On 12 and 13 June, the Grand Palais Éphémère opened its doors to a crowd of individuals, socially-distanced due to the pandemic, buoyed by the effervescence of a frenzied choreographic score concocted by Boris Charmatz: Happening Tempête.

After the intimacy of La Ronde's series of duets to mark the closure of the Grand Palais for works in March 2021, the choreographer sought to create a sense of collective momentum to break from the constraints that had stopped the public from dancing together until then. Making full use of the exceptional space of the Grand Palais Éphémère, over 150 performers formed a community of dancing bodies for three hours, unfolding in a storm of socially-distanced movements. This was the result of a few snatched hours during lockdown, during which participants could meet in small groups. Participants worked in groups and enjoyed some forty hours of instruction from professional dancers Djino Alolo Sabin, Régis Badel, Mathieu Burner, Ashley Chen, Olga Dukhovnaya, Sidonie Duret, Bryana Fritz, Julien Gallée-Ferré, Rémy Héritier, Tatiana Julien, Solène Wachter and Frank Willens split over several months. Due to the social distancing measures required by the public health crisis, the workshops had to adapt to safety guidelines; certain groups had to be divided into sub- groups, several workshops took place via video link.

Happening Tempête was produced by the Rmn Grand Palais and the company [terrain], with the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, the Compagnie de l Oiseau-Mouche, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and Emmanuelle Huynh's atelier danse performance, in collaboration with the Festival d Automne in Paris.

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