Sweet Rodeo (UA)

Following the success of BANG BANG and LE VENT SE LÈVE last year, Manuel Roque opens a new Leipzig chapter with a world premiere. This pas de deux centers on contact with another person: trust and distance, intimacy, and the emergence of a relationship. It is a highly intimate work in which Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux swing together, towards one another and apart. Like a dancing Möbius strip or the complementary halves of yin and yang, they oscillate and rotate as their constellation and their view of the other shift almost imperceptibly. Excitement, harmony, enthusiasm, and maturity become stages in their shared journey.
As they circle one another like two atoms or planets, they probe the limits of an equilibrium that takes shape only through their presence. Beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new sense of eternity and detachment emerges as the pair begin their flirtation with trance – precise as clockwork and yet vibrantly alive at every moment. At the same time, SWEET RODEO, as an ode to otherness and to others, asks how we instinctively respond to an encounter: do we open ourselves up, or do we protect ourselves? This metaphor of timeless vibrations experienced together is a poetic appeal for listening and generosity.