Dance: Beauséjour

Fifteen dancing bodies, young and old, invade the stage in a sharing of genres that Mourad Merzouki has the secret of. With an energy and generosity that are his trademark, and a tender look at the passing of time... From burlesque situations to tender effusions, the piece takes on the appearance of a guinguette where it is good to meet and dance, whatever your age!

Hip hop, breakdance, moonwalk, contemporary and even a few tango steps, the choreographer has long since abolished the boundaries between choreographic writings. Today he goes even further by freeing himself from formatted representations of the body: here the young people display an impeccable silhouette and develop fiery gestures, the others have paunches and gray hair, squeezed into retro clothes, weighed down by their excess pounds. The magic happens from their first meeting, transcended by the electro music of the Franco-Swiss and Argentinian duo Müller & Makaroff (Gotan Project) who already composed the music for his Danse des jeux. The art of cross-dressing plays out in full in a human comedy with a deliberately humorous tone and an offbeat look, with a title that is a nod to the Beauséjour neighborhood where the choreographer grew up in Saint-Priest. In his fifties, he approaches the theme of old age without nostalgia but with tenderness, making bodies speak with poetry, lightness and sensitivity.