Remix Factory 93/23

By opening up the stage and reinventing it through a fertile dialogue with visual arts, the creation of “Factory” in 1993 was a landmark  event. Three decades later, Hervé Robbe has decided to revisit the piece, entrusting it to a new generation of performers. During a seven-week residency in 2023 at the Abbaye de Royaumont, ten young dancers and choreographers developed new participative and immersive dynamics, guided by the tutelary figures of Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer, both actors in and witnesses to the work’s genesis. Performing to Eric Sleichim’s music and his saxophone quartet Bl!ndman, they invent a “Remix” that retains the original piece’s founding desire to transform the relationship with the spectator. In an exciting collective experience based on the notions of work and play, the public and dancing bodies respond to each other around Richard Deacon’s organic sculptures. An exhilarating recreative piece that questions our contemporary perceptions as spectators.