Witch Hunting


Production for 6 dancers
Premieres on October 10 & 11, 2025 at Opéra de Massy (91, near Paris)
Duration: 55 min – All audiences



Witch Hunting stages six dancers of different dance styles – krump, popping and African urban and traditional dances – to explore the notion of cultural identity and universalist principles. In a system where the dynamics of scapegoating play, in a cyclical manner, to the profit or detriment of each, Witch Hunting invites the public to examine the notion of common good and the concept of nation.

Witch Hunting explores the human being’s desire for empire and its capacity for empathy. On the bare stage, six dancers, women and men embodying different prisms, use the virtuosity of their dance to define their zone of influence and to communicate their visions of the world and of the body. With krump, popping and African urban and traditional dances, the dance draws bridges between tradition and modernity and pays tribute to the African and American components inherited by the bodies. Individuals find fractions of common vocabulary and converge physically, alternating between confrontation, complementarity and harmony.

The original music for Witch Hunting, composed by Pierre Demange, Grégoire Letouvet and Tony Ndoumba aka “Tony No Script” using percussion, prepared piano and krump sounds, explores rhythms and melodies that embody community spirit, in the style of a modern epic.

BOOKINGS: AVAILABLE FROM AUTUMN 2025 AND THROUGHOUT THE 2025/2026 SEASON, AS WELL AS FOR THE NEXT SEASONS.

CAST

Choreography: Anne Nguyen
Performers: Lisa Boudard aka “Lady Noscript”, Arnaud Duprat aka “AAron EVO”, Dominique Elenga aka “Mademoiselle Do’”, Joseph Nama aka “Jo Kiero”, Tony Ndoumba aka “Tony No Script”, Emilie Ouedraogo aka “Kween Madskillz”
Original soundtrack: Pierre Demange, Grégoire Letouvet & Tony Ndoumba aka “Tony No Script”
Costumes: Simon Huet, Marine Arnoul
Lighting design: Pascal Aurouet, Bruno Azevedo, Cynthia Lhopitallier

WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger WIT_Patrick_Berger

PARTNERS

Production: par Terre / Anne Nguyen Dance Company
Coproductions: La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle; Opéra de Massy; Le Théâtre de Rungi ; Théâtre des Bergeries – Noisy-le-Sec; Conseil Départemental de la Seine-Saint-Denis; Théâtre des 2 Rives de Charenton-le-Pont.
Action financed by la Région Île-de-France.
With the support of: Théâtre Molière -> Sète scène nationale archipel de Thau ; Centre d’Art et de Culture de Meudon ; Houdremont, Centre culturel La Courneuve ; CENTQUATRE-PARIS ; micadanses-Paris ; Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains – Scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériques d’Enghien-les-Bains ; Opéra de Limoges ; SPEDIDAM.


La SPEDIDAM est un organisme de gestion collective qui œuvre afin de garantir aux artistes-interprètes de toutes catégories les droits qui leur ont été reconnus.

The par Dance Company is funded by l’Aide pluriannuelle du ministère de la Culture / DRAC Île-de-France, la Région Île-de-France for “Permanence Artistique et Culturelle” and l’Aide au fonctionnement du Département du Val-de-Marne.
In 2025/2026, the par Terre / Anne Nguyen Dance Company is an associate artist to La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux • La Rochelle, as part of the associate artist-in-residence program by the ministry of Culture, to Théâtre des 2 Rives de Charenton-le-Pont, to Théâtre Molière -> Sète scène nationale de l’archipel de Thau and to Théâtre des Bergeries – Noisy-le-Sec.
In 2025/2026, the par Terre / Anne Nguyen Dance Company is in residency at l’Opéra de Massy.