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Le Soir | Jean-Marie Wynants - 20/06/2021
With this creation for five formidable breakdance performers, Julien Carlier delivers a powerful and fragile choreography, virtuoso and intimate. A jewel.
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Dress Code is a great moment of dance and choreography, with its breaks in rhythm, its back and forth between intimate and the group, its magical staging of bodies on the razor's edge, its moments where the movement, magnified by the light, becomes almost abstract, freeing itself from the body...
La Libre | Marie Baudet- 23/06/2021
Scrutinized from the inside by Julien Carlier, hip hop goes beyond the frame. Fascinating.
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Without overshadowing the spirit of the battle, nor ever imposing it, Dress Code is more concerned with observing the ritual and offering the senses subtle digressions. Where, to the squeaks of sneakers present from the beginning, answer behind the walls of the theater the chirps of birds next door, the sirens of the city in the distance.
Point Culture | Jean-Jacques Goffinon- 23/06/2021
Like an invisible witness, we discover the practice of a sensitive and demanding art,[...].
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In the abnegation of discipline, the show describes the physical pains, the rigor,
the violence of confrontations, the solidarity of the group and its hermetic rules. Julien Carlier's choreography goes far beyond the simple virtuoso ballet that break-dancers usually provoke.
Mouvement | Belinda Mathieu - 13/07/2021
Carried away by the groove of the music, [the dancers] unleash their infectious energy, their complicity and their love of dance.
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Thanks to his subtle writing, Julien Carlier creates a convincing ballet, in which we enjoy both the choreographer's ability to bring the bodies together in the same frequency, and the virtuosity of each performer.