Ballroom
Duration : 1h15
« My goal is for the audience member to wonder: what is my own outlet? And what place do I leave it? I’m interested in the response of the body because I’m a choreographer, but it’s not an ultimate response in and of itself. (…)
I had a visceral desire to create my utopian, outrageous party, my dream show: friendly, free and unifying. »
Considering the theater as a space of physical and psychic freedom, Ballroom is rooted in Arthur Perole’s research on traditional and contemporary releasing dances, from voguing to tarantella, from farandole to the night-time pulses of techno. So many reasons for the emergence of a physical, eruptive dance, a dance of excess and outrageousness, of exertion and exhaustion, questioning the gathering strength of the group, of an exalted community.
More than ever, Ballroom involves the audience, imbues them with a physical vibration, a sensory excitement through its contagious energy, its surge of colors, make-ups and other props, through its ambient incantatory electro beats composed by Giani Caserotto…
Here, the provocation is not seen as a dogma, it is the result of an immeasurable and sincere joy in pushing away the walls, ignoring constraints, putting down all barriers of identity, category or gender.
Ballroom is a party, sometimes waning, sometimes dizzying; an indecent and jubilant celebration of the senses; a raved and raving trance: the dream of a space of regained freedom.
Cast and creative
Conception and choreography : Arthur Perole
Artistic collaboration : Alexandre Da Silva
Dancers : Julien Andujar, Séverine Bauvais, Joachim Maudet, Marion Carriau, Alexandre Da Silva, Lynda Rahal
Music : Giani Caserotto
Lighting : Anthony Merlaud
Costume design : Camille Penager
Coaching vocal : Mélanie Moussay
Outside view : Philippe Lebhar
Lighting on tour : Nicolas Galland
Sound on tour : Benoit Martin
Production and Touring : Sarah Benoliel
Administration : Anne Vion
Thans to : Emilie Peluchon, Léa Poiré
et Tadeo Kohan
Production : Compagnie F
Coproduction : Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse // Théâtres en Dracénie – scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création // Le Pôle des Arts de la Scène – La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille // Le ZEF scène nationale de Marseille // Réseau Traverses Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur // Charleroi-danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles // Théâtre Durance, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création – Château Arnoux-Saint-Auban // KLAP Maison pour la danse (résidence de finalisation 2019) // Ballet National de Marseille – Centre chorégraphique national // Le CCN2, Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble
Wth the support of Fonds SACD de musique de scène
Sponsorship : la Caisse des dépôts
Residency : Théâtre Paul Eluard de Choisy-le-Roi // Charleroi danse // Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles // L’Etang des Aulnes // LE DANCING de la Cie Beau Geste // le Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône – Centre départemental de créations en résidence // La Gare Franche, maison d’artistes, théâtre & curiosités // Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale
Tournées passées
Saison 2020 – 2021
Saison 2019 – 2020
CHALON-SUR-SAONE