R.onde.s

Direction: Pierre Rigal. Cast: Ismaël Belabid-Lenoir, Camille Hinsinger, David Mazon, Camilo Sarasa Molina, Maé Nayrolles, Jacob Neff, Léa Pérat, Emma Rouaix. Original music: Gwenaël Drapeau and Mélanie Chartreux. All audiences. Recommended from age 7. Duration: 1h10.

Eight strikingly colourful characters dance, to the point of losing themselves, in a joyful, almost therapeutic round! The round dance is an age-old form found in every civilisation and on every continent.

It can take the form of a children's dance, a folk dance, a sacred or incantatory ritual. It echoes the shape and course of the stars, as well as the idea of the seasons' temporal cycle.

Carried by Mélanie Chartreux and Gwenaël Drapeau's pop, trance and electroacoustic loops, eight characters seem to answer to inspirations from some mythological elsewhere, and a popular round dance takes hold of our transformed L'Usine auditorium. Enchantment guaranteed.

"The rounds stretch, shrink, expand, speed up, calm down. The dancers give these seemingly simple movements all their grace, all their tempo, their elasticity" – Le Figaro.