Room With A View

Created with the artist Rone in 2020 at Theatre du Chatelet (Paris, France), Room With A View is (LA)HORDE’s first choreographic piece with the Ballet national de Marseille, composed of twenty-eight dancers of sixteen nationalities. In a marble quarry, various machines are in action, cutting and polishing the rock. In this otherworldly place and behind his machines, Rone sculpts sweeping electronic and emotional landscapes that he offers to a group of dancers. While sculptors worked with marble to “free the human form inside the block” (Michelangelo), the performers dance to escape the stones’ white immobility, rising up to scrutinize the infinitely human contours of impending disaster and envisaging the very possibility of its beauty. (LA)HORDE continues to explore forms of protest and rebellion through dance. Room with a View is a blank page, a space devised as a naturalist white cube in which sounds, bodies and images can be inscribed to reflect on the shifting place of humanity. For Rone, it provides the opportunity required for a new album, a unique performance in which the cries of his machines resonate, inviting us to breakaway and trace vanishing lines towards songs that exist far beyond mankind itself.