A dancer, choreographer and teacher, Jonas Chéreau researches and mediates the component elements of his creations. Activating joy, presenting it to be seen, to be felt: can this be done on a stage, without portraying or illustrating it? And also: who, through emotion or movement, initiates what? The exploration arising from such questioning naturally brings about laughter, less as a response to humour – in spite of contagion – than as a driving force in audio form, a vector of loosening that by extension produces a totally new presence.
The mirroring nature of the title is telling: Joie #wouaj comes and goes between emotional extremes, pivots and oscillates, until it embraces the opposites. If, in the words of Deleuze, “power demands sad bodies”, this work adopts joy as a basic principle and practice of resistance.
“This is a call for lightness, a bid to counteract gravity.”
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Création 2025, adaptation à destination des adolescent·e·s 2026 / Un spectacle de : Jonas Chéreau / Créé avec et interprété par Jonas Chéreau, Catherine Hershey, Emma Tricard / Accompagnement artistique : Marcos Simões / Musique : Christophe Albertijn / Regard : Valérie Castan / Costumes : Marcos Simões / Accompagnement technique : Vic Grevendonk / Administration de production : François Maurisse / Remerciements : Pauline Brun, Pierre Bouglé, Xavier Hinant
Production : Goutte / Coproduction : Charleroi danse, Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, La Maison danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, Le Pacifique CDCN Grenoble AURA (accueils-studio ), Atelier 210, Bain Public, Kunstencentrum BUDA, Pole-Sud CDCN Strasbourg / Soutien : Cndc Angers, Studio Thor, Ministère de la culture - DRAC Île-de-France (aide au projet)
