En fanfaaare! / With a Baaang!

A piece for 10 dancers and a part of the audience immersed on stage

This performance would arrive with flair, like a boisterous serenade at dawn, rousing the world from its slumber. Likely originating from a distant night, WITH A BAAANG! bursts forth into the iconic “Queen of the Night” aria from Mozart’s Magic Flute, sung in a whistled register. This rendition pierces the silence with its percussive and intensely expressive timing. Mouths agape, diaphragms engaged, the aria loops tirelessly, jolting bodies awake, making them cry, return to sleep, and awaken again. The bodies respond to each other like ricochets, with movements before sneezes, false alarms, pre-movements, and pre-jumps. These actions irresistibly lead to swaying, swinging, tossing, shaking, grounding themselves, quivering spines, and trembling in unison—a collective shiver in the early winter morning, when the mist still lingers.

 

> TOUR DATES <

premieres
• March 4-5, 2025 –  Maison de la Culture d’Amiens (fr)
24-25 tour
• March 8, 2025 – Festival Le Grand Bain, Le Gymnase-CDCN, Roubaix (fr)
• Mars 15, 2025 – Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne, Théâtre Jean Vilar, Vitry-sur-Seine (fr)
25-26 tour
• October 2-3-4, 2025 – Festival Transforme, Le Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris (fr)
• October 16-17, 2025 – Le Lieu Unique, Nantes (fr)
• November 18, 2025 – Théâtre du Beauvaisis, Beauvais, (fr)
• November 21, 2025 – Festival Next, BUDA, Kortrijk (be)
• January 12-13, 2026 – Festival Transforme, La Comédie de Clermont, Clermont-Ferrant (fr)
• April 2-3, 2026 – Festival Transforme, Les Subs (fr)
• May 28-29-30, 2026 – Festival Transforme, Théâtre national de Bretagne, Rennes (fr)

 

> PRESS SELECTION <

DANSER Canal historique, • Fabien Rivière, avril 2025

La Terrasse, • Bélinda Mathieu, 14 février 2025

Danser Canal historique, • Thomas Han, mars 2025

La Terrasse, Hors-série Visages de la danse 2025 • Nathalie Yokel, mars 2025