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Room With a View

Rone, (LA)HORDE

© Cyril Moreau

  • Director (LA)HORDE
  • Genre Dance
  • Date 10.17.Fri. 7:30pm 10.18.Sat. 3:00pm
  • Rating 16 and above
  • Venue National Theater of Korea Haeoreum Grand Theater
  • Duration 80 min.
  • Premiere 2020 Paris, France
  • Tickets R 65,000won S 50,000won A 30,000won
  • Co-presented with

 

Global Interpark

A post-collapse world and beautiful movements of resistance, depicted through electronic music and contemporary dance

Introduction

<Room With A View>, created in 2020 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with music artist Rone, is the first collaboration between (LA)HORDE and the Ballet National de Marseille, composed of 23 dancers from 12 different countries.
The white cube stage, open like a blank sheet of paper, evokes a marble quarry where machines cut and polish stone. In a corner of this otherworldly place, Rone carves sweeping electronic and emotional landscapes, guiding us toward a path of salvation existing in a world beyond humanity.
Like Michelangelo's quote, "free the human form inside the block," the performers dance for liberation, striving to escape the static, white, immobile space.
Through chaotic movements inspired by rave parties and protests, they explore the role of humanity in the face of impending disaster. Overwhelmed by the infinite violence of the world, they reenact repeated pain with their bodies to expel it. The piece confronts the true nature of disaster, posing questions through the body, and imagines the possibility of hope—that even in an era of destruction, beauty still exists.
<Room With A View> explores various forms of protest, uprising, and revolt, giving voice to the suffering and justified anger of the current generation. The piece is a power revelation of a paradoxical beauty amidst chaos, and of the energy of salvation and collective power that emerges from collapse.

Director
(LA)HORDE

(LA)HORDE

(LA)HORDE is a collective formed in 2013 by the artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel. The three artists have been co-directing the CCN Ballet National de Marseille since 2019.

They work across various disciplines including performance, video, and stage productions using body movement. Their notable works include <Novaciéries (2015)>, <Cloud Chasers (2016)>, <The Master’s Tools (2017)>, <Cultes (2019)>, <Room With A View (2020)>, and <Ghosts (2021)>, and choreographed pieces <Night Owl, (2016)>, <To Da Bone (2017)>, <Marry Me in Bassiani (2019)>, and <Room With A View (2020)>. Through these, (LA)HORDE explores dance's political potential, mapping the forms of uprising, whether isolated or en masse through body language.

Their exploration of new on-line dynamics relating to the circulation and representation of dance and the body has led them to develop the concept of “post-internet dance.”

Working with a variety of media, (LA)HORDE explores the almost endless serendipity – i.e. the possibility of unexpected creative discovery – offered by the digital environment, and sheds light on the narratives of revolt held within the communities they collaborate with from multiple angles. Their collaborations take place not in hierarchical, but heterarchical structures.

(LA)HORDE collaborates with communities of marginalized individuals—senior citizens, blind persons, smokers, adolescents—to spend time with and accompany them in artistic solidarity. They have presented programs featuring a blend of unique styles, inclusivity, and social engagement by inviting artists such as American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs, Portuguese choreographer Tânia Carvalho, French queer dancer Lasseindra Ninja, and Northern Irish dance and theater choreographer Oona Doherty.

In 2022, they presented <Roommates>, a program of six short pieces that connect surrealism and minimalism. This program included works by Lucinda Childs, Claude Brumachon and Benjamin Lamarche, Peeping Tom, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud and (La)Horde.

They also presented a large-scale dance exhibition, <We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon>, which combined musical and action film genres with experimental choreography.

Credits
  • Artistic concept Rone and (LA)HORDE
  • Music Rone
  • Direction and choreographer (LA)HORDE Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel
  • With the dancers of the Ballet National de Marseille
  • Artistic assistant Julien Ticot
  • Lighting Eric Wurtz
  • Light design assistant Juan Gaspard
  • Sound engineer Vincent Philippart
  • Costume stylist Salome Poloudenny
  • Costume assistant Sandra Pomponio
  • Hair direction Charlie le Mindu
  • Physical preparation Waskar Coello Chavez
  • Rehearsal coach Valentina Pace
  • Stage director Julien Parra
  • Stage management Cécile Jongetjes-Mangaretto, Sébastien Mathé, Antoine Cahana
  • Stage design Julien Peissel

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