Dance
(LA)HORDE × Rone with the Ballet national de Marseille
Room with a View
A wild, frenzied mass collides and
leaps into a united front to question the future
Pursuing their concept of “post-internet dance,” (LA)HORDE urgently and insatiably incorporate contemporary culture into their work, and have continued to receive countless calls for diverse collaborations from big names and brands such as Madonna, Spike Jonze, and Burberry. Hailing from different fields, the three members of the collective have collaborated with Rone, a leading figure in French electronic music, and the Ballet national de Marseille (of which the (LA)HORDE members are directors) to create Room with a View, a hymn to liberation.
The setting is a marble quarry in an apocalyptic landscape. Carved out in one section is a white room where a rave party is about to reach its climax. As the hedonism comes to an end, the frustration and sadness the young people are burdened with erupts into violence, and couples eventually end up hurting each other in desperation. As they stand amid the carnage, they gradually start to acquire gestures of solidarity and resistance.
The surging energy emanating from the Ballet national de Marseille’s nineteen dancers from eleven countries inextricably intertwines with Rone’s music that runs throughout the piece. What shape will the hope (LA)HORDE reveal to us take?
10.5 (Sat) 18:00 ♡
10.6 (Sun) 18:00 ★
★ Post-show talk
♡ Childcare Service (reservation required 7 days before each performance)
Duration: 70 min
⚠️ Recommended for ages 12 and above. This show contains several scenes that some viewers may find extreme or disturbing.
☞ Workshop
Date: 10.4 (Fri) 11:00-13:00
Venue: Multi-purpose Hall, KYOTO ART CENTER
Facilitators: Nathan Gombert, Aya Sato
Fee: ¥1,000
Capacity: 25 (first come, first served)
Reserve through the form. [Registration is now closed]
Advance tickets:
Adult ¥5,500
Youth (25 and under), Students ¥3,000
High School Students & Younger ¥1,000
Pair ¥10,500 (Advance tickets only)
Day tickets are the same price as advance tickets.
Seating: Reserved
(LA)HORDE
Marseille (France)
Founded in 2013, (LA)HORDE is a collective of three artists: Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel. Together they challenge the codes of various artistic disciplines, particularly within performing arts and contemporary art. Their exploration of the new dynamics of circulation and representation of dance and the body that develop online led them to work on the concept of “post-internet dances”. Since 2019, they are artistic directors of the Ballet national de Marseille and create choreographic works, films, video installations, and performances that focus on the body in movement. (LA)HORDE questions the politics of dance and maps diverse choreographic forms of popular uprising, from raves to traditional dance to jumpstyle. Through diverse formats, (LA)HORDE questions the almost infinite serendipity that this new territory provides and proposes multiple perspectives on the uprisings of the communities they work with in a heterarchical way.
Rone
Paris (France)
Born in 1980 and based in Paris, Erwan Castex a.k.a. Rone is a French electronic music producer and artist. Since the start of his career in 2007 Rone has sought to cross the boundaries of electronic music and has collaborated with many contemporary French and international artists from different fields including writer Alain Damasio, the Ballet national de Marseille directed by the collective (LA)HORDE, and film directors Jacques Audiard, Frédéric Farrucci and Spike Jonze. His versatility, which permeate his six studio albums to date, has made Rone a key figure in the electronic music scene and earned him major awards such as a César for best original music for the soundtrack of feature film, the Cannes Soundtrack award for best film score and a Prix des Indés for best live show.
Artistic Concept: Rone & (LA)HORDE (Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer,Arthur Harel)
Music: Rone
Direction and Choreography: (LA)HORDE (Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel)
With the dancers of Ballet national de Marseille: Sarah Abicht, Nina-Laura Auerbach, Alida Bergakker, Joao Castro, Titouan Crozier, Timothy Firmin, Myrto Georgiadi, Nathan Gombert, Eddie Hookham, Jonatan Jorgensen, Nonoka Kato, Yoshiko Kinoshita, Amy Lim, Aya Sato, Paula Tato Horcajo, Elena Valls Garcia, Nahimana Vandenbussche, Antoine Vander Linden, Pierpalo Consentino, Luca Völkel
Artistic Assistant: Julien Ticot
Stage Design: Julien Peissel
Lighting Design: Eric Wurtz
Lighting Assistant: Gaspard Juan
Sound Engineer: Vincent Philippart
Costume Stylist: Salomé Poloudenny
Costume Assistant: Sandra Pomponio
Hair Design: Charlie Le Mindu
Physical Preparation: Waskar Coello Chavez
Rehearsal Coach: Valentina Pace
Stage Director: Julien Parra
Stage Technicians: Cécile Jonget-Mangaretto, Sébastien Mathé, Antoine Cahana
Commissioned by Théâtre du Châtelet
In agreement with Décibels Production and Infiné
Co-production: Théâtre du Châtelet,Ballet national de Marseille et Grand Théâtre de Provence. The CCN Ballet national de Marseille – direction (LA)HORDE receives the support of DRAC PACA, Ministère de la Culture, Ville de Marseille and BNP-Paribas foundation.
Supported by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan｜Japan Arts Council, Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa
Under the auspices of Embassy of France in Japan / Institut français du Japon
Co-presented by Kyoto Experiment and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
[Room with a View], co-presented by Kyoto Experiment and Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels in the frame of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival in Kyoto and Saitama (10/4-11/16).
