The Amorous Indies

Les Indes Galantes The amorous indies is an operaballet created by Jean Philippe Rameau in 1735 He was inspired for one of the dance by tribal Indian dances of Louisiana performed by Metchigaema chiefs in Paris in 1723 Clément Cogitore adapts a short part of the ballet by mobilizing a group of Krump dancers an art form born in Los Angeles black ghetto in the 1990s Its birth occurred in the aftermath of the beating up of Rodney King and the riots as well as police repression it triggered Amidst this coercive atmosphere young dancers started to embody the violent tensions of the physical social and political body Both the tribal dance performed in Paris in 1723 and the rebelious Krump dancers of the 1990s shape a reenactment of Rameaus original libretto staging young people dancing on the verge of a volcano