The boosted choreographer, who composed the music of the film of Cédric Klapisch in which he plays, presents his shows in La Villette and the Abbesses in Paris.
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Four times on the poster in four prestigious Parisian theaters in the space of nine months! The choreographer and composer Hofesh Shechter is everywhere. From October 2021 to May, the Théâtre du Châtelet at the Garnier Palace via the Abbesses and La Villette, impossible to miss the Israeli artist. Nevertheless, it is sometimes necessary to get the crane foot in front of the ticketing of the rooms if one wants to have the chance to see one of its shows, often complete. A solution currently: retreat to the cinema where the film in body, from Cédric Klapisch, which he co-produced and who has amplified his success already huge, staged him in his own role and makes us enjoy his percussive music surf.
From his first appearance, in 2009, at the house of Lyon dance, then a year after at the theater of the city, in Paris, his pounded guilt immediately seized the audience. His Youth Pieces Uprising (2006), Guerrillas in the Court of Recess, and in Your Rooms (2007), existential escape on the meaning of life, taken up by the Ballet of the National Opera of Paris, from March 14th to 3 April, at the Garnier Palace, affirm his author’s talent. Insurrectional breath in the air of time, wonderfully “triple”, art consommated zapping, tray science and lights with black passages that bring the suspense … Shechter is a pyrotechnic who puts full view. Full the ears also as its crates’ compositions sometimes demand to put corks, often kindly offered by theaters.
Junior Company
The specific Groove of Hofesh Shechter rests on a joint learning of dance and music. Born in Jerusalem in 1975, he studied the piano from 6 to 13 years old, participates in a folklore troupe at the age of 12 years. He then integrates the Dance Academy and Music of Jerusalem, then the Batsheva Dance Company, to Tel Aviv. He moved in 2002 in London. Percussionist since he was 22, he becomes drummer in a rock band. He creates his first piece, a duet, fragments, in 2003, of which he signs the choreography and the soundtrack. Since the creation of his troop in 2008, he founded a second group open to interpreters aged 18 to 25, the Shechter II.
This junior company presents Contemporary Dance 2.0, until April 10, at the Abbesses. It finds its ingredients, a little too recognizable today, but always magically effective. Dry flip-flops between darkness and light leave room for clearly smoking conducive to illusions of optics and chats of bright colors of costumes. The unisons, many, many – a tendency to make one that colonizes dance trays for more than ten years -, are linked. Ardor and rage, the stormy collective body sweeps the scene like a hydrofoil. The arms in heaven for an invocation or a prayer suddenly straighten the curved silhouette that remembers the traditional gestures learned teen by Shechter. The community of dancers speaks to that of the spectators and it obviously does good for everyone.
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