LES AUTRES

Since the beginning of my career, I have always refused stereotypes. I consider that hip hop is a discipline of art and research where cultures, artistic practices and experiences meet. The idea of this new production started by meeting with remarkable musicians who play rare and unusual instruments. I have shared my universe with them and they have agreed to work on the project. Loup Barrow, a multi-instrumentalist and percussionist who is always looking for new sounds, is among the great specialists of the cristal baschet, “the crystal organ” whose keyboard consists of glass rods that he strokes with his wet fingers, sculpting a fascinating sound by creating vibration effects. Grégoire Blanc, is a Cellist and engineer and one of the few players who has mastered the theremin. The theremin is a mysterious electronic instrument that is played by undulating hands inside an electromagnetic field and without touching anything. It makes a sound like an invisible violin emanating vibratos and dazzling melodies of exceptional purity.
Thereafter, the desire to work around the notion of the strange and unusual was born, which generates beauty and poetry whilst renewing the dialogue between music, dance and scenography.
Between unexpected appearances, moments of illusion and elements of surprise, we enter a space-time where the extraordinary replaces the ordinary. The dance is performed by six dancers from the hip hop and contemporary aesthetics.
Three other artists with a distinctive universe will work with me: the scenographer Olivier Borne who, with his imaginary places, his expressionist sets which play on the poetics of the object. Régis Baillet who, with his sensitive music, characterizes the electroacoustic and crystalline loops whose elegance and fluidity accompany my dance. Camille Duchemin will accompany me on the dramaturgy. The musicians will be on stage, alongside the dancers, impregnating with their virtuosity and their personality. It is a production that reflects of our interactions and emotions being baroque, intense and surprising.

Kader Attou