“Dance is not so much a matter of appearance. What truly matters is the feeling, the energy that flows through and around it. Space, with its presence, has the power to transform emotion, becoming one with the dance. May the Palais de Tokyo – its vibrating walls and its aura – absorb our creations and merge with them.” Sharon Eyal

After two initial sessions of rehearsals and public showings earlier this year, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar will return in November to the Palais de Tokyo with a special project inspired by Into the Hairy. Conceived by the company in collaboration with dancers from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse, this creation engages directly with the museum’s architecture – its raw concrete, open staircases, and secret interstices – where movement seeps into the very pores of the building.

Into the Hairy, created for eight dancers in collaboration with London-based electronic musician and producer Koreless, pushes the boundaries of contemporary dance by opening a dialogue between classical technique and club culture. A trance-like vision unfolds: a sensual, collective breath rising on demi-pointe, expanding stillness.

Premiered at the Montpellier Danse Festival (June 2023), the piece has since been performed worldwide on stages and at international festivals. This new edition is realised in collaboration with Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.

Since founding their company in 2013, Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar have been internationally recognized for their creations that endlessly stretch the boundaries of dance, performance and music. Their work conjures a spell where emotion, rhythm, and form dissolve into one another — a hypnotic blend of muscular precision and dreamlike grace. Drawing from the raw pulse of underground club culture, they forge an art that fuses classical rigor with the ecstasy of collective movement — proposing new ways of feeling, of dreaming, of being together.

Each work unfolds as a living tableau, a choreography merging light, space, costume, and sound where every element breathes as part of a shared organism. This invitation, Symbiosis, springs from that same desire for unity. Borrowed from the language of biology, it traces the delicate relationships between beings: from mutualism (where all thrive), through commensalism (where one benefits without harm), to parasitism, where tension sparks transformation. Each work unfolds as a living tableau, a choreography merging light, space, costume, and sound where every element breathes as part of a shared organism.

The performances will be divided into two parts:

• The first part will begin with a walk through the Palais de Tokyo.
• The second part will take place on level 0. A dedicated ticket for the performance will be required to access this area.