Vif du sujet (Le) : Pas de vague avant l'éclipse

Kader Belarbi invests space and raw materials to a background of ancient customs, in association with Farid Berki.

An Etoile at the Opéra de Paris, Kader Belarbi had a go at hip hop with the choreographer Farid Berki. In Pas de vague avant l’éclipse, he explores space and raw materials. On the floor with a paper bag or performing acrobatic figures, he re-invents ritual stick dances with building site wood and revisits musical juggling or the steps of whirling dervishes. An original choreography against a background of far-off traditions and paltry urban objects.

Le Vif du sujet is a contemporary dance event of the Festival d’Avignon. Each year, a choreographer chooses four dancers who, in turn, will each ask a choreographer to create a work lasting roughly 30 minutes. These shows are filmed in full.

Source : Culture Ministery