Turba

Turba refers to a multitude, a huge population, confusion and turmoil: diversity of species, diversity of individuals, diversity of the parts that make up an individual.

Turba refers to a multitude, a huge population, confusion and turmoil: diversity of species, diversity of individuals, diversity of the parts that make up an individual. This is the place of fluctuating figures and movements, ceaselessly changing, where transient forms of elements create imperceptible rhythms; the place where individual subjects can fit fleetingly into gaps in the social code, or the code of nature. A place of turbulence. 
No two individuals are exactly alike: resemblances and differences, compositions and decompositions, alternating and attracting, disturbances which form eddies, creating multiple durations and rhythms at a pace which is anything but brittle and polished. The text of Lucretius which underlies “Turba” constantly reminds us that nature is an infinite sum of elements that do not add up to a whole, a power in the name of which things exist one by one, with no possibility of unification which will express everything together, an affirmation of the multiple and the diverse as sources of joy.


Source : Biennale de la Danse