Soulèvement

With this new work for 12 performers, choreographer Angelin Preljocaj explores the energy that drives great collective movements towards liberation.

Angelin Preljocaj explores the mysterious force that brings diverse and divergent groups of people together when injustice becomes impossible to ignore. In villages and cities alike, this force draws us out of our homes and sweeps through us like a tsunami, fuelled by the energy of despair and the dream of sparking a new beginning.

Driven by a powerful, magnetic sonic score by electronic music composer Irène Drésel, Soulèvement harnesses this raw energy and sends it coursing through the dancers’ bodies like a wave of joy. Together, they form a collective movement reminiscent of a murmuration of starlings, breaking apart only to re-form further on. Beneath it all lies the quiet hope of creating a space where the most powerful expressions of solidarity, sisterhood and brotherhood can emerge, along with a profound sense of freedom.

Music Irène Drésel
Lighting Éric Soyer

With Paul-David Gonto,  Afonso Gouveia, Verity Jacobsen, Florette Jager, Beatrice La Fata, Yu-Hua Lin, Théa Martin, Florine Pegat-Toquet, Romain Renaud, Mireia Reyes Valenciano, Valen Rivat-Fournier, Leonardo Santini

Choreologist Dany Levêque

Production Ballet Preljocaj/ CCN Aix-en-Provence

Coproduction TDV-Sarah Bernhardt, La Rampe - La Ponatière, Échirolles

With the support of the Grand Théâtre de Provence

The Ballet Preljocaj / Centre Chorégraphique National is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Communication—DRAC PACA, the Sud-Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, the Aix-Marseille Provence Metropolitan Area, and the City of Aix-en-Provence. It receives support from the Partouche Group—Pasino Grand Aix-en-Provence, the Circle of Corporate and Individual Patrons, and its partners.

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