Le Concert de l’Hostel Dieu x Compagnie Käfig
Wednesday 1 July
Seated performance (unreserved seating) Doors open at 8pm for the 9pm performance €40
In partnership with the J.S. Bach International Music Centre
A baroque, hip-hop-inspired extravaganza, combining music and dance
« Je suis la Folie
Celle qui seule inspire
Le plaisir, la douceur
Et la joie au monde. » Henry de Bailly
Locura (meaning ‘madness’ in Spanish) was born out of a collaboration between Mourad Merzouki and Franck-Emmanuel Comte centred on Folia, which premiered in 2018 at the Nuits de Fourvière festival. A huge international success, this baroque hip-hop ballet has enchanted more than 100,000 spectators across Europe.
With this new production, the Concert de l’Hostel Dieu has sought to extend, celebrate and deepen the unique bond forged between baroque music and hip-hop dance. This project explores the fluidity of artistic boundaries even further, affirming a desire to foster dialogue between different aesthetics, to blend artistic languages and to create a space where bodies and sounds respond to one another in perfect harmony.
Locura explores human madness not as a deviation, but as a force for transgression and openness. This madness—the kind that drives people to cross boundaries—geographical, cultural, aesthetic, and inner—becomes a vital impulse and a source of inspiration.
By celebrating creative madness, Locura invites everyone to embrace one another, to recognise in each other a part of themselves. The performance thus becomes a poetic ritual: a moment in which we are reminded that humanity, despite its divisions, always strives for unity.
PROGRAMME
Henry de Bailly – « Yo soy la locura » (Air de ballet, Passacalle de la Follie – Paris, 1614)
Antonio Sartorio – « Quando voglio » (Air extrait de Cesare in Egitto – Venise, 1676)
Henry Purcell – Curtain Tune (Timon of Athens – Londres, 1694)
Santiago de Murcia – Tarentellas (Codex Saldivar – Mexico, vers 1730)
Tarquinio Merula – Canzonetta spirituale sopra alla nanna (Venise, 1636)
Antonio Vivaldi – Sonate La Follia RV 63 (Op. 1 – Venise, 1703)
Anonyme – Donna Isabella (Canzone napolitaine – Naples, vers 1750)
Anonyme – Suite de tarentelles napolitaines instrumentales (collectage, début XIXe siècle)
Barbara Strozzi – « Che si può fare » (Air, Op. 8 – Venise, 1664)
Anonyme – La Carpinese (Tarentelle napolitaine – Naples, vers 1750)
Antonio Vivaldi – Allemande (Sonate n°7 pour violoncelle RV 44 – Venise, vers 1720)
Anonyme – Cachua Serranita (Codex Martínez Compañón – Trujillo (Pérou), vers 1780-90)
