900 something days spent in the XXth century

900 is about the number of days that Némo Flouret spent in the 20th century. Too little time for him to remember the European utopias of the end of the millennium or to perceive anything more than their skeletons: the great building sites that served as his playgrounds and the transport lines that seemed to stretch to infinity. It is these places not dedicated to dance - railway warehouses, parking lots or tunnels, disused factories - that have nourished Némo Flouret's choreographic work for several years. With its bodies thrown on the asphalt to the rhythm of a faded eurodance, caught in the loop of a protocol doomed to failure, 900 Something Days questions the notions of urgency and obsolescence, of expenditure and accelerationism. Conceived with eight performers, a machinist, a lighting designer and dozens of kilometers of magnetic coils, this nomadic project adapts to each of the places it encounters; the next step of its itinerary brings it to the Chaudronneries de Montreuil, a former metal factory that will become the theater of this machinic ritual.

"The number of years I have lived in the twentieth century can be counted on the fingers of one hand. That's enough to miss the European humanist ideal and too little to see anything but the carcass: the industrial and commercial infrastructures whose transit networks stretch to infinity.

The impetus for 900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century comes from the desire to bring this ruin to an end." 

Némo Flouret

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