Three dancers pose on stage under colorful lights, wearing athletic clothes. Two face opposite directions, back-to-back, while the third dances in the background. Their movements appear expressive and synchronized.

Prep School: Nexus de l’adoration

Spectacle, excess, exuberance – more is more in Joris Lacoste’s new queer pop liturgical ritual. It’s not a musical but it’s not not a musical – get ready to be moved.

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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.

  • Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, editors, Queer Nightlife (2021).
  • Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010).
  • Joris Lacoste, Comment Cela Est-il Arrivé? (1997). 
  • José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009).

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Interview with Joris Lacoste

What has always interested me in theatre is less the idea of narration than that of action: making things exist in the present, making them active, even when they come from the past. 

FESTIVAL D'AVIGNON | JAN 2025(opens in a new tab)

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A performer kneels on a platform with arms open, surrounded by colorful beams of light and mist, creating a dramatic, vibrant stage effect.
  • Fri Nov 20 – Sat Nov 21

Joris Lacoste: Nexus de l’adoration

A liturgy for no religion.

  • Crossing the Line Festival
  • International
  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Transdisciplinary
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