A hunting tool, toy or music instrument, the boomerang has been moving through space and our imagination since the dawn of time. Violence has done the same, immemorial and carved into our very humanity, it lives in the present of our lives. This violence is tangible and grows a little day, it invites itself to our side, it interferes with us. It can be sensed in words or actions. It can be seen in the very arcana of our system where words such as growth, flexibility, and productivity lead to devastation.

But violence can also be a strength, just like red means blood as well as a beating heart. The strength of anger and rage that allows for going beyond limits and against the flow, for a boost of gathering, for relentlessly saying no to the face of frenzy.

A variation on the same theme, Boomerang explores different angles of the energy we all have in ourselves, want it or not.

Bouba Landrille Tchouda, triggered by his taste of challenge and play, throws eight dancers on stage to put forth their energies and sensuality in a sometime sharp, sometime poetical or even playful way. He wants to create a dialogue by making moving forces collapse and shedding light on some of our weaknesses and even contradictions. Highlighting how humans can be gruesome and mighty at the same time, by creating situations of submission to power, by reinventing war games and composing life-saving illusions.

Lives and violence.

These two words sound like they have the same starting point. They echo in the way they are used.