Where do I come from and where am I going? Those questions are tackled by the 10 dancers of the Vertigo Dance Company, an Israeli company. In Makom, this troupe appears as torn between two ends, shaken by the magnetic forces of repulsion and attraction. Successively sensual and contemplative, eruptive and contained, their bodies swing through branches separating them, supporting them and end up, like a bridge, bringing them closer. In a world where every person is looking for a safe position, choreographer Noa Wertheim pits an artistic world of reconciliation and openness opposing walls and isolation.

Euphoria, exhaustion and pleasure… An intensity of each moment – of each movement – is conveyed by The Great Ball. 8 dancers come to look for what society does not have to offer: quenching a desire to touch and to be touched, a joy that does not need words and the ecstatic feeling of letting go. Their emotions are easily identifiable and are called anger, desire and compassion. From traditional Occitan melodies to exhilarating electronic beats, choreographers Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari set an increasingly quick and contagious pace carrying away all this crowd into a mesmerizing collective trance.

Is a man a wolf to another man? Two brothers, Christian and François Ben Aïm envision their dancers as a pack with a contagious energy, like the heroes and heroines of a Homeric battlefield. 10 interpreters throw themselves onto the stage with all their might, giving in to a furious desire to live. Their arms and legs are powered by instinctive, absurd and ecstatic moves. Out of themselves, do those beings become marionettes, strangers to each other? Or does something as old as the world come back to the surface to carry them away and bring them closer, in some human and mending collective momentum?