Autumn 1951: it rains. The flood of the Po river breaks its banks and the Polesine becomes a huge lake of 70 square kilometers. You flee without being able to choose what to bring, you flee to be able come back, you come back to start over.
Autumn 2021: it's raining. A woman is grappling with yet another move, scans the rooms, and she decides to take everything away. All that she has.
The monologue intertwines the two stories, natural tragedy and personal tragedy: loss, bewilderment, fleeing one's homes on the one hand; separations, removals, mortgages on the other.

Two stories that come to merge together, a reflection on voluntary uprooting and involuntary, about the big and small events that change our lives that opens up to the question: Would it ever be possible for us to truly lose everything? A reflection on loss, on possession, on what remains.

Closing the B.Motion Music programme is a musical duo based in Seoul, which challenges the sonic possibilities of Korea's best-known traditional string instruments: the gayageum and the geomungo. Ethereal and otherworldly, Dal:um creates a compelling sound world that holds subtle dynamics and space between notes, in a dialogue between traditional and experimental practices. Although both Suyean and Hyeyoung had been playing traditional Korean music since their childhood, their meeting resulted in a shared desire to extend the techniques and boundaries of their instruments and to develop their own distinctive repertoire. "The literal meaning of Dal:um is 'to pursue something' and infuse our passion for music," says Hyeyoung.

Similar to a translation of traditional Asian painting and its intrinsic dialogue (and harmony) between emptiness and fullness, Dal:um's wonderfully balanced and expansive music is defined by inspired dialogues and creative paradoxes between silence and expression, contemporary and traditional, full and empty, similar and different.

National Premier

a project by Lara Barsacq
artistic advice Gaël Santisteva
Gilbert & Stock production
co-production danse, Les Brigittines, Théâtre de Liège, CCNO – CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris – CDCN, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux – La Rochelle
created and starring Marta Capaccioli, Carlos Garbin, Marion Sage, Sue-Yeon Youn
scenography and costumes Sofie Durnez
lights Kurt Lefèvre
voice Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
original music Carlos Garbin and the performers
supported by the Ministry of the Wallonie-Brussels Federation – Service de la danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Grand Studio, Réseau Grand Luxe

Lara Barsacq is once again turning to the Ballets Russes at the start of the 20th century for inspiration, paying homage to one of its underrated creators, Bronislava Nijinska, who created the choreography for Les Noces to a score by Igor Stravinsky. This ballet stages the marriage of a peasant couple and the preparations of the young bride, in tears at the thought of this future union. Lara Barsacq takes this story and evokes femininity, rites of passage and the freedom of dancing bodies.

Aerowaves 2023 selection
choreography and performance Leïla Ka
lights Laurent Fallot

with the support of CCN De Nantes, Chorège cdcn, Drac Pays De La Loire, Espace 1789 scène Conventionnée, L’étoile Du Nord scène Conventionnée, Le Gymnase CDCN, Le 104 – Paris, Les Hivernales CDCN, Les Quinconces - L’espal scène Nationale, Le Théâtre scène Nationale, Musique et Danse en Loire Atlantique, Ramdam - un centre d’art, Théâtre se St-Lyphard, Théâtre de Vanves, Scène Conventionnée, Théâtre Du Cormier, Tremplin réseaux Grand Oues
with the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati - Franco-Italian foundation that support contemporary creation

It is a leap into the void without a safety net, a completely insolent act, a pulsing rebellion. It is an unquenchable and indomitable desire, for freedom. Leïla Ka appears, barefoot and dressed in a simple shirt, loose and long, resembling a nightdress or a straitjacket. But there is the one who receives them and tries to dodge them and the one who rebels. The one who seems vulnerable and the one who is unstoppable and insolent, whose body, like a caged lion, openly tries to free itself from an absurd and grotesque discipline.