GOLD SHOWER

When Japanese butoh dancer Akaji Maro, a master of the strange and the absurd, meets François Chaignaud, a protean singer and choreographer, their genre-bending duet tranforms into a pagan ritual: a celebration of the body in all its forms. A cross portrait of two indescribable figures, GOLD SHOWER transcends differences, where the beauty of disorder is at the heart of the game.

For Akaji Maro, butoh is a disipline of emptiness: a way to let the body mutate until it becomes a receptacle of endless projections and associations. Since discovering Думи мої (Dumy Moyi, the solo piece by François Chaignaud, Akaji Maro was struck by the fluidity of this figure in a state of constant transformation. The duo born out of their encounter brings together two radically different cultural universes. Drawing on thier respective frames of reference, playing on their alterity, their ages and all the projections they give rise to, they create a porous space-time that is conducive to deviation and incandesence. Creating a secret rite whose coordinates they invent, they move from courtship to sado-masochistic play, from the grotesque to the unsettling, from eroticism to pure rhythmicity. From masks to masquerades, they blur identities and genders, shaping their beings to reveal bodies whose radical strangeness recalls the Japanese concept of "myo": "excellent to the point of being inexplicable."