(LA)HORDE / Ballet national de Marseille: Age of Content
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3 performances
26.5-28.5.2026
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Duration
1 H 15 min (no intermission)
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Venue
Erkko Hall
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Tickets
56,50–29 €
Show times
Tue 26.5. at 19.30
Wed 27.5. at 19.30
Thu 28.5. at 19.30
Note
Contains intermittent loud music, flashing lights, theatrical smoke, and mature sexual themes
Introduction
A poetic, intense and politically charged work by one of today’s most talked-about dance collectives.
Emerging from the Paris underground artist scene, Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel have turned their trio (LA)HORDE into a trailblazer of contemporary art – a hyped phenomenon whose influence reaches beyond the stage into fashion, film and music. Since 2019, the collective has led Ballet National de Marseille, bringing the company to the forefront of international contemporary dance.
(LA)HORDE is known for works exploring post-internet dance, examining movement forms born and circulated online, and how digital culture reshapes the ways bodies are presented. Their pieces draw from fashion, video games and club scenes, bringing the aesthetics of virtual worlds and pop culture onto the stage.
The acclaimed Age of Content is a powerful showcase of their vision – a visually stunning work on how the digital era transforms embodiment, desire, and our ways of connecting with one another.
The title plays with meaning: it refers both to an age flooded with content and to the age of consent – the threshold at which one is considered capable of giving sexual consent. But to what extent do we still own our bodies – our consent – in the virtual realm?
On stage, 18 dancers of the Ballet National de Marseille move like characters in a video game. Avatar-like figures perform movement languages familiar from virtual worlds, such as jumpstyle, twerking, vogue, along with echoes of 1970s postmodern dance. Different influences and aesthetics intertwine into an electric dance hybrid of the future.
Age of Content is a pompous post-postmodern, post-Barbie and post #MeToo opera
– Resmusica
The performances are part of the Dance House Helsinki's series of international guests, which brings the most interesting dance groups and artists to Finland. The series is supported by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
(LA)HORDE
Since 2013, (LA)HORDE brings together the artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel. This collective of choreographers and visual artists, who took on the direction of the Ballet national de Marseille in 2019, has always developed a collaborative project with several online communities that has given rise to several multidisciplinary and cross-community creations.
Through films and performances (Novaciéries, 2015; The Master’s Tools, 2017; Cultes, 2019 ; Ghosts, 2021), and choreographic pieces (Night Owl, 2016 ; To Da Bone, 2017; Marry Me in Bassiani, 2019; Room With A View, 2020), (LA)HORDE interrogates the political component of dance and maps diverse choreographic forms of popular uprising, transitioning from raves to traditional dances, as well as jumpstyle.
Their exploration of the new dynamics of circulation and representation of dance and body that develop online led them to work on the concept of "post-internet dances". By diversifying formats, (LA)HORDE questions the almost infinite serendipity that this new territory provides and proposes multiple perspectives on the uprisings of the communities with whom they work in a heterarchical way.
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Credits
Artistic Concept and Direction: (LA)HORDE — Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel
Choreography: (LA)HORDE in collaboration with the dancers and rehearsal coaches of the Ballet national de Marseille
Artistic Assistants: Nadia El Hakim, Laure Bruno
Artistic Collaborators – Choreography: Valentina Pace, Jacquelyn Elder, Angel Martinez Hernandez, Julien Monty
Stage Design: Julien Peissel
Technical Advisors: Rémi d’Apolito, Julien Parra
Backdrop Visuals: Frederik Heyman
Music: Pierre Avia, Gabber Eleganza, Philip Glass
Sound Engineer: Jonathan Cesaroni
Lighting Design: Eric Wurtz
Lighting Assistants: Gaspard Juan, Vincent Ribes
Costume Stylist: Salomé Poloudenny
Costume Assistants: Nicole Murru, Sandra Pomponio, Minok Terre
Hair Direction: Charlie Le Mindu
Hair Assistant: Sky Flores
Stunt Coaching and Consulting: Stunt Workshop International – Amedeo Cazzella, Alex Vu, Malik Diouf, Yann Brouet, Jonathan Bernard, Patrick Tang
Vocal Coaching: Deborah Bookbinder
Research and Documentation: Timothée Engasser
Dancers, Ballet national de Marseille:
Nina Auerbach, Isaïa Badaoui, Alida Bergakker, Arno Brys, João Castro, Isla Clarke, Pierpaolo Cosentino, Titouan Crozier, Nathan Gombert, Jonatan Jorgensen, Yoshiko Kinoshita, Dana Pajarillaga, Aya Sato, Elena Valls Garcia, Luca Völkel, Layne Paradis Willis, Lung Ssu Yen
Stage Construction:
Built in collaboration with: MC2 workshops – Maison de la Culture de Grenoble (scène nationale), Sud Side – Les Ateliers Spectaculaires (Marseille), Atelier Contrevent, Soudure Duret With the participation of: Julien Parra, Dimitri Bovas, Théophile Eschenauer, Christophe Lanes, Sébastien Mathé, Milan Petrucci, Kostia Pozniakoff
Low Rider Programming: Luís Parra
Decoration: Cristian Zurita
Stage Manager: Rémi D’Apolito
Ticket Information
Standard Ticket | A 56,50 – B 51,50 €
Pensioners | A 51,50 – B 46,50 €
Discount Ticket | A 34,50 – B 29 € Under 25, students, unemployed, civil servants and conscripts.
Professionals | A 34,50 – B 29 € Members of STST and SVÄV.
Please be prepared to present proof of eligibility for the discount.
PWYC | A small number of "Pay What You Can" tickets are also on sale for the performance. PWYC tickets are available at the Cable Factory's info point, and online here. Read more about Pay What You Can tickets and other ticket information.
To ensure good visibility to everyone, The Erkko Hall auditorium is steep. Please note that there is no lift to the upper section. Only the first row seats are fully accessible.
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