Entwined hands, eyes crossed, ecstatic bodies. For over ten years, choreographer Joanne Leighton has been collecting photographs of gatherings. From celebration to protest, from one place to another, nearly a thousand images constitute this atlas, the starting point of People United. After 9000 Pas and Songlines, this new creation, which poses our gestures as the foundation of the collective, completes a trilogy dedicated to universal movements. Nine dancers blend into the skin of these snapshots captured on the spot. In Peter Crosbie's soundtrack, a mosaic of recordings composed of brass bands and percussion, voices rise up, like a reflection of humanity: from those, collective, from celebratory songs to the speeches of Martin Luther King or Greta Thunberg. Carried by this multitude, accompanied or distressed, sheltered or exposed, tender or provocative, between immobility and chaos, together, the bodies weave a score of familiar gestures, a shared physical language.
Léa Poiré
Léa Poiré