EUGÉNIE ANDRIN COMPANY

Breathe, Breathe !

Creation 2021
World Première
Coproduction Anthéa / Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur France
Performance with 45 dancers with students from Art option from Nice High School G. Apollinaire and from Antibes High School Audiberti.

Choreography : Eugénie Andrin
Dramaturgy : Vanessa d’Ayral de Sérignac
Music : Clément Althaus

500 years ago, several hundred Strasbourg residents were struck by an epidemic of uncontrollable dancing. Eugenie Andrin transposes this story to the context of our modern pandemic in order to present an immense dance with 45 participants.

In 1518, the population of the city of Strasbourg was seized by a dancing madness for weeks on end … What if the situation today were to plunge our society into collective hysteria …?