The Collection

From Schuhplattler – the traditional Tyrolean dance in which performers strike the soles of their shoes and their thighs with their hands – Sciarroni creates a series of combinations that test the dancers’ physical endurance. As in the film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, the piece ends when there is only one dancer left on stage – or no more audience!

Coming from the visual and performing arts world, Sciarroni is fascinated by the limits of physical performance and the exhaustion of forms, as he had already shown in 2016 with his TURNING_Motion Sickness, a real mystical experience created for the Lyon Opera Ballet. Here, the Italian choreographer works again with the company to re-create one of his iconic works, the third part of a triptych begun with Untitled and Aurora. Taking motifs inspired by the Tyrolean Schuhplattler, Sciarroni rewrites traditional ideas and transposes them into the collective imagination of clubbing, in order to better connect them to our times.

On stage, a relentless mechanism reveals, through small variations on a pre-established motif, a metaphor for the world and the time in which we live. A post-modern performance, both physical and intellectual, totally hypnotic, that takes form and intention to the point of exhaustion.

Photo: © Marc Domage