November 30th, 2025 Festival de Danse Cannes, Cannes
December 5th, 2025 Théâtre de Villefranche-sur-Saône
December 9th – 10th, 2025 Les Quinconces L’Espal, Le Mans
December 17th – 18th, 2025 Le Grand R, La Roche-sur-Yon
Duration: unknown
Boléro & Hip-Hop
As a child, Mickaël Le Mer played the film Les Uns et les Autres by Claude Lelouch (1981) on repeat. The scene from Ravel’s Bolero has influenced him ever since. The circle then took up space and would become the marker of this new creation.
Widely present in the world of hip-hop, the circle is the essence of breakdancing and freestyle. It materializes in space, it participates in choreographic constructions. The circle is also present in the body, in the movements of the pelvis. It also figures in societal questions: what is the circle in a group? How does it allow us to identify, to assimilate into a group? And how can it also be a danger for our society?
What does the circle tell us when it is open? What does it tell us when it is closed? What happens when a piece is missing from the circle? What is visible? What is invisible? What does it convey about the spiritual order? What place does it have in rituals?
From the full to the semicircle, from the loop to the ellipse, this new creation, in which dance, scenography, light, and music will be all-encompassing, aspires to capture the essence of this symbolic form.
