Les sept planches de la ruse

This show was born out of Aurélien Bory’s desire to go to China to meet artists in the town of Dalian, who are the most technically accomplished in the world.

This show was born out of Aurélien Bory’s desire to go to China to meet artists in the town of Dalian, who are the most technically accomplished in the world. He wanted to work with them to compose a contemporary visual tale inspired by a game which dates back to Chinese antiquity: the tangram, or in Chinese “qi qiao ban”, which means “the seven boards of cunning”. This is a solitaire game, based seven geometrical elements: five triangles of three different sizes, a square and a parallelogram, which must be assembled to form one large square. The game’s components are manœuvred by sixteen people who stand them up, climb on them, get into them, following their changing forms, slip into a hollow cube, construct improbable and ephemeral edifices.


Source : Maison de la Danse programme