DEERS

A grid on the floor. On stage, a woman and a man. We are given a dance "both simple and complicated" to behold, according to its creator Hervé Robbe. The "Deers" duet is the latest piece in a cycle of performances of variable formats and geographies, named In Extenso, Danses en Nouvelles and initiated in 2018, in partnership with the CNDC in Angers. Like the program's previous pieces, it is set to music by American composer Charles Ives and original scores by Jérôme Combier. From four to sixteen performers, the choreographer reduces the number to two, while inscribing in space the ghostly memory of a community now reduced to its simplest expression. With movements that sometimes borrow from the energy of krump, the dancers confront their respective otherness, imagining themselves as a deer and a doe, to explore their points of convergence as well as their stranger side. Between lightness, gravitas and presence, this is a moment to discover and share, like a letter personally addressed to each of us. Deers is the fourth part of the In extenso, Danses en nouvelle program.