Murmuration

«The  misleadingly sketched-in vocabulary I have been developing for several  years for my work is based on an accumulation of choreographic themes  knit together at very high speed, creating a kind of dancing which is  hard to take in visually and which is therefore a metaphor for life  itself. The dancing reveals the uniqueness of each person onstage and  highlights how we each need to deal on a daily basis in order to find  where we stand relative to others. This dance concentrate invents a  heightened, tight environment in which the relationship between the  individual and the group is constantly changing. Declaring one’s  uniqueness and having the courage to own one’s differences seems to me  to be essential in this time when we are scared by the Other, when he or  she is unfairly stigmatized.

The crisis into which I place these bodies reveals the dancers’  ability to react on a stage where everything is constantly accelerating.  We see a collective intelligence emerging from these protagonists,  bringing solutions to ‘extreme’ situations or moments of chaos, when the  collective only brings us saturation and blockages.

The spontaneity of the dancers’ movements toward each other creates a  sort of concentrate of humanity in which we glimpse fleeting bits of  choreographic themes. It is this material which I try to grasp to invent  my dance, where a shape appears only to be erased and immediately  replaced by another shape, so fast that you are not sure you actually  saw it happen.

The musical work of Jean-Baptiste Julien reinforces this sensation of  overflow and acceleration barrelling through the dancers, creating a  world crisis. Once again I will be trying working through a heterogenous  abundance of actions – to reflect what I believe to the logic of our  social cohesion, our ability to copy with all these differences.» Rachid Ouramdane

Source : Ballet de Lorraine