{"id":4081,"date":"2025-11-19T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/?post_type=mec-events&p=4081"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:42:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:42:39","slug":"olivier-dubois-france-tragedie-new-edit-2","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/newbalticdance.lt\/en\/renginiai\/olivier-dubois-france-tragedie-new-edit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivier Dubois (France) \u2014TRAG\u00c9DIE (New Edit)"},"content":{"rendered":"Tickets<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n

Duration: 90 min.<\/b><\/p>\n

The performance features full nudity, including intimate areas of the body. The performance uses bright flashing lights.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Recommended age range 16+<\/b><\/p>\n

The performance is the manifesto of the New Baltic Dance festival.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI created \u201cTragedy\u201d from a simple and terrible sentence: <\/span>\u2018To be human does not mean to create humanity \u2014 and that is our human tragedy.\u2019<\/span><\/i> It still resonates, <\/span>with undiminished violence. <\/span>In the current Lithuanian context, this sentence takes on a new intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n

But tragedy does not carry only <\/span>disaster<\/span>. It also carries hope \u2014 <\/span>the hope born from what unites us, not from what makes us alike. <\/span>It is an individual struggle offered to a fight greater than oneself, <\/span>a gesture of defiance, a challenge thrown to the gods.<\/span><\/p>\n

I would be honored if \u201cTragedy\u201d found its place as the manifesto of the NEW BALTIC DANCE festival \u2014 as a symbol of the fight for dignity, freedom, and culture. With respect and solidarity to the Lithuanian civil society, Olivier Dubois.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The premier at the Avignon Festival in 2012 felt like a choreographic uppercut, and immediately became a manifesto piece, a veritable monument of contemporary dance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ten years after its premi\u00e8re, this choreographic poem has been rewritten by Olivier Dubois for eighteen performers. The new take propels the viewer into the \u201cfeeling of the world\u201d with the same power. Dizzying and chaotic. On giant percussion instruments, in an incessant ebb and flow, the great cycle of life is played out, made and unmade. It is humanity seen as a palimpsest, written upon, erased and written upon once again… An unending quest!<\/span><\/p>\n

In \u201cTrag\u00e9die\u201d, the performers manifest their belonging to the community of human beings. They pound the ground, walk about, straighten up, face one other, slide, kneel, appear, disappear, blend in so as not to capsize… and attest to our collective fate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivier Duboi<\/b>s has been shaking up the French contemporary dance scene for more than a decade with some of the most radical choreographic work to date. The director of Ballet du Nord from 2014 to 2017, he was named one of the twenty-five best dancers in the world in 2011 by Dance Europe magazine and boasts a unique experience working between creation, interpretation and pedagogy.<\/span><\/p>\n

OLIVIER DUBOIS is currently an associate artist at the CENTQUATRE-Paris and L’Onde Th\u00e9\u00e2tre – Centre d’Art in V\u00e9lizy- Villacoublay (78) with his company COD.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conception:<\/b> Olivier Dubois<\/span><\/p>\n

Interpretation:<\/strong> Nicholas Baffoni, Taos Bertrand, Camerone Bida, Eve Bouchelot, Steven Bruneau, Jacquelyn Elder, Steven Hervouet, Aim\u00e9e Lagrange, Sophie L\u00e8bre, Sebastien Ledig, Matteo Lochu, Nicola Manzoni, Thierry Micouin, Aur\u00e9lie Mouilhade, Mateusz Piekarski, Elsa Tagawa, Emiko Tamura.<\/p>\n

Creation assistant: <\/b>Karine Girard<\/p>\n

Music: <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Caffenne<\/span><\/p>\n

Head technician: <\/b>Fran\u00e7ois Michaudel<\/span><\/p>\n

Lighting:<\/b> Patrick Riou<\/span><\/p>\n

Lighting technician: <\/b>Adrien Hosdez<\/p>\n

Production COD \u2013 Compagnie Olivier Dubois<\/b><\/p>\n

Coproduction (2012): <\/b>Festival d\u2019Avignon \/ L\u2019apostrophe sc\u00e8ne nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d\u2019Oise \/ CENTQUATRE-Paris \/ La Rose des vents Sc\u00e8ne nationale Lille M\u00e9tropole \u00e0 Villeneuve d\u2019Ascq \/ M\u00e2con Sc\u00e8ne nationale \/ Ballets de Monte-Carlo\/Monaco Dance Forum \/ Malandain Ballet Biarritz dans le cadre de l\u2019accueil studio.<\/span><\/p>\n

Coproductions (for the new edit): <\/b>Maison de la Culture d\u2019Amiens \/ Les Halles de Schaerbeek – Bruxelles \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Paul \u00c9luard (TPE) de Bezons, sc\u00e8ne conventionn\u00e9e d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat national Art et Cr\u00e9ation – danse \/Festival de Marseille \/ Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de N\u00eemes – sc\u00e8ne conventionn\u00e9e d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat national – Danse contemporaine \/ CENTQUATRE-Paris<\/span><\/p>\n

Supports for the retake: <\/b>Mattatoio and the Festival Equilibrio – Fondazione Musica per Roma \/ ULTIMA VEZ – Win Vandekeybus \/ Mercat de les flors, Barcelona \/ SPEDIDAM, soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de perception et de distribution qui g\u00e8re les droits des artistes-interpr\u00e8tes en mati\u00e8re d\u2019enregistrement, de diffusion et de r\u00e9utilisation des prestations enregistr\u00e9es \/ R\u00e9gion \u00cele-de-France \/ L\u2019Institut Fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 Paris \/ La ville de Paris<\/span><\/p>\n

COD \u2013 Compagnie Olivier Dubois is supported by the French Ministry of Culture \/ Directorate General of Artistic Creation – Dance Delegation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Premiere:<\/b> At the Avignon Festival in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recreation:<\/b> 2022 m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Photos by:<\/b> Fran\u00e7ois Stemmer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Website<\/b>: <\/span>https:\/\/www.olivierdubois.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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