Description
Dionysian festivals, dances of death, nocturnal trances, tarantellas… there are many reasons to dance in cultures around the world. Carnival is one of them. Heyoka invites you to let yourself be swept up in the carnival fever for a participatory project as part of the Mulhouse Carnival.
In her ongoing quest to open up and bring together diverse audiences, Nathalie Pernette explores the potential interplay between music, dance, cross-dressing, rites, and rituals to offer us a festive and liberating escape. Heyoka affirms the place of dance in our lives, its spiritual and sacred dimension, and its visceral connection to nature and all living things. This carnival-inspired production features a troupe of professional dancers, joined by teams of collaborators who have prepared for this project by designing costumes, masks, and dances to fully participate in this special moment. The time for mockery, reversal, and permitted rebellion has come—the carnival has begun—to ward off fears and celebrate madness. Endlessly repeated refrains, chanted poems, danced verses, and rhythmic chants set the pace for the procession and promise all participants a bubble of dance-induced euphoria.
Free
