After Hannibal

How can we materialize the bond between two dancers? Beyond fantasies and projections, how can we give form to everything that settles, that is transmitted, and that circulates in space when bodies move together? To explore this relationship, which is both intangible and intimate, Marie Goudot and Michaël Pomero drew on their own experiences as a couple and as performers. Seeking to produce an immersive experience of this attachment, they allowed voices to influence the creation of movement, guided by Julien Monty's dramaturgical vision. Poet Gilles Amalvi and performer Christine De Smedt guide and redraw the trajectory of their gestures through words. Eyes wide shut, eyes closed but wide open to interiority, they materialize an image of the bond—a music of attachment. In this quartet for two bodies and two voices, the slightest sign makes us aware of the way in which bodies move in unison, slide, fall, get up again—dancing beyond appearances.

Marie Goudot

Dancer and choreographer Marie Goudot has worked as a performer with many choreographers, including Maurice Béjart, Russell Maliphant, François Laroche-Valière, Ula Sickle and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker – whom she has also accompanied as a collaborator on a dozen creations. In 2005, together with Julien Monty and Michael Pomero, she founded the choreographic laboratory LOGE22, based on their collective work, and the artistic platform SPIDER. Goudot is also a teacher, and she participates in P.A.R.T.S.’s pedagogical programs, and teaches at the CNDSMD and Impulstanz.

Michael Pomero

Michael Pomero is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. He began his career with Maurice Béjart before joining Lyon, John Jasperse and then Russell Maliphant. He collaborated with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker on seven pieces and various Rosas projects between 2006 and 2023, and co-founded LOGE22 and the SPIDER artistic platform. A member of the faculty at P.A.R.T.S., he teaches composition and conducts research on diversity. Co-founder of YOUNGSTERS (2022), he co-created Ghost Trance Sessions (2024) and is part of the creative team for Partager le vide as artistic and production advisor.

Julien Monty

Julien Monty has worked as a dancer with Ballet Preljocaj and Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon. Since 2010, he has been working with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. He teaches contemporary dance at the Lyon CNSMD.

Christine De Smedt

Christine De Smedt is a choreographer and dancer whose work explores collaboration, dialogue and duration through an approach based on research and questioning modes of production. A former member of ballets C de la B and coordinator at P.A.R.T.S, she collaborates with Eszter Salamon, Myriam van Imschoot, Mette Ingvartsen and Xavier Le Roy. Her project L’inconnu (with Liza Baliasnaja and Theo Livesey) questions the latent violence of society.

Gilles Amalvi

Gilles Amalvi, writer, dance critic and sound designer, explores the link between text and sound. Author of Une fable humaine and AïE! BOUM, he develops readings and sound performances. Formerly a writer associated with the Musée de la Danse, he writes for the Festival d'Automne, the CN D, the Ballet de Lyon and various choreographers. He also collaborates as a dramaturg and sound designer with Emmanuelle Huynh, Pol Pi, Antoine Cegara and Ola Maciejewska.