[ Cancelled ] Camping Sauvage

Based in Brussels since 1995, Brazil-born Maria Clara Villa-Lobos had a fine career dancing for the likes of Rui Horta, ballets C de la B and Sasha Waltz before embarking on choreography herself. XL, because size does matter, created for Brussels 2000, merrily denounced consumerist society – a theme that continues to run through the fifteen

or so pieces created by her company
XL Production. In Camping Sauvage, her latest theatre-dance show for young audiences, Maria Clara Villa-Lobos ploughs her furrow, teases reality, scrutinises social dealings
and reveals their hidden side. As recently in Mas-Sacre (on the meat industry) and Alex au Pays des poubelles (on the issue of rubbish), for Camping Sauvage the choreographer constructs a visual language for the stage that allows the audience to train a sharp eye on the workings of the contemporary world and fights over territory. The question of living together and cultural mixing emerges with humour and lightness, but without removing the controversy from the subject matter.