MIKRO / BARTÓK

Cas Public

How to grow up in a constantly changing world? MIKRO / BARTÓK , Cas Public's new creation, delves into the great adventure of learning. Combining dance, language, and music, the work explores the sensitive foundations of self-construction with aplomb and virtuosity.

Three axes intertwine. First, the game of peek-a-boo, the first awakening to absence and return, which nourishes the child's imagination. Then the acquisition of words, anchored by the verb to be, which structures thought and forges identity. Finally, the music, inspired by Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos - both a musical work and a method designed to introduce his son to the piano - becomes the soundtrack to this poetic journey.

Created by Hélène Blackburn and Cai Glover, this creation leads us to be, appear and disappear, questioning the ephemerality of the things in life. Through a hypnotizing dialogue between movement, speech and sign language, MIKRO / BARTÓK gives shape to the invisible and gives rhythm to the space of apparitions and metamorphoses, where each gesture unveils the mysterious meaning of becoming.

MIKRO / BARTÓK is a playful, sensory voyage, an invitation to see and to listen differently, to feel fully. With this work, Cas Public continues the momentum of its last thirty years, in which wonder never ceases to surprise all audiences, young and old. This inventive, accessible and resolutely contemporary proposal is imprinted on us, without ever disappearing.

credits

Choreography Hélène Blackburn and Cai Glover Performers Alexander Ellison, Anja Justin Fanslau, Leah Hamel, Arnaud Mongeon et Robyn Neumann Rehearsals Shawn Hounsell Music Mikrokosmos by Béla Bartòk Set design and lighting Myriane Lemaire and Hélène Blackburn Costumes Michael Slack and Hélène Blackburn Production Cas Public

A Cas Public production in co-production with the Agora de la danse