By Christian Rizzo , 2013
Duration : 1h
Intention note
«2004, Istanbul.
A few minutes before the end of a performance, out of nowhere, a group of men erupt
on stage, break out into a very short folk dance, and then immediately disappear.
I am overtaken by a deep and almost archaic emotion.
Was it their dance, or the void they left after disappearing that overwhelmed me?
Though hazy, this sensation has remained anchored in me ever since.
The starting point for this new project has been this memory, or more exactly, the quest
to find what this memory had left in me.
I feel no interest in recreating a pre-existing dance in its entirety. I would rather understand
why I felt such empathy with this very precise moment and with this form of dance
and why its impact still resonates to this day.
It is therefore more a question of retracing the steps of my memory in order to invent
the basis of an abstract form of writing; one where possible fictional snippets could find
an inherent place in which to lodge themselves.
Accompanied by eight dancers and two musicians, I’ve been looking for a space where
movement and its relationship to music plays with the categories of «popular» and
«contemporary». I imagine a dance that, while taking its cues from memories of folkloric
practices, would find friction with my taste for falling and touch, allowing each and everyone
to stand gracefully in the presence of others, or within his/her immediate contact.
The factual and decontextualized observation of movements and systems of composition,
often common over several different dances (more masculine and Mediterranean),
offers me the ideal terrain to once again question the notions of community.
How is a group formed at a given moment?
Being together, for a form belonging to no determined group or territory, and thinking
up a collegial dance that digs into the ground while simultaneously looking for elevation.
Since the music is an essential part of the project, I entrusted the composition (and live
performance) to drummer-composers Didier Ambact and King Q4. Two drum kits, at
the extreme limits of tribal rhythms and psychedelic rock, will maintain a relationship
between dialogue and «battling» in order to offer a zone of tension to the dance and to
Caty Olive’s atmospheric lighting.»
Christian Rizzo - June, 2013
Casting and mentions
Conception, choreography, stage design, costume design: Christian Rizzo | Dance: Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco, Miguel Garcia Llorens, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço or Smaïn Boucetta, Roberto Martínez | Original music: Didier Ambact and King Q4 | Live music: Didier Ambact and King Q4 | Light design: Caty Olive | Artistic assistant: Sophie Laly | General manager: Jérôme Masson or Victor Fernandes | Sound manager: Vanessa Court or Frédéric Peugeot | Light manager and video: Arnaud Lavisse, Samuel Dosière, Érik Houllier
Production editing: Bureau Cassiopée | Exécutive production: ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerrannée | Coproduction: l’association fragile, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Opéra de Lille, le Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse - Midi-Pyrénées, la Ménagerie de verre - Paris, la Filature, Scène nationale Mulhouse, l’Apostrophe, Scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise, Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape / direction Yuval Pick
With the support of Conseil Régional Nord-Pas-de-Calais, de la convention Institut Français + ville de Lille, de l’association Beaumarchais - SACD et de l’Institut Français dans le cadre du fonds de production Circles
With the help of Phénix, Scène nationale Valenciennes
Residency for the rehearsals: Opéra de Lille, Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape / direction Yuval Pick, Centre chorégraphique national Roubaix Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Thanks to toute l’équipe de l’Opéra de Lille, à l’Opéra de Lyon, au Théâtre du Nord, au Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, au centquatre-Paris, à Marie-Thérèse Allier, Rostan Chentouf, Sophie Laly, Arthur Le Fol, Frédéric Bonnemaison, Catherine Tsékenis et Stéphane Malfettes
Audiodescription
Accessibility to blind and visually impaired viewers / audiodescription conducted by Valérie Castan
Last dates
| 31 July to 3 August 2019 |
Lycée Jacques Decour, Paris (France) |
|---|---|
| 14 to 15 June 2019 |
West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong-Kong (China) |
| 8 February 2019 |
Scène 55, Mougins (France) |
| 21 December 2018 |
Le Merlan, Scène nationale de Marseille (France) |
| 18 December 2018 |
Théâtre + Cinéma Scène nationale Grand Narbonne (France) |
| 6 June 2018 |
Espace Malraux - Scène régionale - Scène de Touraine, Joué les Tours (France) |
| 12 April 2018 |
T2G, Théâtre de Gennevilliers (France) |
| 24 March 2018 |
Les Bords de Scènes, Juvisy-sur-Orge (France) |
| 9 to 13 January 2018 |
Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes (France) |
| 3 to 4 October 2017 |
Gran Teatro National del Perú, Lima (Peru) |
| 13 June 2017 |
Israel Festival, Jerusalem (Israel) |
| 18 May 2017 |
Théâtre Le Manège, Mons (Belgium) |
| 6 April 2017 |
La Faïencerie, Théâtre Creil Chambly (France) |
| 8 March 2017 |
Théâtre du Vellein, Villefontaine (France) |
| 7 February 2017 |
Comédie de Caen - CDN de Normandie (France) |
| 23 November to 2 December 2016 |
Marrakech, Rabat, Meknes, Casablanca (tour in Morocco) |
| 1 October 2016 |
Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen (France) |
| 15 to 18 September 2016 |
REDCAT, Los Angeles (United States) |
| 9 to 10 September 2016 |
PICA, Portland (United States) |
| 26 to 27 May 2016 |
Zorlu PSM Drama Theatre, Istanbul (Turkey) |
| 31 March 2016 |
Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium) |
| 5 to 6 March 2016 |
Taiwan International Festival of arts, National Theater, Taipei (Taiwan) |
| 4 to 5 February 2016 |
Dansens Hus, Stockholm (Sweden) |
| 16 to 17 November 2015 |
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (United Kingdom) |
| 7 to 8 November 2015 |
Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| 15 to 16 October 2015 |
Festival SPAF, Séoul (Korea) |
| 11 to 13 February 2015 |
Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne (Switzerland) |
| 10 January 2015 |
DeSingel, Anvers (Belgium) |
| 31 October to 2 November 2014 |
Mercat de les flores, Barcelone (Spain) |
| 18 to 19 October 2014 |
Festival oktoberdans, Bergen (Norway) |
| 9 to 11 October 2014 |
Kampnagel, Hambourg (Germany) |
| 27 June 2014 |
Biennale de Venise (Italy) |
| 30 to 31 May 2014 |
Festival Transamériques, Montréal (Canada) |
| 9 to 11 April 2014 |
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (France) |
| 7 to 15 July 2013 |
Festival d'Avignon (France) [première] |