Emergency

“Emergency” is the result of a collaboration between the contemporary choreographer Jérôme Brabant and a group of free runners, New Gravity.

Emergency is the result of a collaboration between the contemporary choreographer Jérôme Brabant and a group of free runners, New Gravity. It is part of a research project on the meeting of two disciplines, contemporary dance and free running.

This collaboration sets off a reflection on their island identity. So as not to create an aesthetic piece illustrating the history of Reunion Island, Jérôme Brabant has deliberately chosen to work with young people who are moving forwards towards adulthood, and who embody the emergence of a people. 

Free running consists of acrobatic movements through urban spaces, involving risk-taking and making use of the natural objects in your path. The problem of using the space on a theatre stage for free running is overcome by the use of platforms, which give the dancers elevation with the change in levels. Their trajectories use the entire length of the stage and their momentum along the diagonals provides an explosion of their virtuosity.

The alternating rhythms give a different perception of movement by introducing moments of slowness as the group comes together downstage, breaking up the lightning speed that free running requires.

The new demands made on the body are clear for the audience to see, replacing work that is rooted lifelessly in the ground with vertical challenges. Their work is enhanced in this approach as the most impressive figures derive from a group impetus. There is a notion of solidarity in human relations: each authentic element is part of a whole and makes it more powerful through a collective drive.

The choice of music is the antithesis of the noisy world of free running. Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”, with its lively, sustained sounds, accompanies the dancers in their frenzy of running and risk-taking. The dancers set the pace in an acoustic ensemble that mirrors the solidarity that they embody.

Source : Lalanbik

More information :

https://www.lalanbik.org/

https://www.jeromebrabant.com/