LES LOCATAIRES
A quartet dedicated to Dominique Bagouet

„The starting point is this title like one of a concise and short story about a group portrait. Work on rhythm, on energy and space give the choreography a sustained tension with situations which can glide from the catastrophic to the burlesque... Minuscule dramas triggered by the interplay of tensions aggravated or abandoned surprises the senses and modify the sense.“ Didier Théron

Choreography : Didier Théron
Dancers of the Didier Théron Dance Company or dancers of the Japanese collective Monochrome Circus.
Music : Ludwig van BEETHOVEN „Symphony n°9“
Lighting : Didier THERON
Costumes : Antoinette BUGARD
Duration : 30 minutes

Creation in 1995 at the Montpellier International Dance Festival.
Re-creation in 2004 with the Monochrome Circus, a Japanese artist collective from Kyoto, within a residential project at the Kyoto Art Center, presented at the Gekken Theater of Kyoto in 2004, at the Kyoto Art Center and the Morishita Studio - Season Foundation of Tokyo in 2005, supported by the AFFA and the French-Japanese Institute of Tokyo.

The tenants and the self-portrait of a group...
„The community, the collective, the „family“, in a restricted or in a broad sense, is a subject which I continuously play with and challenge with new interpreters - artists. Today, this piece keeps its entire force, its intensity, and continues to address dancers and choreographers throughout the world. I continued working on it with Monochrome Circus, Japanese artists, in 2004/05 ; with the Ballet of Greifswald in ex - East Germany in 2005, and I took some research time with a collective of choreographers and dancers from Perth in Australia in 2004.“ Didier Théron