(LA)HORDE / Ballet national de Marseille

We want the Ballet to become a place of creation, a place of circulation and of sharing, by defending not only our work, but also by inviting artists that inspire us and make us think. We thought of a programme with four artists, who represent different aesthetics and choreographies, but who are united by their humanity. It’s actually their singularities that unite them. — (LA)HORDE - Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel


At the direction of CCN Ballet national de Marseille since 2019, the collective (LA)HORDE brings together the artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel. Through films and performances (Novaciéries, 2015; The Master’s Tools, 2017; Cultes, 2019), and choreographic pieces (To Da Bone, 2017; Marry Me in Bassiani, 2019), (LA)HORDE interrogates the political component of dance and maps diverse choreographic forms of popular uprising, from raves to traditional dances, to jumpstyle. Their exploration of the new dynamics of circulation and representation of dance and body that develop online led them to create the concept of «post-internet dances». After Room With A View created in 2020 with the artist RONE, they present a mixed programme with the Ballet national de Marseille reuniting Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty. By diversifying formats, (LA)HORDE questions the almost infinite serendipity that this new territory provides and proposes multiple perspectives on the uprisings of the communities with whom they work in a non-hierarchical way.