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The city of dance in Rennes is starting a new season with a program under the sign of change. Its new director relies on cross-fertilization with other disciplines and other cultures.
On this sunny Sunday in September, Le Triangle launches its season with a festive afternoon. baptized Wow back to school, the sung, very visual and sometimes crazy shows are out of step with the spirit of the place. A taste of the 2022/23 program chosen for the first time by Patrick Le Floch, director of the place for a year. “I want to decompartmentalize dance and make it dialogue with other arts and other disciplines” he explains. Patrick Le Floch’s objective is to show different aesthetics with dance performances geared towards visual art. Eyes closed… by French choreographer Mickaël Le Mer, scheduled for December 9 and 10, 2022, is a concrete example of this change of artistic direction.
On stage, eight hip-hop dancers explore the universe of the master of Outrenoir, the painter Pierre Soulages. Their “body brushes” start from darkness to design space and sculpt light.
This new program also offers the public the opportunity to discover other cultures, especially African ones. “This idea of crossbreeding is what is happening here in Rennes, in Brittany. We will have artists who will come from South Africa, Nigeria, who will give this color to the season” enthuses Patrick Le Flock. From November 17 to 19, 2022, the Triangle stage will ignite with Re : incarnation by Nigerian Qudus Onikeku. A creation with frenzied rhythms between dance-hall, hip-hop and electro with a dozen dancers in very colorful costumes.
Another trip with We wear our wheels by South African choreographer Robyn Orlin. This show is a tribute to Zulu rickshaws, rickshaw drivers for whites during apartheid. Six performers dressed and styled in the Zulu tradition sing and dance to denounce this practice inherited from South Africa’s colonialist past. To discover from November 22 to 24, 2002.
The Triangle, boulevard de Yugoslavia, Rennes