KLIMAX is one of Joséphine first choreographic experience, created during her bachelor studies at Laban School in London. In this 15 minutes creation for 3 dancers and

 1 musician, the piece was initially inspired by a study on bonobos. Bonobos are unusual among mammals in that they habitually use sexual contacts for purely social purposes, beyond their pure biological function. 

The scenario of KLIMAX begins with a reserved table in a luxury restaurant, a waiter waiting for a late couple, a pianist playing Chopin, the couple arrives, gets seated by the waiter. Everything is staged so that the building up of the flirt goes exactly like expected. But instead of leaving the restaurant (here the stage) to conclude sexually, the couple starts having more and more loud and wild sex on the table, with overacted theatrical postures. The choreography doesn't allow the performers to get into physical touch at any moment, which creates a big contradiction. Shaking and shouting one meter away from each other, they end up climaxing simultaneously in silence facing each other, while the music continues playing. Finally, they casually leave the restaurant / stage.  KLIMAX questions sex and this mysterious peak of intensity from an humorous and ironic point of vue by playing with expectations and representations of  heterosexual sex.

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CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY: JOSÉPHINE AUFFRAY

Performance: TOMMY CATTIN, SARA MAURIZI & renato D’Oliviera

LIVE MUSIC: Kyle Nash-Baker

MENTORING: CLAIRE BAKER