Tender anger. The title of the piece for ten dancers by Christian and François Ben Aïm, opening the Suresnes Cités Danse festival on January 10, makes you want to play pétanque with words while trying to get to the heart of the matter. How does tenderness caress anger in the direction of the grain? Is seeing red while thinking sweet really compatible?
On the stage of the Jean-Vilar Theater, in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), these antipodean feelings energize a deeply welcoming show. In its ability to connect everyone’s imagination with a generous dance, Tender anger affirms the humanist gesture of Christian and François Ben Aïm. Carried by 10 young performers with epidermal enthusiasm, the new opus of these brother choreographers, accomplices since 1997, swings from one side to the other to better reconcile the extremes.
This determination to want to bring together is at the forefront of the 33e edition of the Suresnoise event. Under the direction since 2022 of Carolyn Occelli, who succeeded Olivier Meyer, founder of this event, very popular with the public and professionals, Suresnes Cités Danse is taking a turn by detaching itself from its hip-hop identity. “The primary reason for creating the festival was the need to legitimize hip-hop dance, which it no longer needs todayexplains Carolyn Occelli. I inherited this history and I will obviously maintain a place for hip-hop culture. But I want to take off the labels and get out of the boxes to explore what I call “border zones”. »
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