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Recording: 2024-10-26 , Sophiensæle (Video © Bickmann & Kolde GbR)

Thibault Lac

Blue Roses

Sophiensæle

Production Details / Press Releases

Thibault Lac – winner of the ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award and known for his work with Mathilde Monnier, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ligia Lewis and Trajal Harrell – brings his new solo performance Blue Roses to Germany for the first time.

In a camp reverie that embraces its sentimental edge, Thibault Lac ventures into swampy territory, at once repulsive and seductive. An array of ghosts, old-fashioned archetypes and contemporary mythologies intersect on the threshold of different temporalities. A subjective pantheon of hybrid fantasies unfolds, navigating personal and collective memories. Conceived as a poem collection, a herbarium or a flower bouquet, Blue Roses is composed, decomposed and recomposed in a dance that brings together the grotesque and melancholy.

Thibault Lac studied architecture before graduating from P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. Performing with Mathilde Monnier, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Ligia Lewis, Noé Soulier and Price among others, he is, until today, a recurring presence in the work of American choreographer Trajal Harrell. Alongside, Lac dedicates himself to collaborative and interdisciplinary projects as an author: Fool’s Gold and Such Sweet Thunder, created in collaboration with choreographer Tore Wallert and composer Tobias Koch, was awarded the Young Choreographers’ Prize at Impulstanz Festival in Vienna. In the frame of the program “Artiste accompagné” by Centre National de la Danse, he co-authored the piece Knight-Night with Bryana Fritz. The pair will further their collaboration with a new project in 2025.

[Source: sophiensaele.com]

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Cast & Credits

Concept, performance: Thibault Lac
Lighting design: Alice Panziera
Textiles, textures: Lotte de Jager
Music contributions: Alban Schelbert, Tobias Koch
Outside eye: Lisa Laurent, Bryana Fritz, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Mickey Mahar
Development, coordination: Clémentine Dubost
Thanks to: Camille Leprince, James Bidgood, Mariah Carey, Ophelia, Antonio Castro, Natalie Portman, Biblis, Aude Martino, Taos Bertrand, Stephen Thompson, Perle Palombe, François Ségallou & Philippe Quesne / Vivarium, Ottolinger

A production by Thibault Lac and Rocinante in co-production with Belluard Bollwerk, Ménagerie de verre and CND Centre national de la danse – Pantin.
With the support of the Schweizer Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia.

Sophiensæle

Sophienstraße 18
10178 Berlin

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Tickets: (030) 283 52 66

Video Documentation

The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):

University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)

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