Radio Vinci Park Reloaded

In a makeshift garage, a helmeted biker and  an outlandish creature, accompanied by mysterious mechanics, engage in a ritual to the sound of a harpsichord. A frontal collision between  courtship display and kill.

In 2016, Théo Mercier and François Chaignaud, with their piece Radio Vinci Park, orchestrated an explosive encounter between an outlandish creature in high heels and an enigmatic helmeted biker. In a makeshift garage converted into an arena hemmed by metal barriers, the two beings engaged in a strange ritual, somewhere between courtship ritual and kill.  Mercier has since conducted a number of stage experiences, particularly  with the choreographer Steven Michel (Affordable Solution for Better Living)  and with Marlène Saldana and Jonathan Drillet (La fille du  collectionneur) or recently, with the Outremonde saga, an exhibition and  performances devised with sand. Meanwhile, choreographer-dancer Chaignaud has continued his search for a porous and penetrable body,  displaying a fresh facet of his rich artistic personality in each work.  For his reunion with Radio Vinci Park in a “reloaded” version, there are now five performers on the track – which soon bursts at the seams as the engine of fantasy roars into overdrive.

Source: Biennale de la danse