Hammer

Title: Hammer Subtitle: GöteborgsOperans Danskompani « I don't care what an Ekman piece is supposed to look like. I try to keep my course. In the same way, I try to find the most accurate expression for each of the performers in a show.

» Alexander Ekman As part of its European tour, the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani presents Hammer at the Théâtre du Châtelet.

Performed for the very first time in France, Hammer is the third creation by choreographer Alexander Ekman for this Swedish contemporary dance company, under the artistic direction of Katrín Hall.

Equally at home working on the oeuvre of his compatriot Ingmar Bergman as with Alicia Keys, invited worldwide by the most prestigious cultural institutions, the Swedish choreographer has, in a little under a decade, established himself as one of the most inventive creators of the present day, and he was also entrusted with staging the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

From museum to opera, by way of theatre or cinema, Alexander Ekman plays across every register, with, as his lowest common denominator, a deep sense of wit and a great humanity. Hammer was created in 2022, for and by the dancers of the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani.

Hailing from twenty different countries, the thirty-one performers serve a monumental work, conceived as a fresco in two acts that questions, not without humour, the wanderings of contemporary societies.

From order to chaos, from the individual to the collective, from the sixties to today, Hammer examines the role of technology as much as that of ideology, around a resolutely humanist stance.