Dance : Dividus

A first choral composition that was an immediate hit with both crowds and reviewers upon its Avignon Festival debut!

Nacim Battou's intention to create a dystopia that envisioned a world without live performance—a post-apocalyptic future that raises concerns about the present—was the initial inspiration for all that followed.

Dividus is the end product, a query about the significance of art in our lives at a time when it is vanishing. The seven dancers' bodies and spirits are occupied by a frenzy of living, exchanging, meeting, and loving in return, making them more alive than ever.
The performance begins with a prologue that features footage of dancing in the landscape and camera movements that concentrate on people's faces and bodies, and it ends in the atmosphere of a crazy night out at a club.

Meanwhile, the combination of performers and the fusion of the choreographer's favorite dance forms, hip hop and contemporary dance, have done their work, energizing the group as a whole.

It's the only means of preventing the collapse of an aculturated world devoid of purpose and meaning.

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