Avignon Festival: Mette Ingvartsen's Fever Nights

Delirious Night. The title of choreographer Mette Ingvartsen's new piece provides the direct access code to a feverish, impetuous night. Spontaneously prone to physical excess, the Danish artist, who settled in Brussels in 2000 and created some twenty pieces, opens a new chapter in her sharp studies of the body, and when dance explodes, it explodes. "It's true that I question behavioral norms a lot, especially the way we look at women's bodies, " she says. " I'm very interested in states of ecstasy, 'heightened' states, so to speak."

Spotted from the start in 2005 with her piece To Come, a slow unfolding of sexual postures, Mette Ingvartsen navigates between shows, performances and installations. As part of the series as fiery as it is offensive entitled The Red Pieces , she questioned sexuality at the crossroads of the intimate and the political. A particularly strong memory of 69 positions (2014), a sort of guided tour on the history of performance during which she wandered, first dressed, then naked, between the spectators and the exhibition panels. At the same time, between 2009 and 2012, she developed various research projects under the title The Artificial Nature Project, exploring the relationship between nature and humans. "I like working with the body, because if my history is classical and contemporary dance, I am also interested in social movements and the issues we all face, which I try to understand through my shows."

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