Carte Blanche à Mehdi Kerkouche

Mehdi Kerkouche, choreography | Lucie Antunes, original music Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux | Éric Quilleré, director of dance Dancers from the Centre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne | EMKA A distinctive figure on the contemporary dance scene, having taken his first steps in hip-hop before going on to invent his own choreographic language, Mehdi Kerkouche develops work that puts the collective at centre stage.

s and 360, the Opéra National de Bordeaux gives him free rein to imagine an unprecedented encounter between the dancers of the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux and those of his own company.

Two ways of writing with the body, two traditions of movement, brought together in a single journey carried by the electronic textures of Lucie Antunes's music.

In this choral fresco inspired by the Odyssey, the collective shapes gesture to offer a contemporary rendering of the themes running through Homer's tale: the question of the journey and the return, as well as war, hardship and love.

An epic form of writing, in which bodies tell the story of humanity's eternal cycle of beginning again. Coproduction Opéra National de Bordeaux, CCN de Créteil et Val-de-Marne / EMKA