Music Hole

In his latest creation Music Hole, Steven Michel takes the figure of the ghost as his starting point to question our relationship to the passage of time, to memory and to the invisible.

Inspired by spiritualist practices and the notion of hauntology – a portmanteau word combining ‘haunt’ and ‘ontology’ which refers to the ghostly traces that persist through time and infiltrate the present, ghostly resurgences that provoke impressions of déjà vu – the choreographer explores and transposes this spectral imagination to the stage.

How do ghosts manifest themselves today? How can bodies become the relay for these invisible presences? How do these ghosts enter our reality? How can a body be taken over by a movement that is past, present and future?

In a liminal space, haunted by sound and light, four performers give themselves over to gestures, words, images, sensations, memories, hallucinated matter and fiction. Somewhere between dance mania, cathartic performance and contemporary phantasmagoria, Music Hole offers a sensory and subliminal journey into our psyche and our beliefs.


Duration: 70 minutes