Same old songs

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s *Three Guineas*, Maud Blandel envisions a choreographic hallucination to ward off war. Performed by three dancers and accompanied by a percussive soundscape, *Same Old Songs* upends the balance of power in a chaotic and intensely physical sonic journey.

Written in 1938, on the eve of World War II, *Three Guineas* begins with a dizzying question: What can be done to prevent war? In this text, the author links the logic of war to patriarchal structures and seeks a form of resistance through writing. Nearly a century later, Maud Blandel, in turn, takes up this question in the face of the resurgence of militaristic narratives and the logic of war in contemporary political and media discourse. From Virginia Woolf, the choreographer draws on both anger and humor, as well as a sense of powerlessness and a refusal to resign herself to it. Together with musicians Romain Simon and Flavio Virzì, she crafts an intense journey in which dance and music move forward together in a flow of drumbeats, anarchic rhythms, and collective syncopations. Amid this organized chaos, *Same Old Songs* seeks a way to reject powerlessness and to invent, in the heart of disorder, another possibility for the future.