Festival Trajectoires#5

After Trajectoires was postponed and canceled in 2021, it will be back in January 2022! From the city of Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, bodies will take their place once again on stages, in museums, and in castles, without barriers of genre or discipline. The dance festival is celebrating its fifth edition with gusto, taking artists and spectators on a dizzying and immersive journey, reviving the pleasure of experiencing movement together. Twenty-one cultural venues are participating in this celebration, where dance and music interact in a multitude of forms, and where women are more present than ever. See you from January 14 to 30!

This reunion heralds the return of large-scale festive and collective performances: Florence Caillon‘s glittering circus version of Swan Lake, and Marco Berrettini, Jonathan Capdevielle, and Jérôme Marin‘s offbeat Music all borderline. La BaZooka conjures up a ballet of luminous ghosts with Pillowgraphies, and Mourad Merzouki injects a touch of Brazilian madness into his repertoire piece Boxe Boxe Brasil. For the evening event at the château, Christine Maltête-Pinck has concocted a festive and offbeat surprise. Between bodies and places, Florence Loison‘s Human scale traces effects of scale, and Yvann Alexandre imagines an abstract, Amazonian version of Swan Lake (Se méfier des eaux qui dorment).

The 2022 edition of Trajectoires also explores the full range of relationships between dance and music. Madeleine Fournier brings together opera and baroque music (La chaleur), Léa Rault creates a dance concert on the fringes of clubbing (C’est confidentiel), and Colombian Andrea Peña delivers a powerful creation for six performers, a soprano, and a DJ (6.58: Manifesto). Marco d’Agostin pays pop tribute to the founder of DV8 (Best regards), Cédric Cherdel seeks unison among his performers in a polyphonic choir (Mascarade), and Anna Gaïotti draws on Ethiopian ethnomusical journeys to create material that makes bodies vibrate (A Kiss Without Lips). Sylvain Groud brings together an adult, a child, and a violinist in a fable inspired by Peter Handke (Lorsque l’enfant était enfant), and the Lucane Company shares two very rock ‘n’ roll solos with local residents (Un solo à transmettre / création). Molière’s comedy Le Malade imaginaire, revived by Marie-Geneviève Massé, Vincent Tavernier, and Hervé Niquet, takes to the stage at the Théâtre Graslin in a baroque and carnivalesque style. Noé Soulier, who comes from nearby at the CNDC in Angers, takes us on a journey with Les Vagues, a narrative of our bodily experiences based on a careful dialogue between the musicians of the Ictus ensemble and the performers.

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