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Catching Lion Needs A Thousand Dogs

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Creation 2024

In a scenographic space littered with remnants of cabaret codes, as if stripped of their original dimensions, the "stage beasts" of this community are exposed through the political and aesthetic filters of the post-war era to today's internet influencers.
The choreographic duo have created an immersive and engaging new show, rich in the diversity of its performers, and transpose what's left of Dada into today's world to create a resolutely contemporary foundation that embodies the contradictions of our society.

Catching lion needs a thousand dogs'' is an artistic zone of freedom, where creatures invite themselves onto the stage to share their doubts, their courage, their desires and, above all, their dreams.... A new cabaret-politics, as Berthold Brecht might have dreamed it, where all points of view on the world and the archetypes that surround us produce a sense of the common. Inspired by the Cabaret Voltaire of 1916, which gave birth to the Dada movement and the principles of Dadaism, which nearly a century later remains as relevant as ever. Born of a profound rejection of war and the armament society, iconoclastically revealing the bankruptcy of civilization, it advocates confusion and absolute doubt, and extols the virtues of spontaneity, movement and joie de vivre. Utopian dream or daydream, the stage machinery will be stripped bare, with removable floorboards, dressing rooms and backstage areas on stage, and the public taking over the space with the company, to experience dance in a different way.... Like a jukebox of humanity, the absurdity of the world and our daily lives will be brought to light in all its immersive, generous and festive glory...

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Lucie Gagneux - Eric Poulin

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Production

Production: SINE QUA NON ART
Coproduction: O.A.R.A - Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine,
La Coursive - Scène Nationale de la Rochelle,
VIADANSE - Centre Chorégraphique National de Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Ballet-du-Rhin Centre Chorégraphique National Mulhouse,
La Passerelle - Scène Nationale - St Brieuc,
Scène Nationale de Bayonne et du Sud-Aquitain,
Malandain Ballet Biarritz - Centre Chorégraphique National de Nouvelle-Aquitaine en Pyrénées-Atlantiques,
Opéra de Limoges
Partner : KLAP - Maison pour la Danse - Marseille

Credits

Concept - Choreography - Set design - Costumes: Christophe Béranger and Jonathan Pranlas-Descours


Created in close collaboration with:
Yohann Baran (Fr)

Sarah Deppe (Be)
Vincent Clavaguera(Fr)
Ramiro Erburu (Arg)
Alejandro Fusterguillen (Sp)
Florence Gengoul (Fr)
Julie Laventure (Fr)
Yasminee Lepe (Ch)
Colas Lucot (Fr)
Lucille Mansa (Fr)
Max Makowski (Pl)
Marius Moguiba (Ci)
Sakiko Oishi (Jp)
Jonathan Pranlas-Descours (Fr)
Anthony Roques (Fr)


Musical composition and dramaturgy
: Julia Suero (Arg)
Dramaturgy:
Georgina Kakoudaki (Gr)
Lighting design:
Olivier Bauer
Sound engineering: Pierre Hébras
Administration: Denis Forgeron

‍Stagiaire: Cyprien Boone, Lino Jaricot, Hugo Hagen
Acknowledgements: Stéphane Chaperon