BRUITS MARRONS

From the music of Julius Eastman, a radical and forgotten figure of the Afro-American avant-garde, Calixto Neto orchestrates a sonic and choreographic ritual, an act of collective resistance, reparation and healing.

Created for six dancers and a piano, Bruits Marrons draws its strength from Evil Nigger (1979), a minimalist, radical and luminous piece by composer Julius Eastman. Black and queer, long kept on the margins, Eastman invested his music with an unprecedented political intensity. Calixto Neto embraces this work wholeheartedly, revealing its tensions, complexity and expressive power. The piano, the colonial instrument par excellence, is displaced and hijacked. Marronnage is understood here as a gesture of creation: a movement of escape and affirmation, of rupture and reparation. Drawing on the body's archives and black memories, six performers dance the tensions, angers and utopias of a maroon heritage shot through with rage and beauty. The stage becomes a territory of reinvention, care and complicity. A radical, poetic exploration of tumult, where music becomes a territory of light and shared revolt.