enfant – Holland Festival

“Children are the hostages of adults,” French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard famously wrote. It’s the central idea informing enfant, Boris Charmatz’ latest creation. A group of children is on stage. Nine adults dance around the children’s motionless bodies. They lift them and hold them, they push them and pull them. The dancers’ actions confront us with the emotions, the dreams and the nightmares from our own childhood and our own attitudes towards children today. Charmatz raises the question of how to re-engage with the child within us, with our humanity.

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choreography Boris Charmatz interpretation Eleanor Bauer, Nuno Bizarro, Matthieu Burner, Olga Dukhovnaya, Julien Gallée-Ferré, Lénio Kaklea, Maud Le Pladec, Thierry Micouin, Mani A. Mungai, groep kinderen light design Yves Godin sound design Olivier Renouf machines Artefact, Frédéric Vannieuwenhuyse, Alexandre Diaz bagpipes Erwan Keravec assistant Julien Jeanne costumes Laure Fonvieille voice Dalila Khatir orchestration software Luccio Stiz general production management Antoine Guilloux show leader Max Potiron, François Aubry lighting design Arnaud Lavisse sound engineer Pierre Routin production Musée de la danse coproduction Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes), La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Théâtre de la Ville–Paris, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Siemens Stiftung with exceptional support by la Ville de Rennes, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le Conseil régional de Bretagne with the support of Institut Français, la Ville de Rennes thanks to Or Avishay, Pierre Mathiaut, Julia Cima, Raimund Hoghe

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