Tenir le temps

In Tenir le temps, created in 2015, Rachid Ouramdane presents a choreographic piece for 16 dancers centered on the notions of group, collective movement and synchronization. The choreographer explores crowd dynamics and the way individuals live together in a common space, between harmony and tension. Repetition, shifts and furtive or insistent interactions create a continuous, hypnotic flow, in which each gesture seems to respond to a discreet urgency: to hold together despite the dissonance.

With no explicit narrative, Tenir le temps reads like a metaphor for the contemporary world, where individuals constantly adapt, cross paths, brush past and sometimes ignore each other. The pervasive, pulsating electronic music acts as a subterranean force that structures movement and provokes a collective trance.

At once anonymous and singular, the dancers make up a living material in perpetual transformation. They portray a world where fragility is constant while beauty emerges from shared movement.