An Evening with (LA)HORDE

For the last 15 years the French collective (LA)HORDE has been pushing the boundaries of dance through multidisciplinary performances, exhibitions, fashion and music collaborations, and, since 2019, as artistic directors of the Ballet national de Marseille. The moving image has been a steady facet of their practice of “postinternet dance,” which considers the ways in which technology has reframed how bodies move and interact across public space, online networks, and the stage. Attuned to the digital platforms and modes of circulation that have transformed access to subcultures, audiences, and self-representation at the tap of a screen, (LA)HORDE’s films explore the social resonance of dance in our rapidly shifting digital age.

On the occasion of the Ballet national de Marseille’s performance Age of Content at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, (LA)HORDE—comprised of artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel—join us to present a selection of their films. In works from the 2010s, (LA)HORDE explore how jumpstyle dance migrated from underground clubs to YouTube (Novaciéries) and cast the residents of a Paris suburb—synchronized swimmers, senior citizen dance enthusiasts, a local moto club—into a kinetic portrait film of their town (Bondy). The screening also includes the world premiere of two new works: a document of the Ballet national de Marseille’s collaboration with Lucinda Childs from afar during the pandemic (How to Work) and a contemporary dance for camera made by outfitting dancers with iPhone cameras during a performance at the Louvre (Deep Stream). Throughout, (LA)HORDE makes a case that physical bodies, virtual avatars, transgression, and community are all to be found in dance today.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artists, moderated by Sophie Cavoulacos, associate curator in the Department of Film.

Novaciéries, 2015. 17 min.
Bondy, 2017. 16 min.
How to Work, 2025. 23 min. World premiere
Deep Stream, 2025. 14 min. World premiere
Program approx. 70 min.