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Gravel Works
Une performance qui tient autant du spectacle de danse que du show rock et du stand-up et qui questionne avec lucidité la place de l’artiste dans la société.
Sex (a bit), rock, beer, and chips: ‘Gravel Works’, in its current – or ‘provisionally finished’ – form, as Gravel would say, is a sort of display case for moods, humour, bodily states, musical colours, condensed choreography, pop songs, personalities and pleasant irrelevances. A concert form of the ‘best of’ this oeuvre, with an elastic temporality, which has begun in 2006 and has had a number of variation depending on the number of available artists and the organisation of autonomous units gradually created. In short or long form – à la carte or set menu – it has gained traction at such venues as Studio 303, Performance Mix in Soho, the event The Art (prononcez dehors) at the first OFF.T.A, Tangente, FuseBox Festival in Austin, TransAmériques Festival, Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales in Seine-Saint-Denis, Festival Nouvelles in Strasbourg and, now, the Maison de la Danse in Lyon. A Möbius Strip of a piece that allows the viewer to travel between the inside and outside of the show or, as Gravel himself suggests, between the head, the heart and the genitals – in whatever order suits you!
