LEX

LEX plays with dance codes, selling dancers at the end of the show ! The purpose is to visit behind the scenes and to discover what makes a dance piece.

LEX flaunts the codes of contemporary dance, even going as far as auctioning off the four performers at the end of the show! The piece aims to explore the backstage of the show, to dissect laws and mechanisms with irony and amusement. We watch, for example, a long series of filmed auditions of dancers, one of whom says that their “father is the director of the Théâtre de la Ville”, another who says they are “up for anything”, etc.

Then, through a series of imposed exercises, the four dancers take turns to play at being the most moving, the most beautiful, the most physical, etc.

The development process of the show here is designed as a critical act of artistic production, where the laws of the show are called into question.

The piece exhibits its own mechanisms, its own underbelly, everything that usually remains hidden from the eyes of the spectator. LEX is therefore both an exhibition of the production ‘secrets’ of a piece and a ‘real piece’.

This initiative turns out to be a joyful one, which derides the easy, hackneyed rhetoric of contemporary dance.

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Updating: July 2014