This Temps Fort looks at the issue of taking ownership of work and questions choreographers and their sources of inspirations. Where do they come from and how do they get here from there? We look at the world of music, images, literature, mythology, tales…

With his work Cassette David Wampach reveals his highly personal interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s famous Nutcracker. Thomas Lebrun revisits Death and the Maiden inspired by Schubert’s dark string quartet. The company Toujours après minuit foraged in the micrograms written by the Swiss writer Robert Walzer, for the raw materials in their danced story Avant-Propos. Karine Ponties and Béatrice Alemagna interweave choreography and illustration. Pascale Houbin takes great works from French song and turns them into dance. The Compagnie Retouramont expresses the myth of Ariane in a tangle of bodies and string. In l’Ogresse des archives et son chien by the company CFB451, characters leap out of tales like springs gushing from the ground. Andréa Sitter places the performer and her choreographic itinerary at the heart of repossession of the work in her choreography La cinquième position. Without forgetting Hervé Diasnas, Georges Momboye, Radhouane El Meddeb…

Strong weather ahead with this “Temps Fort” – a tumultuous journey to the heart of the works.

(the list beside is in alphabetical order by titles of plays)