20 Dancers for the XX Century and Cercles are two projects by French choreographer Boris Charmatz in which Asha Thomas regularly performs. Project descriptions below are from www.borischarmatz.org
© Fréderic Lovino20 dancers for the XX century presents a living archive. Twenty dancers perform, recall, appropriate, reenact, lecture and transmit acclaimed yet forgotten solo works of the last century that were originally conceived or performed by some of the most significant modernist and postmodernist dancers, choreographers, and performance artists. Each performer presents his or her own museum, where the body is the ultimate space for the dance museum. Hence there is neither a stage nor a demarcation of performance space. More than legacy, this project deals with a kind of archeology: excavating gestures from the past, to be performed by a dancer’s body in the present.
Latest editions where Asha Thomas appears:
27 Sept. 2025 -Théâtre du Beauvaisis, Beauvais, France
31 May 2025 - Fundação de Serralves as part of Serralves im Festa, Porto, Portugal
25, 26 & 27 April 2025 - Opernhaus, Wuppertal, Germany
With CERCLES, Boris Charmatz invites 200 amateurs to take part in an XXL choreographic workshop. After several days of transmission behind closed doors, the choreographer and his team present the public with this giant workshop : for a few nights, spectators are invited to share a warm-up with the group of dancers, then watch the radiating blossoming of a dance taking shape.
Previous editions:
July 2026 - Les Nuits de Fourvière, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
July 2025 - Grand Palais RMN Paris, France
June - July 2024 - Festival d’Avignon, Stade de Bagatelle, France
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