RACHID OURAMDANE / BALLET DU GRAND THÉÂTRE DE GENÈVE
Outsider
1h10
With twenty-one dancers from the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and four extreme sports athletes, Rachid Ouramdane offers a performance that works on the image of the swarm. A horizontal movement joined together with Julius Eastman’s hypnotic music.
For several years now, Rachid Ouramdane has been focusing his writing on moving crowds, through works that question community and the place within it that everybody is looking for. After rallying the Ballet de l’Opéra of Lyon (Tout autour, 2014) and the Ballet of Lorraine (Murmuration, 2017), the choreographer takes on twenty-one performers from the Ballet du Grand Théâtre of Geneva, as well as four extreme sports athletes, for a creation where different fields intersect. Outsider works on the image of the swarm and that very instant when the movement’s horizontality is in danger. The work questions the breaking point that a dancer or an athlete can exceed. A choreography around risks of fall and broken lines, conversing with the repetitive music patterns of Julius Eastman, a little-known figure of 1970s New York frenzy and of minimalism. It acts as a throbbing pulsation that guides the performers’ grouped moves. Like a swarm struggling against the game of lines created by the stage’s volumes and the bright scenography.
With
With the support of
Choreography Rachid Ouramdane Set design Sylvain Giraudeau Costumes Gwladys Duthil Lighting Stéphane Graillot Choreographic assistant Mayalen Otondo Music Julius Eastman (Evil nigger and Gay guerilla) Contributors Hamza Benlabied, Airelle Caen, Clotaire Fouchereau Dancers of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Yumi Aizawa, Jared Brown, Adelson Carlos, Anna Cenzuales, Zoé Charpentier, Quintin Cianci, Oscar Comesaña Salgueiro, Diana Dias Duarte, Armando Gonzalez Besa, Zoe Hollinshead, Julio León Torres, Mason Kelly, Ricardo Macedo, Emilie Meeus, Léo Merrien, Stefanie Noll, Juan Perez Cardona, Luca Scaduto, Sara Shigenari, Geoffrey Van Dyck, Nahuel Vega, Madeline Wong
Highliners Nathan Paulin, Tania Monier, Louise Lenoble, Daniel Laruelle Musical recording Sub Rosa with performers Melaine Dalibert, Stéphane Ginsburgh, Nicolas Horvath, Wilhem Latchoumia
World premiere May 2024 – Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
Music recording: Grand Théâtre de Genève, performance May 4, 2024
Conducted by Stéphane Ginsburgh
Pianists: Adrián Fernández García, Pilar Huerta Gómez, Lucie Madurell, Luca Moschini
Coproduction Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse ; La Villette
With the support of DANCE REFLECTIONS by Van Cleef & Arpels
Practical information
Grande Halle
Metro
Line 5 - Porte de Pantin station
Tramway
Line 3b - Porte de Pantin station
Bus
Bus 75, 151 - Porte de Pantin stop
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
Parking
Cité des Sciences
- Trois parkings disponibles ici
- Petite restauration sur place avant le spectacle dans la Grande Halle.
- Plusieurs offres de restauration dans le parc avant ou après le spectacle, à découvrir ICI.
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