The Court is a sensory and groundbreaking experience that invites the audience into a seductive parallel universe where the power games of the past and the desires of the present collide. Inspired by sociologist Avery Gordon’s idea that we are always living side by side with the ghosts of the past, The Court explores Western dance history as a form of dystopian speculative fiction. The production takes us into a space where what we thought was forgotten is still vibrating beneath the surface.

Resonating on the Baroque era’s court parties, where dance was political propaganda and an aristocratic demonstration of power, The Court wrenches history out of its familiar forms. It blends Louis XIV’s spectacular court ballets with contemporary dance aesthetics, rhythms and physical expression in a work that challenges, seduces and disrupts. The result is a timeless, absurd and deeply physical experience, taking Baroque dances, social rituals, desires and fictions from the past and present, and weaving them together in new forms.

The Court is not a production that you ‘see’ – it’s a world that you enter, at your own pace. For more than three hours, the audience can freely come in and out of the room, choosing how they want to follow the nine performers’ constantly changing choreographic landscape.

This is an invitation to lose yourself a little, to feel history physically, and to imagine an unknown future.