• Tuesday 14 February 2012 - 20h30
• Wednesday 15 February 2012 - 20h30
• Thursday 16 February 2012 - 20h30
• Friday 17 February 2012 - 20h30
• Saturday 18 February 2012 - 15h00
• Saturday 18 February 2012 - 20h30
• Monday 20 February 2012 - 20h30
• Tuesday 21 February 2012 - 20h30
• Wednesday 22 February 2012 - 20h30
• Thursday 23 February 2012 - 20h30
• Friday 24 February 2012 - 20h30
• Saturday 25 February 2012 - 15h00
• Saturday 25 February 2012 - 20h30
• Monday 27 February 2012 - 20h30
• Tuesday 28 February 2012 - 20h30
• Wednesday 29 February 2012 - 20h30

DANCE IN QUEST OF CHILDHOOD

Young Anglo-Israeli choreographer and composer Hofesh Shechter, meshes beautiful bodily vigour, an overwhelming vitality and percussive music with a razor sharp sense of the sudden assaults onto the stage. For his third visit to the Théâtre de la Ville, he revives Uprising (2006) designed for seven electrified male dancers. His mastery of the ballet discloses unpredictably carved lines, a result of his maximum use of “flash” effects and of the brisk succession of the sequences. Mirroring this masculine, strongly accented piece, The Art of Not Looking Back (2009), for six female dancers is imbued with equally intense vitality. But it is highly emotional too. Shechter inserts autobiographical confidences about his mother and the sense of void a child may feel in his mother’s absence. The women dancers boldly embrace that sorrowful theme. Sophisticated and contemporary, tribal and gut-rooted, Shechter’s style will deliver yet another hell of a surprise.

Jeanne Ligier