Dimitri Chamblas in collaboration with Kim Gordon takemehome

Enjoy a unique experience before the performance begins
Constantly questioning the position of spectators and the collective experience created by dance, choreographer Dimitri Chamblas is proposing a physical practice, accessible to all, which will be directly linked to the issues at stake in the piece.

Meet one hour before the performance at Studio Béjart. At 19.30pm on Wed 9/18, at 18.30 on Thu 9/19 and Fri 9/20 and at 14 pm on Sat 9/20.

Under a luminous zeppelin, the 9 dancers appear and disappear in silhouette like the shadows one can glimpse between the urban highways crisscrossing the great metropolises. Driving through Los Angeles at night, choreographer Dimitri Chamblas was struck by the sight of these ghost-like bodies that epitomize seedy and impoverished life relegated to the edges of the city. A look through the mirror at the foot of Hollywood hills. This gritty quality gives takemehome a surprising vitality rooted in a joyful darkness similar to the one children make up in a dimly lit bedroom, where shadows project another world, grotesque and eerie. As it turns out, the 9 dancers emerge one by one from the darkness, seemingly poised between wandering and performing new gestures over an electric score by Kim Gordon, a guitarist and visual artist who has been playing the soundtrack of post-industrial America for 40 years, with Sonic Youth or as a solo act.

An ode to the forgotten shadows of the great metropolises, revenge of the unproductive, overlooked and indecisive ghosts, takemehome is the third collaboration between Kim Gordon and Dimitri Chamblas, who has consistently displayed a taste for multidisciplinary work and cross-pollination. A case in point is the creative digital platform 3e Scène he conceived and ran for the Opéra national de Paris, for which he commissioned works from big names of contemporary art, dance, photography and cinema. Dancer, choreographer, film producer and artistic director, Dimitri Chamblas has collaborated with Benjamin Millepied with whom he founded the LA Dance Project. 
 

Vincent Théval 

Jeff Slayton in LA Dance Chronicle