Back in 2015, the Festival de Marseille hosted the Candoco Dance Company, which brings together disabled and non-disabled professional dancers who all share the same credo: creating a new way of approaching and practising dance. Their goal is to change the way audiences see performers in wheelchairs or on crutches by drawing from the fundamentals of dance, body and space and inventing new performance languages. This time the company has worked with the Australian artist Dan Daw and five dancers. Constantly blurring the boundaries between theatre and dance, Daw sees Over and Over (and over again) as a wild rave party where physical engagement is intense and where music carries us beyond the limitations of our bodies. Powerful emotions are transmitted by mutual trust and love, which alone can keep vulnerability at bay. The performers create their own joyful dance floor utopia that highlights the value, energy and presence of each person. The piece, designed as an “invitation”, lives up to its title, encouraging us to dance over and over again…
Les représentations à Marseille reçoivent le soutien du British Council.
