(LA)HORDE
Collective
France
© Olivier Metzger
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents, in collaboration with Sadler's Wells, Age of Content by (LA)HORDE with the Ballet national de Marseille as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival in London. The initiative is also supporting the creation of a new performance by the collective, presented at the Louvre to close the exhibition Figures of the fool. From the Middle Ages to the Romantics.
Founded in 2013, (LA)HORDE is a collective of three artists: Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel. Together, they question the conventions of various artistic disciplines, particularly within the fields of live performances and contemporary art. At the head of the CCN – Ballet National de Marseille since September 2019, (LA)HORDE creates choreographic pieces, films, video installations, and performances around the body in movement. Using multiple media, it develops scenarios and actions rooted in contemporary issues; these are then set in several narrative spaces. (LA)HORDE collaborates with communities of marginalized individuals—senior citizens, blind persons, smokers, adolescents—to spend time with and accompany them in artistic solidarity. Opposed to all forms of hierarchy and cultural appropriation, they practice interconnection and cooperation. Anxious and on the lookout, they are on high alert and the body is at the center of their creation. They create works derived from their encounters with different communities online, to define what dance has become since the advent of the internet. Dear to (LA)HORDE, this subject has led the members of the collective to describe the phenomenon using the concept of post-internet dance.
