Olivier Dubois & Ballet du Nord

Tragédie

The celebrated French choreographer Olivier Dubois and an ensemble of 18 dancers kick off the festival with «Tragédie». In his through composed choreography, an endless stream of naked dancers moves and whirls across the stage. What starts as a seemingly harmless and straightfor ward routine transforms into a bacchanalian hurricane of moving bodies. Archaic, touching, hypnotic and deeply human. Dubois himself considers his three-part piece «more a world experience than a choreography». (esc)