out of time. promise of World 2024Dancer Solal Mariotte offered an original rewriting of his solo Collages/Ravages, which questions the place of manhood and sexism in dance, at the festival’s opening on Friday, September 20. The 22-year-old hip-hop and break-dancing virtuoso’s lively performance was punctuated by the percussive rhythm of drummer Lucas Messler. In 2025, Solal Mariotte will work in a duo with the great Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Deconstruction. In 2019, the new Moscow Museum offers Ukrainian artist Olga Dukhovnaya choreographing Swan Lake for thirty-two dancers, orchestra and singers. After two years of pandemic, the war in Ukraine finally dealt the final blow to this project. The choreographer then concentrated the entire corps de ballet on a single performer. At the festival on Friday evening, with his partner Stanley Menthor, his solo Swan Lake made the square vibrate. In a political gesture, denouncing that Swan Lake that the former USSR broadcast repeatedly on all channels every time a general secretary of the communist party died.
Heat. A great traveller and passionate about musical encounters, Amina Mezaache and her Brazilian jazz group Maracuja took festival-goers on a colourful travel diary nourished by the richness of Brazilian, African and jazz cultures. Under the lights of the Arc de Triomphe, WorldThe crowd in the square is teleported into the dream world of the flutist who closes the concert with a tribute to “HP”For Hermeto Pascoal, a composer of the Brazilian avant-garde, one of his main inspirations. In the album Vortex, the Maracuja quartet explores the resplendent universe of music from the Brazilian Northeast, samba, carnival, where each rhythm tells its own story, from Rio to Manaus, passing through the dusty roads of Conakry, all tinged with jazz experiments.
Future. Funky bass and techno concluded a very rhythmic opening evening of the World festival. The DJ duo Club 2050 offered a three-hour set, opening with the Olympic anthem in electro version. Olivier Clairouin, head of the newspaper’s Pixels department, and his accomplice on stage, Arthur Nancel, aim to mix music and ecology to imagine the future of the world. “party of the future”. His idea: that “night fever” It doesn’t rhyme with a climate hangover, Club 2050 donates the profits from its services to associations that fight to preserve the environment. In fact, it’s better to set fire to the dance floor than to the planet!
