Oona Doherty presents her new creation: Navy Blue, a modern ballet that voices an aspiration to life through a sudden and brutal disruption, where pain becomes a source of hope, beauty and empathy.
Another conscious and combative creation by the Irish choreographer.
Creation 2022
Piece for 12 dancers
Artistic direction et choreography Oona Doherty
Dancers Amancio Gonzalez Miñon, Andréa Moufounda, Arno Brys, Louise Gourvelec, Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, Joseph Simon, Mathilde Roussin, Ryan O’Neill, Sati Veyrunes, Zoé Lecorgne, Magdalena Öttl, Thibaut Eiferman
Music Jamie XX, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Text Oona Doherty et Bush Moukarzel
Visual artist / videographer Nadir Bouassria
Lighting John Gunning
Codirection, production and diffusion Gabrielle Veyssiere
Delegate production LEAD Hamburg
Coproduction Kampnagel (Hambourg - Allemagne), Sadler’s Wells (Londres - UK), Théâtre National de Chaillot, Biennale de Venise, Maison de la Danse (Lyon), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland), Julidans Festival (Amsterdam - Netherland), Dance Umbrella Festival (Londres – UK) Torino Danza (Italie), MC2 (Grenoble). Avec le soutien de la DRAC Ile-de-France ER
Partnership Pavillon Noir (Aix-en-Provence), CND (Pantin), KLAP (Marseille)
Photographies Ghislain Mirat / Sinje Hasheider / Dajana Lothert