Cartoon

The four characters dressed in shiny clothes, sequins and animal fur suddenly appear on stage in this work that won the Prize of the Ministry of Culture at the Rencontres jeune public in Huy in 2017. Their festive, extravagant, animal, joyful, fierce, mesmerising and quick-tempered gestural language is accompanied by a soundtrack where sound effects, pop music and classical arias collide. An aesthetic of explosion, a colourful, generous zapping dance full of exaggeration and detail demanded by Cartoon in which the collective and individual, love, sharing, jealousy and selfishness have their place… The moods change, sometimes violently so, at the heart of a piece that speaks to everyone despite there being no narrative thread.

A proposition that at times is light, at other times is serious, with the choreographer urging young members of the audience aged six and upwards “not to abandon their body”, but rather “to learn very soon to always live from it, in it, respecting its nature and its profound desires”.