KHAOS

If our reality starts to look more and more like chaos, if all our efforts to reimpose order simply draw us deeper into its absence, then we must learn to recognize chaos, to ponder it and create with it, because it won’t be long before it’s the only model we have for the future.

How does chaos translate into dance? Can a choreography be truly chaotic, meaning that it doesn’t repeat so much as a single phrase or motif, that it embraces the unknown and unfamiliar?

It is questions like these -questions which Laurent Chétouane has posed in the past- that form the epicenter of this, his latest work, which was co-produced by the Onassis Stegi. “KHAOS” is an artistic experiment which sets itself in opposition to current trends in ‘chaos-phobia’ by embracing chaos and the instability it brings and making it creative -meaning enjoyable for dancers and audience alike.

A specially-designed speaker system intervenes in the work’s aural perception to create unstable, ‘musically chaotic’ zones for audience and performers (four dancers and three musicians). Musically, the work takes as its starting point compositions by J.S. Bach, John Cage and Wolfgang Rihm, which is to say composers who introduced the random and the unfamiliar into the game of composition. Through the artistic process, Laurent Chétouane recasts chaos as a creative force, granting us an utterly unique experience which will make us rebrand the disturbance of order as an opportunity for new worlds to come into being before our eyes.