© Pierre Gondard
Show
The Blue Hour
Benjamin Kahn
March 14 – 15, 2026
Running time: 60'
Tickets
Full price: €24
Under 30 / Over 65 / Groups: €17
Students: €12
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The Blue Hour is part of a trilogy of solo works created by dancer and choreographer Benjamin Kahn, a star of the French scene who considers dance and choreography to be powerful political tools. In contrast to his two previous solo works – dedicated respectively to performers Cherish Menzo and Sati Veyrunes – The Blue Hour is the portrait of young dancer Théo Aucremanne. Suspended between night and day, between sleep and wakefulness, the blue hour, or dawn, is a metaphor for modern life, and specifically the moment when our eyes, still red with fatigue from a present suspended between ecological crises, political and social emergencies, struggle to take in the glare of a possible future. Théo Aucremanne fills this deep, silent crevice in time with the substance of his dancing. Alternately constructing and deconstructing, he accompanies us, still sleepy-eyed and vulnerable, towards the dawn of a new awakening in which there is neither fear nor struggle, but rather an expectation filled with the hope of new possibilities, prayers and brighter days.
Benjamin Kahn is a dancer and choreographer based in Brussels. He studied dramaturgy and theatre at the University of Aix en Provence and the Conservatoire de Rennes, and is graduated from ESAC (École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque) in Belgium. Following his studies, he worked with choreographers such as Philippe Saire, Benjamin Vandewalles, Nicole Beutler, Ben Riepe, Frédéric Flamand, Maud Le Pladec, Egle Budvytyte and Alessandro Sciarroni. He is also an outside eye and dramaturgist for other projects (Cuir / Cie Un loup pour l'homme, Darkmatter / Cherish Menzo among others) and teaches dance at the CNAC, ESAC and conservatoires. Since 2019 he created his own projects. Seeing dance and choreography as powerful political tools, he is particularly interested in constructing and deconstructing the way we view individual and collective bodies. Drawing on the interdisciplinarity of his background and the richness of his studio encounters with singular performers, he creates pieces that combine texts, precise choreographic writing and powerful sound and light landscapes to question the issues of the society. Between 2019 and 2023 he will be creating a trilogy of solos: Sorry, But I Feel Slightly Disidentified... (2019), Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me (March 2023) and The Blue Hour (June 2023), questioning projections onto bodies, the gaze, and the link between the intimate and the collective.
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Credits
Concept, artistic direction: Benjamin Kahn
Performance: Théo Aucremanne
Dramaturgy: Youness Anzane
Light Design: Jan Fedinger
Sound Design: Gagi Petrovic
Sound Engineer: Sammy Bichon
Light Engineer: Neills Doucet
Executive production: Actoral Marseille
Touring, development: Sandrine Barrasso
Coproduction and residencies: KLAP Maison pour la danse, Festival de Marseille, Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Thanks to: Studio Thor, avec le soutien de la Compagnie Thor / Thierry Smits, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Louis Daurat and Léonard Degoulet
Calendar
Highlights
Veduta notturna dell’abitazione a cupola geodetica di Füller, progetto dell’allestimento dell’architetto Roberto Mango, realizzata nel parco Sempione per la decima Triennale
Interno del Tunnel Pneu, progetto di Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’urbino e Paolo Lomazzi
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Installazione luminosa "Luce spaziale" di Lucio Fontana sul soffitto dello Scalone d’onore. Nel vestibolo del primo piano, decorazione parietale di Bruno Cassinari