Die Welle (La Vague) [transmission 2019]

Extract reproduced by 66 dancers from groups participating in the French National Encounters of Danse en amateur et répertoire (2018/2019). Transmission by Marie-Charlotte Chevalier, Axelle Locatelli. Coordination Marion Bastien. Presented on 26 May 2019, Prairie du Triangle, Parc de La Villette, Paris

The dance work when it was created

Die Welle [La Vague] 

Firstly produced: 1930

Choreography: Albrecht Knust

Dance work for 64 performers

The project

The Wave, created in Germany in 1930 by Albrecht Knust, one of Rudolf Laban’s earliest collaborators, is a choral dance for sixty-four people. Through waves, ebbs and flows, and ripples, this dance invites to take part in a collective experience of interrelated listening and tuning by using simple movements such as walking, skipping and pliés.

The 2019-edition dancers worked on The Wave to bring the French National Encounters of Danse en amateur et répertoire to a close with a collective practice.