At Montpellier Danse, they wanted to look ahead to a new era under the direction of the three choreographers Hofesh Shechter, Dominique Hervieu, Jann Gallois, and cultural manager Pierre Martinez. But everything was overshadowed by a look back at forty years of the festival under the direction of Jean-Paul Montanari who passed away at the end of April. And that also applied to the premiere of the solo Of the Heart – An Étude by Armin Hokmi, written specifically for the Norwegian Katherina Jitlatda Horup Solvang and performed in the courtyard of the Cité internationale de la danse, one day before this poetic, yet mercilessly sun-baked square was renamed Cour Montanari in a solemn, moving ceremony.
Sequences repeat, intensify, and enrich each other with high graphic stringency, while ...
