The Pretty Things

Five individuals. Their movements are on repeat like in a symphonic canon. They are unshakeable. The rhythm of a metronome soon fills the room. The protagonists, who have become machines, start to move in a rush – the effort increases and gradually gives way to exhaustion. As the choreography becomes more bold, a dynamic of liberation arises, trying to break out of the cyclical prison without ever deviating from the rhythm. Despite the collective’s harmless presentation, they play with a systematic progression, the smell of cheap veneer about to crack. The Pretty Things is a piece full of tension that exposes the mechanical use of bodies. Catherine Gaudet thus reflects the contradictory impulses of our time and explores the false pretenses of the show business apparatus.

After the performance on May 31: Talk with the artists

"A fantastic dance production that I would definitely see again (...). The dancers move for an hour without a break. We watch them in this really unbelievable physical expenditure and are drawn into something hypnotic (...). I was highly fascinated by it!"
Elisabeth Nehring, review at FAZIT, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 15 May 2023

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