[Biennale de la danse 2021] Christophe Haleb - "Entropic Now" | Interview

Entropic Now is a project examining the stories of young people in movement, through an inclusive form of dance and
choreographic languages built across different cities, in collaboration with teens and young adults from various backgrounds who exist in diverse physical states and modes of coming together. 

Entropic Now is a performative experiment, an immersive space where young people from Lyon, Valence, Amiens, Paris, Marseille, Havana and Fort de France take us on a journey via documentary films; a danced and performed installation piece that invites us to explore their ways of life, their uses of space, their fears, loves, social frustrations, and their urgent desire to speak. 

This is a polyphonic composition of images and sounds, bodies and presences, cities and movements, dreams and friendships that draw us closer to the vibrancy of youth, its transformations, commitments, struggles and perceptions. “Labyrinthian in form and spirit, the piece plunges us into the electrifying world of tomorrow’s adults, into the heart of their dreams, their plurality, close enough to feel the pulse of their demands, from petty quarrels to grand shared struggles. The experience is at once mysterious, fed by the imaginary, and yet very down-to-earth, underground, urban. From the start, Entropic Now raises the questions which haunt the youth of our contemporary societies, presenting them in a non-discursive, dreamlike form, captured in performances and film.”

Mélanie Drouère