À l’Ouest

For her latest creation, Olivia Grandville is following the steps of Moondog, the American counterculture composer who was permanently affected by watching a sun dance by a Native American tribe. He would remember the original beat of the drums his whole life. Now the choreographer wants to preserve the beat from this story, with the beat of the bodies and the world as the central theme. Heading off on an initiatory journey to the Native American reserves in Canada and North America, Olivia Grandville has seen evidence of a culture that is still alive, despite the genocide, and a revolutionary heart that continues to beat in Trump’s America, crazier than ever. In other respects, the question of geographical, cultural and personal displacement is appropriate for questioning our own foundations, margins and vanguards. And then she says “a people who imagine conquering entire cavalries of heavily armed soldiers one day by dancing day and night, that appeals to me”. So Go West even more!