Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me is an attempt to portray a generation that is rebelling and seeks to confront us with the violence and major challenges of the world to come. This solo explores urgency across the boundaries of the personal and the collective. It stems from research into the intersection of poetic and political issues, whilst remaining first and foremost a choreographic work in which physicality and embodiment take centre stage. The professional workshop led by Benjamin Kahn will explore various questions underlying this piece and the trilogy of which it forms part. The aim is to share creative practices with participants in order to understand the themes of these works and to provide tools for choreography and choreographic composition. An immersion in Benjamin Kahn’s choreographic universe, where the body becomes a vehicle for emotion, tension and transformation. Through the study of choreographic vocabulary and language, participants will be invited to explore how movement can be stretched, extrapolated and reappropriated, individually and collectively, to the point of redefining the space and the narrative it carries.
Benjamin Kahn
Benjamin Kahn is a dancer and choreographer. He studied dramaturgy and theatre at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Conservatoire de Rennes, and is a graduate of ESAC. Viewing dance and choreography as powerful political tools, he is particularly interested in the construction and deconstruction of how we perceive individual and collective bodies. Drawing on the interdisciplinary nature of his background and the richness of his encounters with unique performers, he creates works that combine text, precise choreography, and powerful soundscapes and lighting to explore societal issues. Between 2019 and 2023, he created a trilogy of solo pieces: Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified…, Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me and The Blue Hour, exploring projections onto bodies, the gaze, and the link between the intimate and the collective. His next piece, Focu Meu, will premiere in May 2026 at the One Dance festival in Plovdiv (Bulgaria).