Festival Parallèle 15,

February 5 at 19:00
3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence

Performance
Duration: 40 min

In co-presentation with 3 bis f centre d’arts contemporains et le Théâtre Antoine Vitez

Popularized in 1996 through the Bayside Boys remix, the Macarena—a dance whose gestures are embedded in the bodies of multiple generations—emerges as a shared bodily language. It crosses social and cultural boundaries, responding to a universalist fantasy of a collective body. It appears as readily in presidential campaigns as in family meals, parties, and flash mobs, becoming a ritual, a shared movement that leaves its imprint everywhere.
Laju and Théophylle take up the steps of the Macarena in order to divert them, transform them, and exhaust them, exploring their unifying power and hypnotic mechanics. Through relentless repetition, they question embodied memory and the affects attached to these standardized gestures. They turn this dance into a space of communion, where tensions between conformism and collective exaltation are replayed, cracking open expectations of the body in representation.

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Théophylle Dcx and Laju Bourgain perform as a duo for the first time. Their practices converge around resistance. They draw from the urgency of personal testimony, transforming wounds into musical manifestos. They cultivate shared ecstasy, carving spaces of freedom in sweat. Together, they weave an aesthetic of joyful survival: their bodies become living archives of a generation that refuses to disappear. Between political rage and celebration, they invent rituals in which the collapse of the world allows, at the very least, the reinvention of bonds of friendship. Their performances are both refuge and weapon, sanctuary and barricade. Coming from visual arts, Laju and Théophylle work across different mediums; they both practice performance, writing, and video. Laju is also a DJ, while Théophylle works in ceramics and drawing.

Parallèle 15 is about forty artists, performances, visual art exhibitions, screenings, readings, meetings, and partys.

Laju Bourgain & Théophylle Dcx
_macarena

2026

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