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Throbbing engines and flashing lights set the scene for the hypnotic movements of Angelin Preljocaj’s HELIKOPTER/LICHT, set to music from Karlheinz Stockhausen and Laurent Garnier. In this see-saw between the past and the future, he bids us to pass through the storm and dance with the oncoming world together. An electrifying diptych but above all, a sensory experience.

Dates
Wednesday
10 March 2027 at 8pm
Thursday
11 March 2027 at 8pm
Friday
12 March 2027 at 8pm
Saturday
13 March 2027 at 7pm
Location
Theatre, Pavillon Noir
Duration
1h25
Price
From 10€ to 29€

Distribution / Credits

HELIKOPTER 2001 Creation
Piece for 6 performers
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Music Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helikopter-quartet’
Performed by Le Quatuor Arditti
Scenography Holger Förterer
Lighting Patrick Riou
Costumes Sylvie Meyniel
Restaged by Youri Aharon Van den Bosch, deputy to the Artistic Direction
Rehearsal assistant Paolo Franco
Choreologist Dany Lévêque
Command of la Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val-de-Marne-2001
Coproduction 2001 La Criée - Centre Dramatique National de Marseille, Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val de Marne, Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne Avec l’aide à la création du Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne
Award Herald Angel Award by Edinburgh Internationale Festival
LICHT 2025 Creation
Piece for 12 perfomers
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Original music Laurent Garnier
Light Éric Soyer
Costumes Eleonora Peronetti
Video Nicolas Clauss
Extract from « STOCKHAUSEN - PRELJOCAJ / DIALOGUE »
Filmed by Olivier Assayas © MK2TV 2007
Assistant, Deputy to the Artistic Direction Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Rehearsal assistant Paolo Franco
Choreologist Dany Lévêque
Coproduction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
Photos © Yang Wang - photos 1,2,3 "LICHT" / photos 4,5,6 "HELIKOPTER"

PRESS QUOTES 

 

« (…) HELIKOPTER creates a united whole: booming music recorded in a heliport, lines and figures gliding across the floor by the magic of video, duos tripled and cut with resolute vigour. Preljocaj takes up the idea of the movement of the helicopter blades, echoed in the rotations of the dancers’ bodies, their arm movements and the intertwining of the couples(…)»
Danser, April 2001

«(…)his show HELIKOPTER, in which he confronts Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helikopter Quartet, a score composed of the whirring roar of four helicopter engines accompanied by four strident violins. This combination is revealed to be of a most majestic beauty, demanding dance to raise its head, and raise the roof too so it will not be crushed to nothing. In a pit of light, with floor projections by the German artist Holger Förterer, which catch the dance a net of signs, and force it to fight back with biting energy.»
Le Monde, 13 March 2001