 minutes without intermission

In Age of Content, the virtual is no longer a shift from IRL. Virtual has created deep layers of signs which we are more and more able to experience and inhabit alongside our IRL world. Our virtual identities permeate our IRL world by influencing our actions, social interactions, and desires. Age of Content questions our physical and emotional responses to the abundance of content and simultaneous realities of our time.

From an initial cross through the reverse fourth wall, characters find their way to different layers of reality starting with a fight against other selves. Throughout the show, the scenography acts as a portal from which emerges parallel universes crossed by individuals who clash, fight, defend, escape, embrace, desire, love, celebrate together.
The dancers’ movements borrow from digital aesthetics combining simulated bodies and hypersensuality, from the uncanny familiarity of video-game avatars to Onlyfan aesthetics to viral Tik Tok moves. The choreographic compositions of these diffracted movements are confronted to the space of the stage where patterns from jazz and post modern dance but also musicals are enacted and intertwined to create a doom-scroll effect.

In our work, the stage is always the place to question our online and offline environments. A safe but not sterile place. A place that has its own reality and where it is possible to collectively explore different embodiments while encountering conflict and desire, cohesion and dance

This choreographic piece is a canvas that fuses dance and multimedia, inviting you to traverse the intricate tapestry of identity, media, and contemporary norms.

(La)Horde

Since 2013, (LA)HORDE brings together the artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel. This collective of choreographers and visual artists, who took on the direction of the Ballet national de Marseille in 2019, has always developed a collaborative project with several online communities that has given rise to several multidisciplinary and cross-community creations.
Through films and performances (Novaciéries, 2015; The Master’s Tools, 2017; Cultes, 2019 ; Ghosts, 2021), and choreographic pieces (Night Owl, 2016 ; To Da Bone, 2017; Marry Me in Bassiani, 2019; Room With A View, 2020), (LA)HORDE interrogates the political component of dance and maps diverse choreographic forms of popular uprising, transitioning from raves to traditional dances, as well as jumpstyle. Their exploration of the new dynamics of circulation and representation of dance and body that develop online led them to work on the concept of «post-internet dances». By diversifying formats, (LA)HORDE questions the almost infinite serendipity that this new territory provides and proposes multiple perspectives on the uprisings of the communities with whom they work in a heterarchical
way.

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Ballet de Marseille/La Horde: Age of Content

Gallus Hall

10 May 19:30

35,00 | 32,00 | 27,00 | 23,00 EUR

32,00 | 28,00 | 24,00 | 20,00 EUR * * EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.

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Foto: Blandine Soulage

Foto: Gaëlle Astier-Perret

Foto: Pierre Gondard

Foto: Alexandra Polina

Artistic concept and direction: (LA)HORDE — Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel
Choreography: (LA)HORDE in collaboration with the dancers and rehearsal coaches of the Ballet national de Marseille
Artistic assistant: Nadia El Hakim, Laure Bruno
Artistic collaborators choreography: Valentina Pace, Jacquelyn Elder, Angel Martinez Hernandez, Julien Monty
Stage design: Julien Peissel
Stage design technical advisers: Rémi d’Apolito, Julien Parra
Backdrop visual: Frederik Heyman
Music: Pierre Avia, Gabber Eleganza, Philip Glass
Sound engineer: Jonathan Cesaroni
Lighting design: Eric Wurtz
Light assistants: Gaspard Juan, Vincent Ribes
Costume stylist: Salomé Poloudenny
Costume assistants: Nicole Murru, Sandra Pomponio, Minok Terre
Hair direction: Charlie Le Mindu
Hair assistant: Sky Flores
Stunt coaching and advise: Stunt Workshop International - Amedeo Cazzella, Alex Vu, Malik Diouf, Yann Brouet, Jonathan Bernard, Patrick Tang

Vocal coaching: Deborah Bookbinder
Research and documentation: Timothée Engasser

With the dancers of the Ballet national de Marseille: Sarah Abicht, Nina-Laura Auerbach, Alida Bergakker, Isaïa Badaoui, Izzac Caroll, João Castro, Titouan Crozier, Myrto Georgiadi, Nathan Gombert, Eddie Hookham, Ibai Jimenez, Nonoka Kato, Yoshiko Kinoshita, Amy Lim, Jonatan Myhre Jørgensen, Aya Sato, Paula Tato Horcajo, Elena Valls Garcia, Nahimana Vandenbussche, Antoine Vander Linden
Stage constructions: les ateliers de la MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble scène Nationale, Sud Side les ateliers spectaculaires/Marseille, Atelier Contrevent, Soudure Duret with the participation of Julien Parra, Dimitri Bovas, Théophile Eschenauer, Christophe Lanes, Sébastien Mathé, Milan Petrucci, Kostia Pozniakoff
Low rider programming: Luís Parra
Decoration: Cristian Zurita
Stage manager: Rémi D’Apolito
Special thanks to the permanent and intermittent team of the Ballet national de Marseille

Production: CCN Ballet national de Marseille

Coproduction: MC2 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, scène nationale – Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2023 – International Summerfestival Kampnagel, Hambourg – Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Théâtre du Châtelet – Créteil-Maison des arts – Maison de la culture, scène nationale d’Amiens – La Comédie, scène nationale de Clermont-Ferrand – L’Équinoxe, scène nationale de Châteauroux – Charleroi Danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie, en partenariat avec le Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi – Grand Théâtre de Provence - Espace des Arts, scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône – Opéra de Dijon – Teatro Rivoli de Porto.

Residencies hosts: MC2 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, scène nationale et International Summerfestival Kampnagel, Hambourg. Avec le soutien de Lieux Publics-CNAREP (Centre National des Arts de la Rue et de l’Espace public) et pôle européen de production, et le soutien de la Cité des arts de la rue
With the support of: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

In partnership with: Diesel
The CCN Ballet national de Marseille – direction (LA)HORDE receives the support of DRAC PACA, Ministère de la Culture, Ville de Marseille and BNP-Paribas Foundation.