Tickets
Duration: 55 minutes
Language: none
Age: 12 years and up
Content notes: use of strobe lighting in individual scenes
Childcare from 17:30 – 19:30:
Free childcare provided by a professional from Gioia Cares
Admission via vermittlung@dampfzentrale.ch
Further information on childcare can be found here.
As part of Migros Culture Percentage Dance Festival Steps
Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari are in tune with the times with their company Dyptik: classical ballet meets street art, contemporary dance meets breakdancing. What sounds like a potential clash is their recipe for success. The two hip-hop choreographers from France are thrilling audiences across Europe with their latest indoor performance, Le Grand Bal. In it, they explore the phenomenon of dance fever and how it spreads to other people.
Not far removed from isolation, social tensions and an oppressive gloom, the piece asks what happens when the body breaks out: On stage, a fever spreads, a shiver gradually overtakes the nine-member group, then finally redemption: Le Grand Bal is a ceremony of liberation. The rousing choreography puts the dancers into a trance and spills over: a collective intoxicating experience as the climax of a revolt that goes far beyond the edge of the stage.
Credits
Artistic direction and choreography: Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari
Dancers: Mounir Amhiln, Charly Bouges, Yohann Daher, Nicolas Grosclaude, Hava Hudry, Beatrice Mognol, Carla Munier, Davide Salvadori, Alice Sundara
Music: Patrick De Oliveira
Lighting design: Richard Gratas & François-Xavier Gallet-Lemaitre
Scenography: Hannah Daugreilh
Painter: Loïc Niwa
Costumes: Hannah Daugreilh & Sandra Bersot
Co-production: La Compagnie Dyptik, Les Studios Dyptik, Maison De La Danse & Biennale De La Danse De Lyon, Stora Teatern – Gothenburg, La Comédie – CDN de St Etienne, Théâtre Des Bergeries – Noisy Le Sec (associate artist), IADU La Villette, CCN du Havre – Cie Massala, Théâtre Jean Lurçat – Scène Nationale d’Aubusson, Théâtre De Cusset (associate artist), Amman Contemporary Dance Festival, Théâtre Du Parc – Andrézieux-Bouthéon, Domaine De Bayssan – Béziers, Centre Culturel Athena – La Ferté Bernard, L’Avant Seine – Théâtre De Colombes, Sémaphore – Théâtre de la ville d’Irigny
Supported by: DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, Conseil Départemental de la Loire, Ville de St Etienne, ADAMI, SPEDIDAM, Conseil Départemental de Seine-St-Denis, Institut Français
World premiere: 20 September 2023, Biennale de la danse de Lyon
