Champs-Élysées Film Festival - 18 au 25 juin 2024

(LA)HORDE

Founded in 2013 and at the head of Marseille’s National Ballet since 2019, (LA)HORDE is made up of artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel. Through films and performances (Novaciéries (2015), Cloud Chasers (2016), The Master’s Tools (2017), Cultes (2019), Room With A View (2020), Ghosts (2021)), and choreographic works (Night Owl, (2016), To Da Bone (2017), Marry Me in Bassiani (2019), Room With A View (2020)) (LA)HORDE questions the political reach of dancing and maps out the choreographic forms of popular uprising, whether they be massive or isolated, from raves to traditional dances, and jumpstyle. Their exploration of new dynamics of circulation and representation of dance and body developing online notably led them to the concept of “post-internet dances”. By diversifying media, (LA)HORDE questions the quasi-infinite serendipity that this new territory offers, and multiplies the outlooks on revolts that these communities carry, and with whom the collective works in a heterarchical way. Created with the artist Rone, Room With A View is their first choreographic work with Marseille’s National Ballet, which is made up today of twenty seven dancers from sixteen different countries. The following year, they invited four choreographers for a mixed programme: Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty, each incarnating an emblematic choreographic writing, inclusive and militant. In 2022, they presented Roomates, a programme of six short works that connect hyperrealism and minimalism directed by Lucinda Childs, Claude Brumachon and Benjamin Lamarche, Peeping Tom, Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, (LA)HORDE. Alongside it, an important danced exhibition, We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon, that blends musical and action film genres with choreographic avant-garde. In 2023, they presented their new choreographic work with Marseille’s National Ballet, Age of Content. In parallel, they collaborated with renowned artists such as Madonna and Sam Smith as Creative Director of Choreography and with fashion houses such as Burberry and Hermès.