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Alain Platel founded Les Ballets C. de B. in 1984. A dynamic dance and theatre collective, the company is renowned for its powerful theatrical dance performances. Returning to London after its sell-out debut in February, 'Rien de Rien' plays with cliches and prejudices, with text and context, with true and false. Who may say what? Who may do what? Every movement becomes sacred or sacriligious an inescapable environment where banal movements and stories suddenly evolve into unintentional dance. Absurd situations turn out to be painfully real. Everyone fights against interpretation without ever knowing what others make of it. Regret for what you have not become? Desire to be someone else? The difference shows itself most clearly in perfect unison. What remains is every person's unique path. Virtuoso cellist Roel Dieltiens, a 58 year old ex-prima ballerina, a funky 15 year old girl, a Canadian/Jamaican story-teller, a Slovenian Christ-figure, a fiery schizophrenic, all of them visitors to a mosque. A place to pray to come to oneself or rather to deceive yourself? What do you want to be? What are you allowed to be? By whom? Why? A story, a memory, an image. Non, je ne regrette rien. Les Ballet C de la B - Rien de Rien website.