Since taking over the Ballet national de Marseille in 2019, the collective (LA)HORDE has been leaving its mark on today's dance with rare energy. Their two earlier pieces for the company, Room With a View (2020) and Age Of Content (2023), bear this out: an uncompromising approach in which the group sits at the very heart of the writing. This new creation carries the same path forward — a striking epic that sets the individual against the group, casting a clear-eyed, firmly contemporary look at humanity and our societies.
Après moi, le déluge rings out like the echo of a world on the edge of the void, stretched between inheritance and transgression. Fed by the figures of our time, the choreography sharpens the company's distinctive language without giving up anything of what grounds it. Body and gesture are placed in the service of a shared struggle, a resistance from which to imagine an after — a better one, a different one. To do so, Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel once again rely on spectacular staging: the stage becomes the sounding board for a powerful aesthetic, plunging the audience into an extraordinary experience. A cathartic piece for twelve performers, one that shakes the foundations of the world in the hope of seeing joy rise from it.