With devices designed by Retouramont, a dance company specializing in aerial techniques, choreographer Mourad Merzouki leaves the ground and plays with gravity. His new production confronts the very much floor-based hip-hop dance with verticality. Dancers dash in the air, they leap, climb and fly, bringing poetry and weightlessness to the vocabulary of hip-hop movement.
Merzouki carries on his process of breaking down genre barriers, disrupting our frames of references. “This new dance surface will lead me to question the concept of scenic space – how can one appropriate the air through dance? – on the relationship between individuals on stage, obvious here by the notion of link, the wire that holds the body”, explains Merzouki, “new converging lines will emerge in this research. The devices used in vertical dance bring new sensations, a form of lightness, the feeling of flying, illusion".