Artistic director: Michèle Murray
Artistic collaboration: Maya Brosch
Performers: Sébastien Bellegy, Florian Deleuil, Thomas Esnoult, Joane Etheart, Julie Hoste, Marie Julien, Marie Malgras, Sarah Messaoud Said, Camille Perrier, Pauline Soubigou
Duration: 40 minutes
Premiere: Festival Mouvements sur la Ville 2015
Production: Epsedanse
Created for the NID – Nouveaux Interprètes Danseurs – Epsedanse – Anne Marie Porras
A performance for ten pre-professional dancers
2015
HELIOTROPE is a performance for ten young students on their way to becoming professional dancers. The performance deals with commitment. The choreographic score comprises the choice of a resolutely frontal space, a physically engaged dance following a single and continuous rhythmic pulse, and simple graphic motifs. The dancers with wide-ranging backgrounds come together in a joyous and engaged battle, and renew the meaning of this word, using their bodies, their experience and the spirit of their generation.