Special envoy to Lyon (Rhône)
Is there a limit to what we can say with dance? It is at this precise location that Jan Martens, a choreographer trained at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, now associated with the Maison de la danse de Lyon, works.
With performers each time chosen expressly for what their physique can convey, it poses the socio-political questions of the moment. He probed physical limits, age, social networks... Here he is highlighting the voices of women. Without any didacticism, which is the beauty of it. With
Voice Noise
,
“I want to delve into the history of music and see if I can highlight several unknown voices
,” he says.
Women's music
Broadcast by a series of speakers hung from the sky of the stage, the soundtrack retransmits thirteen songs by women, from
Bella Ciao
to
No One's Little Girl
, all personal confessions, bitter or joyful. Between them, the music of women: not that so thunderous these days of “liberated speech”, but that…
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