For several years now, French Compagnie DK-BEL has been presenting shows that feature dancers with and without disabilities. Very often, the feedback from the audience is simply: “It’s beautiful…”
From a starting point of poet Charles Baudelaire’s notion of Beauty as linked to the bizarre, to strangeness, to chaos, to pain and the fragility of beings, and adding the impulse of taking flight as a powerful symbol of optimism and unity, “C’est BEAU!” explores how beauty can actually be a conduit between personal and collective and even universal emotion.
The piece by DK-BEL and 6e Sens, which is also being performed as part of the Cultural Olympiad 2024 in Paris, conveys values like sharing, togetherness, kindness and respect. It offers the world a gentle and non-conformist vision of beauty, borrowed from these different concepts, performed in symbiosis with the places it passes through and its audiences’ own perceptions.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at
Contributors
Sophie Bulbulyan (Compagnie DK-BEL), Cécile Martinez, chorégraphe associée (Compagnie 6eSens) (artistic direction and choreography)
Diane de Navacelle de Coubertin (scenography)
Karla Brooker, Aline Dreyer (project management)
Cheickna Wague (communication and documentation)
Pierre Agostini (FR), Hung-Ling Chen (Taiwan), Boubacar Cissé (FR), Florent Devlevaser (Belgium), Aline Dreyer (AT), Natasa Gatsiou (Greece), Romy Kolb (AT), Elisa Martinez (FR), Tchina Ndjidda (Cameroon), Leisa Prowd (Australia), Michée Quenum (FR), Raymond Siopathis (FR), Antonis Strouzas (Greece), Régis Tsoumbou (Gabon) (dancers)
Trifon Koutsourelis (music)
Flora Fabèle (costume
Sonja Zobel (Programme Manager Performing Arts and Literature)
Maria Neumayr-Wimmer, Marian Holzlmüller (production)
