Springtime Marmalade

Springtime Marmalade reimagines Botticelli’s masterpiece in a jubilant collision of Renaissance poetry and raw punk energy. On stage, elegance rubs shoulders with rebellion, delicacy flirts with the absurd, and humour appears where you least expect it.

This show doesn’t just revisit “Primavera”. It transgresses, disrupts, and reinvents it. Here, bodies explode, emotions overflow, and each character reveals his or her flaws, impulses and contradictions. It’s a dazzling mix in which recurring symbols, like oranges, remind us of our capacity to let go of our peels, to reveal what bubbles up inside us, and to welcome the unexpected part of the other. They become a sign of everything that mixes and invents itself through contact with others.

Springtime Marmalade invites us not to remain mere spectators, but to let ourselves be surprised, to question, to plunge into this boiling marmalade. Here, each one of us moves forward, unvarnished, and the encounter takes place in what overflows, escapes and surprises.

Springtime Marmalade is an embodied reflection on identity, the quest for meaning, social cohesion, and a joyful yet desperate revolt. An invitation to explore the complexity of human relationships, to let anger and joy coexist, and to celebrate vulnerability as strength.

Here, hybridity reigns: classical and punk, sweetness and bite, introspection and exuberance. The show becomes a physical manifesto for “being together”, a cry for freedom in which everyone embraces their place, their questions, their intimate echoes. In short: an experience to be lived, felt and questioned – without sinking into cliché or easiness. Springtime Marmalade: three impulses – that of the heart, that of the body and that of exuberance – to compose, together, an ode to life that makes no apologies for being (sometimes)irreverent.

SURSAUT DANCE COMPANY is dedicated to the creation, production and presentation of contemporary dance performances. Philosophical, dynamic and joyful, with a touch of absurdity, the company’s choreographic works bear witness to the maturity of an evolving artistic approach which, for over thirty years, has focused on young audiences and families.