Bugging

Bugging is the fruit of a meeting between nine dancers from a wide range of contemporary urban dance backgrounds, revealing on stage the symptoms of an ongoing systemic disruption. When it's the bodies that sound the alarm...

How do you translate the revolt of the body in the face of a world going off the rails? In Bugging, choreographer Étienne Rochefort acknowledges that contemporary dance is born of social dysfunction. Popping, voguing, break, krump: all these choreographic expressions have appeared in different parts of the world to express the refusal of a relationship of domination and the feeling of injustice. Whether their bodies are alienated or sublimated, the dancers in Bugging experience in their flesh this contemporary being-in-the-world, whose symptoms they reveal: syncopation, mechanisation, loss of self or deflagration of energy... Inevitably political, Bugging makes the body the first to sound the alarm in the face of our brains in denial... all the while hoping that dance will provide a possible remedy.