Möbius | Compagnie XY / Rachid Ouramdane

It could have been called Murmurations. The word refers to those fascinating flocks of birds, such as starlings, that coordinate their flight in such a way as to remain always grouped together, forming a coherent system of points in perpetual metamorphosis. No one really understands how they do it. It is impossible to follow a single individual with our eyes, we only perceive the global and changing envelope of their cloud. Their speed, their unpredictable yet linked trajectories, the hypnotic effect they produce, inspired the members of XY to work on a performance in constant transformation, which would no longer be made up of distinct numbers but would develop as a whole, without any solution of continuity, and would be nourished by the "writing by avalanches, in dominoes, in waves" of a contemporary choreographer. Today, it is called Möbius, in homage to the famous ribbon, an image of infinity, which twists half a turn on itself and welds itself edge to edge so that right side and left side come together. The boundaries between dance and circus are no longer relevant. We no longer distinguish between form and flow, between the beginning and end of a movement in this ballet of prowess where successes and failures, falls and take-offs, human columns and collapses merge without respite and loop into each other, where porters and acrobats exchange roles, where the stage fills and empties like a heart that beats in unison with nineteen bodies intensely attentive to the gestures of others, carried alone or together by the music as if by a surf, in a flow of gushing, uninterrupted collective energy, made to be shared.