A marble quarry. Machines are at work, cutting and polishing the stone. In this place outside the world, behind these machines, RONE sculpts vast electronic and emotional landscapes for a horde of ravers. If sculptors once worked marble to “liberate the human form within the block” (Michelangelo), the performers here dance to escape the white immobility of stone; they rise to contemplate the infinitely human contours of an impending disaster and to imagine the very possibility of its beauty.
The stage becomes a blank page, a space conceived as a naturalistic white cube a fragmented 3D photogrammetry in which sounds and images can be projected, and where the shifting place of humanity can be explored through bodies.
Invited by the Théâtre du Châtelet for a carte blanche, RONE chose to collaborate with (LA)HORDE. Together, they continue their exploration of forms of uprising, protest, and revolt through dance. Room With a View was also, for RONE, the occasion of a new album a singular performance in which the cries of his machines resonate, inviting us toward new forms of escape, tracing lines of flight toward songs that exist far beyond humankind.
(LA)HORDE conceived this work as a difficult awakening of consciousness, a forced march driven by the overwhelming prospect of collapse, focusing on the physical relationships we maintain with the group and with our environment an exploration of the boundaries and necessary interdependencies of our bodies.
The collective chose to embody the subterranean movements both hateful and loving that agitate us, and whose understanding opens the way to a broader grasp of the inevitable struggles and conflicts to come. Choreography meets music to express the suffering and the legitimate anger of current generations seeking to unite and find meaning, within communities of celebration and resistance, overwhelmed by the world’s endless violence, which they replay within their own bodies, as if to exorcise it.
(LA)HORDE has imagined an ambiguous space capable of revealing the paradoxical beauty of chaos the kind that emerges from salvational energy and collective force arising out of multiple collapses. In this, they deeply resonate with the call of science fiction writer Alain Damasio to wage a “war of imaginaries”: a war against everything that impoverishes possibilities and stifles the political utopias that seek to reinvent the world.
