‘With Silent Legacy, Maud Le Pladec explores heritage with two amazingly free and imaginative performers. Adeline Kerry Cruz is 8. Hailing from Montréal, this student of Jr Maddripp practices krump—a street dance which appeared in Los Angeles in the early 2000s-far from its native California.

Audrey Merilus is a professional dancer who has mastered many contemporary styles and techniques. With the choreographer, they decide what to make of this meeting: two solos, like two anchors in a shared space, like a discussion. What legacies do they carry within themselves, and how can one invent one's own dance? Far from being a neutral arbiter, Maud Le Pladec invites us to a vision of dance as sensory expression, when the meeting of cultures and know-hows shows the exploding vitality of teachings and legacies. Accompanied by DJ and composer Chloé Thévenin, she offers with Silent Legacy a poetic manifesto whose subtext could be to decondition dance to help the performer experience their own.’

Festival d’Avignon, 76e Edition

With Adeline Kerry Cruz, Audrey Merilus

Conception Maud Le Pladec

Choreography solo Adeline Kerry Cruz Maud Le Pladec and Jr Maddripp

Choreography solo Audrey Merilus Maud Le Pladec and Audrey Merilus

Music Chloé Thévenin

Set design and lights Eric Soyer

Costumes Christelle Kocher assisted by Marion Régnier

Choreography assistant Régis Badel

Vocal work and musical dramaturgy Dalila Khatir et Pere Jou

Diffusion and development A propic / Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent and Lara van Lookeren

Stage manager Fabrice Le Fur

Lignts manager Nicolas Marc

Sound manager Vincent Le Meur

Production Centre chorégraphique national d'Orléans

Co-production Festival d'Avignon, Parbleux Centre culturel canadien a Montreal, Chaillot Theâtre national de la Danse (Paris) with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale, Le Carreau Scène nationale de Forbach et de l'Est mosellan, la Scène nationale d'Orléans, Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Belgium), Fontenay-en-Scènes (Fontenay-sous-Bois), le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France

Residencies Centre chorégraphique national d'Orléans, Théâtre d'Orléans in collaboration with the Scène nationale d'Orleans, Parbleux Centre culturel canadien à Montral

The Centre chorégraphique national d'Orléans is supported by the Ministère de la Culture Drac Centre-Val de Loire, Ville d'Orléans, Région Centre-Val de Loire, Conseil départemental du Loiret. The Centre receives support from the French Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its foreign tours.