In 1938, Virginia Woolf wrote Three Guineas, an epistolary essay in which she demonstrates how war is, structurally, a masculine affair. Today, as international conflicts rage, Maud Blandel takes this text as a starting point and composes a collective hallucination for three dancers, drawing on psychedelic imaginaries to overturn established structures.
In the line of L’Œil nu, presented at the TPM in 2024, Maud Blandel continues her research on sound dramaturgy, sound/movement relationships and intense bodies, at times seized by rhythm, at times stunned. In a percussive, ultra-energetic and disorganised flow, where any attempt at marching in step is deliberately sabotaged, Same Old Songs offers a heterotopia that refuses any warlike project and, in so doing, gives body to another future.