Benoît Lachambre - Lifeguard

The performances take place in three phases with the audience entering at 6:30 pm, 7:00 pm and 7:15 pm. The first group will consist of 15 people, the second of 25-30. The third and last group will view at least 1h15’ of Lifeguard. Benoît Lachambre will ask viewers to take their shoes off before entering.
A solo by and with Benoît Lachambre, Lifeguard seeks to deconstruct the notion of the "choreographic impulse" by reviewing the presence and resonance of movement, beyond established aesthetic codes, and revealing the many facets of one’s own feelings in the time and place and inviting the audience to experience them with no inhibitions under a new and different light.
Lifeguard, a piece of intimate and vibrant wandering, is a choreographic action that develops in different ways depending on the space and the perception it elicits.
Aimed at building a highly intimate atmosphere, Lifeguard is best set in venues that create close contact between the dancers and the viewers, making it possible to examine the movement meticulously and to interrogate the common projections of the senses on the relationship.
Offering his body, Lachambre reveals the magnetic charisma of beings; reaching beyond the limits of connection, the performer and the audience plough new fields of exchange.
The author explains: “Sometimes minimalist, sometimes vibrant, the movement follows the unpredictable dance of gathered lives. Moving, vital, sometimes comic, Lifeguard rekindles our need to be together in a sacred ritual”.
Using a syncopated choreographic vocabulary and undulating movements, Benoît Lachambre offers a new range for the expression of the body, in search of sensory co-habitation. A subtle connection fosters a blend of tenderness and vulnerability between the audience and the performer, while on the stage the body flows with tangible agility into a quasi-state of trance.