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In just a few albums, Rone has secured his place as one of the most influential French producers around, putting some of his own soul into electro. He is now adding another dimension to his career with the creation of the show Room with a View and his eponymous fifth album. Having been invited by the Théâtre du Châtelet for a carte blanche, he was keen to work with (LA)HORDE and consequently with the dancers of the Ballet National de Marseille.
In a marble quarry, various machines are in action, cutting and polishing the rock. In this otherworldly place and behind his machines, Rone sculpts sweeping electronic and emotional landscapes that he offers to a group of dancers.
While sculptors worked with marble to “free the human form inside the block” (Michelangelo), the performers dance to escape the stones’ white immobility, rising up to scrutinise the infinitely human contours of impending disaster and envisaging the very possibility of its beauty.
(LA)HORDE continues to explore forms of protest and rebellion through dance. Room With A View is a blank page, a space devised as a naturalist white cube in which sounds, bodies and images can be inscribed to reflect on the shifting place of humanity. For Rone it provided the opportunity required for a new album, a unique performance in which the cries of his machines resonate, inviting us to break away and trace vanishing lines towards songs that exist far beyond mankind itself.
Ballet national de Marseille
In 1972, the Mayor of Marseille, Gaston Deferre, suggested to choreographer Roland Petit that he move his company to Marseille. Petit accepted and created the Ballets de Marseille, rooting it in the modern choreographic style of the 1970s and 80s.
In 1981, the company became the Ballet national de Marseille (BNM), and 11 years later invested in a site designed by architect Roland Simounet. The BNM then became the National Choreographic Centre in 1984, under the direction of Roland Petit. He was succeeded by Marie-Claude Pietragalla (1998-2004), Frédéric Flamand (2004-2014), and Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten (2015-2019). Each director has developed new artistic dynamics and increased awareness of the center.
The collective (LA)HORDE took over direction of the BNM in 2019.
For (LA)HORDE, the BNM is a safe space, focused on youth and young artists, for exploring new ways of representation and sharing of artistic forms. In their transdisciplinary creations, they question what ballet is in the digital age and consider the political concerns that mark our time: diversity, inclusivity, and openness of institutional and cultural sites to bodies and practices that still do not have enough visibility.
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(LA)HORDE
In 2013, choreographers and visual artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel formed this collective, which took on the direction of the Ballet national de Marseille (BNM) in 2019.
Through films and performances, as well as choreographic pieces, (LA)HORDE interrogates the political component of dance, while mapping diverse choreographic forms of popular uprising, transitioning from raves to traditional dances and jumpstyle. Their exploration of the new dynamics of circulation and representation of dance and body that have developed online led them to explore the concept of “post-internet dances.”
Created with artist Rone in 2020, Room With A View was their first choreographic piece with the BNM. Their landmark works—Room With A View (2020), We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon (2022), Age of Content (2023), and Deep Stream (2024, Musée du Louvre)— address themes such as climate collapse, surveillance, and digital oversaturation. These creations have toured to iconic venues across Paris, New York, London, Lisbon, and Kyoto, consistently selling out and generating international acclaim.
Rone
Erwan Castex, known as Rone, is a leading figure in the French electronic music scene. He won the Prix des Indés in 2017 for his live show at the Philharmonie de Paris and later presented Variations, a reinterpretation of Benjamin Britten’s work with the Maîtrise de Radio France.
He followed with Motion, an electro-classical piece performed with the orchestra Les Siècles, and his music became linked to environmental causes, featured by Greta Thunberg and Hugo Picard (The Sailing Frenchman).
In 2020, his collaborative project Room With A View premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet, followed by the album Rone & Friends (2021), featuring artists like Jehnny Beth, Dominique A, and Flavien Berger.
Rone composed film scores for La Nuit venue and Les Olympiades by Jacques Audiard, winning a César Award for Best Original Music in 2021. He also scored Xavier Giannoli’s series D’Argent et de Sang (Canal+).
In 2023, he released the orchestral album L(oo)ping, and in 2025, he composed the soundtrack for the documentary The Whale and the Musician, inspired by his encounter with humpback whales.
Artistic Concept: Rone & (LA)HORDE
Music: Rone
Staging & Choreography: (LA)HORDE With the dancers of the Ballet national de Marseille
Dancers: Nina Auerbach, Isaia Badaoui, Gabriella Sibeko, Arno Brys, Joao Paulo De Castro Franca, Isla Clarke, Pierpaolo Cosentino, Titouan Crozier, Nathan Gombert, Jonathan Myhre JØrgensen, Yoshiko Kinoshita, Yen Lung-Ssu , Dana Pajarillaga, Kevin Pajarillaga, Aya Sato, Elena Valls Garcia, Luca Völkel, Layne Willis
Set Design: Julien Peissel
Light Design: Eric Wurtz
Costumes Design: Salomé Poloudenny
Sound Manager: Vincent Philippart
Lighting Assistant: Gaspard Juan
Wardrobe: Monique Terre
Stage Director: Julien Parra
Stage Managers: Cécile Jongetjes-Mangareto, Antoine Cahana, Matthias Vollerin
Dance coach: Julien Monty
Commissioned by Théâtre du Châtelet, with Decibels Production and Infiné
Coproduction: Théâtre du Châtelet, Ballet National de Marseille, Grand Théâtre de Provence
Ballet National de Marseille is supported by the French Ministry of Culture / Direction Générale de la Création Artistique, the DRAC Paca, the City of Marseille.
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