Red, a documentary performance

Wen Hui is a Chinese film-maker and choreographer whose work is based on memories from his homeland. In Red, it lingers on the history of the Red Detachment of Women, a company exclusively made up of women dedicated to the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and 1970s. Armed with guns but wearing pointes, they celebrated the merits of the Great Helmsman and powerfully expressed their devotion to the Revolution with grands jetés and martial dances. Wen Hui has brought together two generations of dancers to evoke the power of history by examining the choreographies created for these indoctrinated bodies and the principles behind them: material gathered from the past so as to understand the present.