Je badine avec l’amour (Parce que tous les hommes sont si imparfaits et si affreux)

88 Avenue Charles de Gaulle

Armed with his devastating humor and contagious tenderness, Sylvain Riéjou calls upon his dearest ghosts – Patrick Swayze, ballet duos, love songs in Hollywood sauce – to strip them with jubilation. Surrounded by three accomplices, he weaves autofiction and the history of dance, from Swan Lake to Cunningham, via the heroic songs of Daniel Larrieu, in a whirlwind of pop and scholarly references that leaves no moment dull. Funny and terribly smart, Je badine avec l’amour asks a simple and vertiginous question: how to de…