Dance : Stories

Romain Rachline Borgeaud's first original production, Stories, is a musical comedy developed in the heyday of Hollywood film with a series of detailed tableaux, a vintage environment, acting, and tap dance. This multi-talented artist composed the music for the performance, which has a frantic rhythm, frantic tableaux, risky set design, and slam poetry.

The RB Dance Company, under the direction of Romain Rachline Borgeaud, has taken on the task of creating cinema inside cinema, theater within theatre, and now film within comedy. The dancer-actors take turns acting on realistic settings while the narrative is revealed camera-shouldered: Icare, a young actor whose films are popular, is subjected to the controlling power of his director.

He is stuck in the movie that ties him to the director after a disagreement. The play's tug of battle between its hero and the forces that attack, confront, and vanquish him is clear without the need for a subtitle. Stories is an innovative take on the theatrical ballet form that reflects the piece's very metropolitan sounds and opulent image.

Highly evocative ensemble movements combine synchronized dance steps, tap dancing, clockwork precision, and piano notes.