Each choreographer has a Sacre within him. Jean-Claude Gallotta comes from his childhood as a schoolboy when he hears Igor Stravinsky’s work for the first time. With thirteen dancers as carnal and explosive as the music, a whole scene devoted to the daring experimental composer, Jean-Claude Gallotta takes us to seraphic figures, sensual shadows, tormented bodies, forbidden awakenings, unexplained agitation, disturbing palpitations.

Le Sacre was preceded by two short works:

I - Tumulte, in which the choreographer invites you to take notice of the primitive silence of the dance that precedes the musical explosion.

II - Pour Igor, a solo performed by Cécile Renard in homage to the composer, who is heckled and addressed familiarly like a God being thanked endlessly for having “picked music’s nose” and, a century later, to have remained the “wild young man” of 1913.

Concept: Marion Muzac, Rachel Garcia

Choreography: Marion Muzac and all the dancers based on the Vaslav Nijinski version of 1913.

Assistant: Brandon Masele

Set & Costumes: Rachel Garcia

Light Designer: Emmanuel Plumecocq

Music: The Rite of Spring Kirov Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev

Project Coordinator: Marwa Soufan

Dancers: EliasNazzal, Joyce Tannous, Haneen Khoury, Rebecca Qaoud, Rand Ewidat, Riad Khoury, Sara Attaya, Sara Qottob, Sari Hasan, Samir Tannous, Cizar Abu Mariam, Shihadeh Fino, Ammar Salem, Katia Joubran, Loris Tarazi, Lilian Attili, Lina Kurdi, Leen Taher, Milas Elimi, Milissa Tannous, Miora Tannous, Yara Abu Khadijeh, Yousef Kurdi

Special Thanks: Jamil Sehweil, Christine Halteh, Farah Saleh