What power can joy unleash in a world that is full of crises and uncertainty? For the Brazilian choreographer Ana Pi, joy is not a harmless emotion, but a practice of alertness, a means of creating communities and testing new plans for the future.
In her new work ATOMIC JOY, she joins forces with eight young dancers from the Paris region whose dance practice is based on street and club styles to devise a pulsating stage space filled with the energy of dance battles. Gestures circulate through the group, being picked up, transformed and passed on, and the result is a choreography that tells of connections and collective movement.
Its starting points are the dance practices of the transatlantic African diaspora, in which knowledge, memory and resistance are carried within the body across generations. To music specially created for this piece by composer Christophe Chassol a multi-faceted movement vocabulary emerges, combining technical precision with playful improvisation. ATOMIC JOY is a thrilling celebration of communal dancing and an ode to joy as a political and social power.
Infos
- Duration: approx. 50 minutes
- Language: No language skills required
- Mo. 02.11.: 19:30h Introduction, followed by Meet the Artists
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Direction, conception, choreography, dramaturgy, costumes, and objects :: Ana Pi
Dancers : Naïs Haidar, Anna Yvray, Manèkè Som, Hachim Biiskui, Amin Hasnaoui, Ibrahima « Ibrah » Biteye, Celia « Babyface » Bonus, Kévin « Kid Chroma » Plesel
Musical composition : CHASSOL
Lighting design and technical direction : Bia Kaysel
Consultant in historiography and dance criticism : Marie Pons
Production administration : Jenny Suarez
Production and distribution : NA MATA LAB
Co-Produced with the support of Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (FR), Pinacoteca de São Paulo (BR), AMANT center for contemporary art (USA), Fonds Haplotès (FR), Caisse des Dépôts (FR), Association Les Bazis (FR), Charleroi danse (BE), CND Centre National de la Danse (FR), La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne (FR), DRAC Île-de-France (FR), Jerimum Ideias sponsored by CAIXA in the offi cial program of the France–Brazil Season/Série Danse, Institut Français.
An event in the frame of Tanzfestival Rhein-Main. Tanzfestival Rhein-Main, a project of Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett, is made possible by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and is funded by the Department of Culture and Science of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture, Aventis Foundation and Dr. Marschner Foundation. Sponsered by Energieversorgung Offenbach AG (EVO).
