Dance performance

Gala

In this photo, over ten people dressed in yellow, red, blue, and other colors stand on a stage with a white dance floor. They are of different gender, age, and body shape, but all are doing a similar dance posture, standing on the right leg with the left leg pointing to the floor, stretching their left hand forward, the right hand up, and tilting the head slightly to the left.
© Photographer Josefina Tommasi, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina, August 2015)

Fri, 16.09.2022 -
Sat, 17.09.2022 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Theatre YOUNG - Main Stage

1155 Kongjiang Road
Yangpu District
Shanghai

Details

Access:
Wheelchair

Ticketing:
 QR Theatre Young

“The gala, an art form that is both festive and collective, brings together dance professionals and amateurs of diverse backgrounds. The different acts never call on us to pass judgement, but they reveal the way in which each person’s cultural repertoire involves them in a singular relationship with that desire for something else, for joy, perfection, transfiguration and political divides which dance is. An inventory of this ‘unqualifiable dance’ does not only show the multiplicity of its aesthetic models. It plays its role through a shared desire.” 

Gala offers a different approach to dance. In this collective art form, Jérôme Bel’s project brings together dance professionals and amateurs of diverse backgrounds. The different acts never call on us to pass judgement, but they reveal the way in which each person’s cultural repertoire involves them in a singular relationship with that desire for something else that dance is.


*Supported by Consulate General of France in Shanghai