Focu Meu
Benjamin Kahn BE
When Beauty Emerges from Chaos
In the Calabrian dialect ‘focu meu’ means ‘my fire’. This powerful popular expression conveys joy, pain, anger and vitality all at once, but also loss and the will to live.
Drawing on all these shifting feelings of inner fire, Benjamin Kahn creates a sensitive, epic and pagan ceremony. With his performers, musical shockwaves and a play of chiaroscuro lighting, the artist creates a multilayered performance in which bodies and elements intersect and exhaust one another, allowing beauty to emerge from chaos.
Following three much-talked-about solo works, including *Bless the Sound that Saved a Witch like me*, presented at Les Brigittines in March 2026, Benjamin Kahn ventures into group performance for the first time, straddling an intimate cry and a collective polyphony.
Représentations
TicketsConcept, Choreography, Text Benjamin Kahn
Performers Louis Clément Da Costa, Manon Kanjinga Janssen, Nonoka Kato, Orane Bernard, Théo Aucremanne
Original music Raphaël Hénard
Artist advisor Cherish Menzo
Light design Fudetani Ryoya
Costume design Clarisse Brillouet
Technical Director & Lighting Technician Neills Doucet
Sound Technician Sammy Bichon
Production, administration Benjamin Kahn
Distribution, development Sandrine Barrasso
Administrative Coordination Wouter Bouchez
Co-production Les Brigittines, Charleroi danse, Studio Thor, Le Carreau du Temple, One Dance Festival – Plovdiv, Kunstencentrum Viernulvier, December Dance, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, IRA Institute, CCN-Ballet national de Marseille, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création Artistique – Service de la Danse
With the support of IRA Residencies program, Centre national de la danse, KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille, Actoral/Marseille, Wallonie-Bruxelles International
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