Rone and the troupe of the national ballet of Marseille on the stage of the Théâtre du Chatelet, in Paris. - Châtelet Theater - Cyril Moreau

  • The electro choreography Room With A View plays until until March 14 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris.
  • "It is a horde which dances and which thinks with its fists and its feet", says of the spectacle the writer Alain Damasio.
  • The show stages an ecological, economic, societal collapse. And shows how the current generations are trying to exorcise them, notably through dance and music.

In a quarry of marble that crumbles and collapses, a horde of ravers dance frantically around a DJ. We see them give their all, "with a lost body" we say so well in the language of Molière. Later we will see them hovering carrying the DJ in the air and choreographing love-hate scenes, where the bodies attract and reject each other, mimicking some of the very raw rapes. Here is Room With A View , an analysis of the underground movements of our time by the musician Rone and the collective (La) Horde. An electro choreography given until March 14 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris.

Room With A View is the story of the spontaneous, disorderly and uncontrolled reaction of a generation faced with disaster. "We thought of this show as that of a difficult awakening of consciousness, of a march forced by the overwhelming prospect of collapse," explain Rone and (La) Horde in the introductory booklet of the show. The bodies of the dancers of the National Ballet of Marseille fly away in aerial staves, and fall so close to the edge, so close to disaster. The troop of ravers caress each other as much as they fight, as if they had no choice but to be crossed by this violence.

“The choreography meets music to tell the suffering and the legitimate anger of the present generations who seek to federate to give meaning, in the communities of celebration and combat, overwhelmed by the infinite violence of the world, which they replay in a loop , in their flesh, as if to exorcise them ”explain Rone and (La) Horde. We know that raped people sometimes prostitute themselves, in order to learn to master the trauma by replaying it.

The troupe of the national ballet of Marseille for the show Room With A View by Rone and (La) Horde, at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris. - Châtelet Theater - Aude Arago

A stone's throw that suddenly goes into a trance

“Ballet or troupe, a choreography always betrays a political vision, nolens volens , writes the science fiction author Alain Damasio, about the show. It is a horde which dances and which thinks with its fists and its feet. And who comes to challenge you, OK boomer , in a hacked hacka, where what blushes is less the skin of the breasts exposed, mercilessly, than the sudden awareness, in your soul of voyeur, that what they left, in truth, the oldest of us, to this growing generation, that's it: a dirty world that will have to be repaired ”

Coming out of Room With A View , however, we want to dance, we are filled with furious energy. And there remains this image: a stone's throw that suddenly becomes dancing. We see rebellious bodies throwing imaginary paving stones at absent law enforcement agencies. Bodies of rage, which swing fingers of honor, arms outstretched, whose faces tense. And then gradually the anger changes into dance, and the bodies touch and embrace. Channeled bodies. It's subtle. It is a slow transformation. In the same movement of life we ​​pass from rage to love. And we say that from this chaos, something will be born.

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