TO DA BONE

The rebellious gaze of punks in workers’ jackets and rubber soled street shoes —  the uprisings of the past compressed in the body. Edgy and volatile, the 10 dancers of TO DA BONE crank up the tension as a hard, proud, martial dance unfolds. These young jumpers from nine different countries struggle valiantly to overcome the exhaustion of lost utopian momentum and vigour.

The French collective (LA)HORDE calls on the crazy speed of jumpstyle, a post-Internet dance, and then takes pleasure in deconstructing codes: neat, precise steps, running on the spot, quarter turns. It mobilizes on the stage dancers whose previous experience had been dancing alone in front of a camera. Together they form a fleeting, very palpable battalion. A few of the bravest break away from the platoon, prodigiously scoffing at gravity and defying endurance. With heads held high, insubordination is re-imagined on the margins of now listless revolts.

Produced by (LA)HORDE
Direction and concept Marine Brutti + Jonathan Debrouwer + Arthur Harel
Performed by Valentin Basset aka Bassardo + + Mathieu Douay aka Magii’x + Camille Dubé Bouchard aka Dubz + László Holoda aka Leslee + Kevin Martinelli aka MrCovin + Viktor Pershko aka Belir + Nick Reisinger aka Neon + Edgar Scassa aka Edx + Andrii Shkapoid aka Shkap + Damian Kamil Szczegielniak aka Leito + Michal Adam Zybura aka Zyto
Music design Aamourocean
Lighting design Patrick Riou
Lighting Assistant and stage manager Claire Dereeper
Costume design Lily Sato
Production Manager Clémence Sormani
Touring Agents Tristan Barani + Clémence Sormani
Outside eye Jean Christophe Lanquetin

Co-produced by Charleroi Danses – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles + Théâtre de la Ville de Paris + MAC – Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil + Manège de Reims – Scène Nationale de Reims + Théâtre Municipal de Porto + Pôle Sud – CDC Strasbourg + La Gaîté lyrique (Paris) + Fondation BNP Paribas + DICRéAM – Dispositif pour la Création Artistique Multimédia et Numérique (Paris) + Spedimam + Institut français – Covention Ville de Paris

With the support of Institut Français + Mairie de Paris + SACD – Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques + Cité internationale des arts (Paris) + Liberté Living Lab (Paris) +  Institut français + CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (Rachid Ouramdane – Yoann Bourgeois) + DGCA – Direction générale de la création artistique

Residencies Charleroi Danses – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles + MAC – Maison des Arts et de la culture de Créteil + Théâtre Municipal de Porto + Manège de Reims – Scène Nationale de Reims – CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble

Presented with the support of Institut Français + Service de coopération et d’action culturelle du Consulat général de France à Québec

Written by Mylène Joly
Translated by Neil Kroetsch

Premiered at Festival TransAmériques, Montreal, on May 31, 2017