Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud

Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud use the stage as a playground. With writing/ choreographic games and games of encounters, each new piece is an opportunity to explore worlds where risk-taking is equalled only by curiosity and freedom. In this way, Dub Love brings together two worlds that are completely opposite in principle: the dancing on points typical of Western classical ballet, and Jamaican sound systems. Between 19th century European Romanticism and Sixties Jamaica, the two choreographers present themselves as "transducers", offering their bodies and that of their performer as membranes stretched between two aesthetics. On stage, a wall of speakers vibrates to the sound of DJ High Elements. In confronting dancing on points with Dub, Bengolea & Chaignaud lead clichés a pretty dance...