Whether you’ve danced professionally, taken a dance class, or frankly worked any job in your life, you can’t help but empathize with the gloriously unglamorous details of the everyday existence of a dancer. In Cédric Andrieux, a touching and humorous examination of the life of a dancer, Cédric himself narrates and dances his way through his training as a contemporary dancer in the city of Brest (France), as a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in New York, and his recent work at the Lyon Opera Ballet.

By isolating moments in his career by performing his former parts, or demonstrating his daily regimen at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Cédric provides a close up on the individual experience of what audiences normally only view as a group endeavor. With excerpts from Trisha Brown's Newark, Merce Cunningham's Biped and Suite for 5, Philippe Tréhet's Nuit Fragile, and Jérôme Bel's The show must go on.

"Bel's work is genuine . . . exciting, smart and great, great fun."
Dance Europe

In short: a dancer's life, behind the scenes, autobiography, costumes that reveal too much, the artist's grind, c'est comme ca.

In 2008, Jérôme Bel thrilled Philadelphia with his highly engaging and slyly hilarious works Pichet Klunchun and myself and The show must go on. Cédric Andrieux is in line with a series of performances Bel initiated in 2004 with Véronique Doisneau, a solo for the dancer of the corps de ballet of the Paris Opéra.

Conception and Direction Jérôme Bel Created by Cédric Andrieux Choreography Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Philippe Tréhet, Jérôme Bel Coaches Jeanne Steele (Merce Cunningham) and Lance Gries (Trisha Brown) Performed by Cédric Andrieux