Double Murder was born from the union of an already classic piece, Clowns, and an original piece designed to respond to it, The Fix. Clowns is like a choreographic comet, returning every two years in Hofesh Shechter's creative process. Its first appearance was in 2014, as a passage from a show called Sun. In 2016, ten grimaced performers, some of whom wear a strawberry around their necks, reappear in a full-fledged choreography that already questions our troubled relationship to violence as banal entertainment. Two years later, Clowns is reworked and expanded to be integrated into Show. Its enormous impact on the audience convinced Shechter that he was not finished with the questions it raised. Clowns lends itself to such re-edits. The large-scale "choreographed murder" performed to the sound of tribal percussion (composed by Shechter himself) is charged with sarcasm and explosive anger, humour and darkness, but also with a certain playful lightness. The emotional atmosphere of this swirling, complexly ambiguous macabre comedy varies each night according to the mood of the audience, without being reduced to a single tone. By proposing the return of a contemplative, stripped-down time, open to qualities such as "fragility, gentleness and compassion", The Fix is like an antidote to the world depicted by Clowns. Shechter therefore readily admits that Double Murder is also a play on words designed to whet the audience's curiosity: double the agenda, double the style, but also the aspiration to "double" violence in order to finally leave it behind, paradoxically renouncing the seductions of its maddening speed. For "the most precious currency we possess today" concludes the choreographer, "has something to do with hope".
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