flesh chariot

The choreographer Faye Driscoll and the Swedish company Cullberg Ballet present a creation for 15 dancers that explores perception and the expressive possibilities of the body.

This contemporary dance piece emerges from the encounter between American choreographer Faye Driscoll and the Cullberg Ballet, a Swedish company with a long and distinguished track record. On stage, 15 performers separate and come together in a continuous succession of images that form and dissolve.

The piece begins with a concern about how we perceive the world when much of our experience reaches us filtered through screens. Driscoll takes that question into the body: the closeness between performers, their postures and their gaze are the resources with which the stage constantly changes.

The movements shift from calm to displacement, from power to collapse and from outburst to tension, until the group appears to function as a collective organism in transformation. The approach sits within Driscoll's universe, whose works oscillate between realism and fantasy. She won the Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal for Weathering (2023) and has received the Doris Duke Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Bessie Award and the Jacob's Pillow Artist Award.