After me the flood

Since 2013, the (LA)HORDE collective has been probing the world through a transdisciplinary approach where choreography is at the center. Pour le Ballet National de Marseille, the trio creates Après-moi le déluge, a strange contemporary tale that stages the drama of catastrophe, and how to heal a world in decline. Noticed with the hit Room with a view (2020) where a pop and rebellious dance erupted on Rone's mix, the (LA)HORDE collective once again questions power structures and spaces of protest in Après-moi le déluge. The twelve performers of the Ballet national de Marseille – which the trio Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel has directed since 2019 – embody a mythical community, exhausted by crises. In an attempt to stop the infernal machine in which they are entangled, they fracture the ground to open, on stage, an infernal abyss from which monstrous creatures spring. Through a succession of sketches, where the dance promises to be dynamic and catchy, a multiplicity of rituals emerges to question on one hand the relations of domination between these beings and on the other hand the possibilities for getting out of them.