Quai d’Angers

choregraphy by Lia Rodrigues
[Brésil]

A prominent figure in Brazilian dance, Lia Rodrigues has made the Rio de Janeiro shantytown Maré Favela the home base of her dance company. Her show reflects this experience, via a space that is open to all and where she devotes herself to the creation of her dance pieces.

Composition created for the Ikebana master Seiho Okudaira and the dancer Emmanuelle Huynh
France and Japan

Shinbaï. Like its name, so redolent of the unfamiliar, the word and thing are poetic - the result of a unique confluence of contemporary dance and Ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging flowers. A strange and humorous show that takes its subtle cues from the scent of flowers.
After being created in Angers, the show went on tour to Paris, Versailles, Caen, Tokyo, Kyoto and beyond

Choreography by Emmanuelle Huynh
Choreographed legend for 1000 dancers.

Fresh from its triumph at the Montpellier Dance Festival, Cribles brings its 10 dancers to the main stage at Le Quai.

In Cribles’ pieces, which are about riddles and secrets, dancers and shadows move through the air, orchestrating a mysterious sabbath. The infinitely iterated ribbon of bodies unfolds its tale, conveying a thousand and one traces of the annals of dance.

Artistic director Faustin Linyekula
[Congo]

On a split-level set consisting of a dark basement on one level and an old theatre on the other, a group of young African actors decide on the spur of the moment to act out scenes from a book abandoned by the Belgians that is missing a number of pages. Bérénice emerges in snatches in the midst of the stark reality of life in Congo today. The play’s antiquated language competes with political speeches and ads on the radio.