Dressed in jeans, T-shirts and caps pulled low, the dancers adopt the look of football ultras: scarves emblazoned with team names from around the world, exuberant chants and collective gestures—all woven into carefully constructed choreography and constantly evolving scenography. The piece builds into a collective explosion that recalls crowd movements and public demonstrations. Voices rise in song, joy or anger; bodies surge and react to every goal, mourn defeat, or pray for luck. Everything becomes a pretext for transforming the fervour of the grandstands into a coded, collective and identity-driven physical language.
The sense of exaltation reaches its peak in this striking allegory, where electrifying video images—drawn from match footage, protests and uprisings—interweave continuously with a sound collage of sports anthems, Middle Eastern music and pop hits. Drawing on his background in graffiti and breakdance, Moritz Ostruschnjak deftly taps into a global obsession—football—to denounce “a society that submits to the power of images, [that] pays homage to stars and populists,” through a visual, physical and sonic maelstrom that literally holds us spellbound.
Les représentations à Marseille reçoivent le soutien du Goethe-Institut et du Fonds international pour la danse - Nationales Performance Netz financé par la Commission à la culture et aux médias de la République fédérale d'Allemagne.
