Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival

An evening of works from the French dance collective (LA)HORDE and the Ballet national de Marseille, choreographed by Lucinda Childs,  Lasseindra Ninja, and (LA)HORDE. Tempo Vicino, Mood, Weather is Sweet and Concerto are set to an eclectic mix of music from John Adams, Philip Glass, Janet Jackson, Boddi Satva and others.

A piece created by Dimitri Chamblas and Kim Gordon and performed by nine dancers, five electric guitars and five amplifiers, the creation takes shape under a luminous zeppelin where silhouettes emerge and disappear. These shadows are the forgotten ones of the great metropolises: prisoners, elders, unproductive ghosts, the neglected, the indecisive. Rendered visible in this device itself ready to disappear and embodied by dancers with precise movements, they wander, hesitate or suddenly assert a vital impulse, display an attempt, repeat it, share it. In these emergences, in this collective isolation, telepathy and intuition maintain communication. Between the lines, under the skin, the driving force of the future and of the living continues to circulate and resist.

Room with a View a large-scale, multidisciplinary performance featuring 20 dancers, shares a name with the internationally acclaimed music producer Rone’s fifth studio album, and was created during a ten-day carte blanche residency at Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet

In this rare solo performance by Boris Charmatz, the award-winning French dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, explores the idea of somnolence — the feeling of being on the brink of sleep.