young public Emmanuel Eggermont and Robyn Orlin

In the context of Twice, Emmanuel Eggermont and Robyn Orlin, two choreographers from universes with very different aesthetics, have worked for the first time on the conception of a piece for a young audience. Performed by the same duet of dancers, these two scores form both a programme which is both sensitive and committed, reflecting two ways of approaching the world, while dancing and sharing it. In La méthode des phosphènes, Emmanuel Eggermont let himself be guided by the luminous phenomena that form on the surface of the retina, so as to imagine a dance which is as fluid and ephemeral as a coloured impression. Dreamers of transitory worlds, the dancers follow this luminous shimmering like a score, an imaginary trace generating movement. Faithful to the intransigence that characterises her, the South African choreographer Robyn Orlin has decided to take on Otherness and the phenomena of violence and rejection which it creates, by addressing those who are its first victims: children and adolescents, very quickly confronted with the question of discrimination. In order to be them, we must be us... operates a transformation of the attention and perception of otherness through the comprehension of our own inwardness: “So as to be them, we have to be ourselves.”