Crowd

In Crowd, a piece for fifteen dancers, choreographer and director Gisèle Vienne focuses on the large scale of emotions of humanity, including the unspeakable ones. She questions the spaces societies imagine to express those in a way that this expression doesn’t harm the community and allows these emotions to unfold. These questions are also the ones related to the relation between arts and religions. The time and space mix up in Vienne’s choreography, referring to early 90s rave, is playing with strong time distortions and perceptions in various ways. In addition to individual stories, the dancers show as a group how a society can stimulate violence into an eventual positive experience. The soundtrack is a collage by Peter Rehberg, covering thirty years of electronic music history, including new work by the pioneering duo KTL (Rehberg and Stephen O'Malley). Crowd is a dialogue with our intimate self in all its deepest aspects.