Invisible memories come to life in a performative haunted house.

How do ghosts manifest themselves today? In a transitional space where echoes and fragments of light wander, four performers let themselves be flooded by gestures, words, images, sensations, memories, hallucinated material and fictions. With a few spotlights, a mirror and a piece of chalk, Music Hole offers a sensory and subliminal journey through our psyche and our beliefs, hovering between dance mania, cathartic performance and contemporary phantasmagoria.

For his new work Music Hole, Steven Michel uses the figure of the ghost to investigate our relationship with time passing, memory and the invisible. Inspired by spiritualist practices and the concept of hauntology, which refers to ghostly traces that infiltrate time, invade the present and generate impressions of déjà-vu, the choreographer explores and translates this ghostly imagination onto the stage.

Steven Michel's career follows two tracks: he dances in other people's creations (with Jan Martens, Maud Le Pladec, Falk Richter) while creating his own work. In his creations, he is particularly interested in interdisciplinary collaborations, both with the visual artist Théo Mercier (with their creation Affordable Solution for Better Living for which they received the Silver Lion at the 2019 Venice Dance Biennale), and with the visual artists Sarah and Charles (for THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS) and the composer Raphaëlle Latini (for DATADREAM), to name but a few.