Programme 3 : Pas assez suédois / Not swedish enough

Dominique Brun, Latifa Laâbissi et Volmir Cordeiro ont été invités à s’emparer, avec eux, de ce riche répertoire pour l’acclimater à leurs propres préoccupations esthétiques. Forts de leurs parcours, origines, générations et univers très différents, ils sauront, sans nul doute, nous faire (re)découvrir ce formidable passé dans une approche résolument contemporaine. Elle nous permettra de saisir l’audace de cette aventure artistique qui avait réussi, en son temps, à ré-enchanter son époque.


Indicative of the 1920’s, Les Ballet Suèdois was a ballet company that could equally be seen as an art project, full of enthusiasm, optimism for the future and social discourse. During just five short years they created over twenty works collaborating with a myriad of prominent visual artists and composers. What we hope to capture is this almost frenetic interest in contemporary ideas. In 2014, Petter Jacobsson and Thomas Caley already made their first research into the Ballet’s rich past with Relâche. For this new encounter they have decided to celebrate the Les Ballet Suèdois’s centennial.  
The focus of this “soirée” is not in the reconstruction of original works but in creations that are in dialog with the company’s body of work, history and epoch. Through referencing and certain quotations we would like to immerse the public in this very dynamic time and place – Paris in the roaring 20’s. 
 
For the evening we are excited to invite three choreographers, Dominique Brun, Volmir Cordeiro and Latifa Laâbissi all with intense interests in the performative aspect of dance and an exacting relationship to the plasticity of space. In the tradition with this decadent epoch the evening promises to be a feast for all the senses.