Thibault Lac

Blue Roses

One person is standing in the middle of the pictures, looking very elegant. This person is wearing purple, sparkling clothes.

Photo: Julie Folly

Mo 16.6.2025, 20:00-20:50, MDT - Stage

In Blue Roses, Thibault Lac embarks on a camp-infused, corporeal reverie—an exploration of queer imaginaries shaped through performance, fantasy, and embodied myth-making. 


Within a swamp-like landscape that is timeless, fluid, and unstable, Blue Roses becomes a bouquet of hybrid fantasies—composed, decomposed, and recomposed—where grotesque meets melancholy, spectacle meets intimacy, and the politics of body, taste, and gaze unfold in the slippery terrain between repulsion and seduction.


Lac oscillates between the “here and now” of performance and the “then and there” of fiction. Embracing contradiction and theatrical excess, Lac channels archetypes both dusty and divine – from gogo dancers, burlesque striptease, and the ghosts of romantic ballet

Thibault Lac

Thibault Lac (b. 1987, Bordeaux) is a performer and choreographer based in Paris. He studied architecture before his contemporary dance training at P.A.R.T.S in Bruxelles, where he started working with Jérome Bel et Tino Sehgal. He is a recurring presence throughout the work of American choreographer Trajal Harell and has performed with Ligia Lewis, Noé Soulier, Daniel Linehan, Mathilde Monnier, Alexandra Bachzetsis and Price among others. Since 2022, his interest in burlesque forms of performance has led him to create several acts for the traveling Cabaret Les Moches. He also performed as the gogo-boy in “Untitled” (Go-go dancing platform) by Félix Gonzalez-Torres during his retrospective at the Bourse de Commerce (Paris).

Lac also authors choreographic projects in collaboration with artists from various discipline : Blue Roses (2024), If Then Castle (2023), Fool’s Gold (2021, co-authored with composer Tobias Koch) and Such Sweet Thunder (2019, co-authored with composer Tobias Koch and visual artist Tore Wallert, awarded Young Choreographers Prize at Festival Impulstanz). As part of the “Artiste accompagné” program of CN D - centre national de la danse in Pantin from 2021 to 2023, he developed the performance Knight-Night with Bryana Fritz (2022). Pursuing their joint research, Lac and Fritz are currently working on a new creation.

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Concept, Performance

Lighting Design

Alice Panziera

Textiles, Textures

Lotte de Jager

Music contributions

Alban Schelbert

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Technical direction / lights operated by

Héloïse Evano

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François Boulet

Outside Eye

Lisa Laurent

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Mickey Mahar

Development, coordination

Clémentine Dubost

Thanks to

Camille Leprince

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James Bidgood

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Mariah Carey

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Ophelia

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Antonia Castro

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Natalie Portman

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Biblis

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Aude Martino

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Taos Bertrand

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Perle Palombe

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François Ségallou

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Philippe Quesne

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Vivarium

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Ottolinger

A production by

Rocinante in co-production with Belluard Bollwerk

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Ménagerie de verre

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CND Centre national de la danse – Pantin

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