Les Indes Galantes (2018)
Les Indes Galantes (The amorous indies), is an opera-ballet created by Jean Philippe Rameau in 1735. He was inspired for one of the dance by tribal Indian dances of Louisiana performed by Metchigaema chiefs, in Paris in 1723. Clément Cogitore adapts a short part of the ballet by mobilizing a group of Krump dancers, an art form born in Los Angeles black ghetto in the 1990s. Its birth occurred in the aftermath of the beating up of Rodney King and the riots, as well as police repression it triggered. Amidst this coercive atmosphere, young dancers started to embody the violent tensions of the physical, social and political body. Both the tribal dance performed in Paris in 1723, and the rebelious Krump dancers of the 1990s shape a reenactment of Rameau’s original libretto, staging young people dancing on the verge of a volcano.
Director: Clément Cogitore
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Sabine Devieilhe as Hébé / Phani / Zima |
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Julie Fuchs as Fatime / Emile |
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Florian Sempey as Bellone / Adario |
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Alexandre Duhamel as Alvar / Huascar |
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Jodie Devos as Amour / Zaire |
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Edwin Crossley-Mercer as Osman / Ali |
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Mathias Vidal as Valère / Tacmas |
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Stanislas de Barbeyrac as Carlos / Damon |
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Leonardo García Alarcón as Self - Conductor |
| Directing | Clément Cogitore | Director |
| Directing | Clément Cogitore | Stage Director |
| Sound | Jean-Philippe Rameau | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Leonardo García Alarcón | Conductor |
| Writing | Louis Fuzelier | Writer |
