Le Festin

Se déroulant par phases rapides en des tableaux successifs qui s’enchevêtrent, Le Festin interroge les mécanismes de notre société de consommation « qui engloutit tout » et ce quotidien « fatal » et « répétitif » auquel les hommes se soumettent.

Around a large table, the “spectator guests” are invited to take their seats right up beside the dance. “A dance topside and underside, made and remade, written and rewritten” in the words of Claude Brumachon, who has sought in this show to “plunge the public into the heart of the matter”, to experiment with it a proximity bordering on promiscuity. “Be with the skin, under the skin and feel the respiration, the breathing, the breath! Feel (…) the quality of movement that flows, with in your ears the sound wave of the echo of the fleeing gesture.” 

Unfurling in rapid phases in a succession of entangled tableaux, Le Festin questions the mechanisms of our consumer society “that devours everything” and that “fatal” and “repetitive” daily life to which people submit. In this dinner where the menu is alive, Claude Brumachon delivers up to the public the dancers “in the state of things” “goods ready to be consumed”. 

“The table is served and cleared. My dish: my dancer. Guests whose only meal is the raw energy of an artist in action. The action of the gift of self, the offering of one’s life, of one’s body, in a multitude of instants dissected and mixed.”