After producing several works involving dance and song (Pop-up Songbook, Do You Believe in Gravity? Do You Trust the Pilot?, Verosimile, More or Less Sad Songs), Thomas Hauert and his company, ZOO, have created a show that combines movement, words and music around the writings of Oscar van den Bogaard. Walking Oscar is a type of "musical" that does not respect the conventions of the genre. Oscar van den Bogaard's writing is non-linear, a collage of small episodes and thoughts that makes sense on a deeper level. Like our brain no doubt, the main routes of his texts intersect secondary paths or take unexpected short-cuts to result in an entirely personal cohesion. It is an approach echoed in the work undertaken by ZOO, a company that abandons linear developments for a logic based on intuition and faith in the individual.

Oscar van den Boogaard has provided a collection of short passages that form a quasi-impressionistic (self-) portrait. Thomas Hauert and the dancers from ZOO have undertaken to put these fragments into order, into perspective(s) and in relation to each other to create a new constellation from the associations they create within the group. Read by the Scottish actor Stuart McQuarrie, the (re)structured text run through the show in the form of a sound-track. The movements that are added to the words, as well as the songs which intersect them – written by the dancers themselves in collaboration with Alejandro Petrasso and Bart Aga – always answer them in one way or another. Sometimes they interpret or illustrate them, sometimes they question or inflect them and sometimes they just use their rhythm. Walking Oscar starts the game of mental associations on stage, inviting the audience to continue it in the theatre. A montage of episodes emerging out of the darkness of the set like as many points of view on innocence and responsibility, identity and adaptation, will and manipulation, the real and the imaginary. A montage where it is a question too of the sense of frustration linked to the experience we are all having with our own limits, our "inadequacies": a reality that you cannot look directly at for too long without being blinded by it.

Denis Laurent

Spectacle à 20.30h

LIEU : Les Ecuries

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