Baptiste Cazaux + Dorothée Munyaneza (Day 1)

Between meditation and rave: Baptiste Cazaux dances towards release and balance.

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In this explosive solo performance - or do the six loudspeakers count as dancers too? - the French choreographer and dancer Baptiste Cazaux seeks out a literal break from the pressure of capitalism and the dispiriting state of the world. When the isolation of the pandemic lockdowns plunged him into depression, he discovered that both meditation and DJing helped him to regain his balance: one by allowing him to let off steam, and the other by returning him to the here and now.

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In his previous creation, meditation on pretty fast music from 2021, Cazaux was already searching for the tension between the stillness of guided meditation and the trance of unrestrained dance. Here he continues his investigation into the intersection between the two in an energetic duet with six loudspeakers. Through a movement language borrowed from raves and rock concerts, he seeks out exhaustion, and the emotional calm that follows.

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