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Corps extrêmes
With The Support Of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Rachid Ouramdane / Compagnie de Chaillot (France)
- 6 Dec 2024, Fri, 8pm
- 7 Dec 2024, Sat, 8pm
“Corps extrêmes is a meditation on risk, vertigo and fear. The show draws a graphic and chiselled picture where the fragility of the body, one’s own and that of each co-performer, is never forgotten even at the height of physical prowess.” – Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde
“What made the experience even more luminous was the way they landed or ascended into the air, making it almost seem as though the stage was really a cloud.” – The New York Times
Choreographer Rachid Ouramdane comes to Esplanade for the first time with his widely acclaimed full-evening creation, Corps extrêmes.
In this piece of immense scale and vision, breathtaking levels of acrobatic and athletic virtuosity gently give way to a luminous sensitivity and humbling vulnerability as ten performers meet between earth and sky. Created with two extreme sports athletes—the French highline world record holder Nathan Paulin, and Swiss climbing champion Nina Caprez—alongside eight acrobats, Ouramdane’s electrifying yet meditative choreography sees these unlikely collaborators flirting with gravity, traversing a magnificent climbing wall built on stage and testing the limits of the body. Somewhere between documentary and dream, simultaneously intimate and larger than life, Corps extrêmes sheds new light on what it means to stand on the edge of a precipice, literally and figuratively.
Named one of the Best Dance Performances of 2023 by The New York Times, this striking work now arrives in Singapore after captivating audiences worldwide.
This production is presented as part of da:ns focus – Out of Site, a weekend of programmes that invites you to the terrain where extreme sports and dance meet.
A Reason for Falling
An Esplanade Commission
Hwa Wei-An (Malaysia)
- 7 Dec 2024, Sat, 5pm
- 8 Dec 2024, Sun, 5pm
A Reason for Falling is an exploration of the possibilities that exist between a loss of balance and a meeting with the ground. It is a look at what happens when we let go of control, give in to gravity, and embrace the experience of a fall.
This work is inspired by the experience of watching freeriding, the practice of riding down uncurated mountain faces on bikes, snowboards or skis. It is one dancer's way of translating these practices from vast, open terrains onto the flat, safe space of the dance floor, and to pursue possibility, wonder, and joy.
Through its many iterations, morphing from video installation to several work-in-progress presentations, A Reason for Falling will return to Esplanade in its final form with fresh inspiration and lingering curiosities.
This production is presented as part of da:ns focus – Out of Site, a weekend of programmes that invites you to the terrain where extreme sports and dance meet.
Image Credit: Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
Age
8–10, 12–18
Price
from: 22.4 SGD
Telephone number
+65 6828 8377
Links
Address
Singapore1 Esplanade Drive, Singapore 038981
How to get there?
By Bus:
Bus Stop No. 02061 (The Esplanade)
Buses stop outside Esplanade Mall entrance along Raffles Avenue. Bus service numbers 36, 56, 70M, 75, 77, 97, 97e, 106, 111, 133, 162M, 171, 195, 531, 700A, 857, 960, 961, 1N, 2N, 3N, 4N, 5N, 6N, NR1, NR2, NR5, NR6, NR7, NR8
Bus Stop No. 02111 (Esplanade Bridge)
Buses stop along Esplanade Drive. Bus service numbers 10, 57, 70, 128, 162, 196, 531, 652, 656, 660, 700, 850E, 868, 951E, 971E
By MRT:
City Hall MRT (North-South (red) or East-West (green) line)
Esplanade MRT (Circle Line)
By Taxi:
The taxi stand is located at the entrance to Esplanade Mall along Raffles Avenue.