Biographie
Christian Rizzod'après une histoire vraie
Christian Rizzo
Creation 2013, restaging autumn 2024, piece for 8 dancers and 2 drummers
Outdoor version available
Duration: 1h
Premiere — 7th to 15th July, 2013, Avignon Festival (France)
Date(s) à venir
Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy (France)
Domaine de Bayssan, Béziers
Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, in partnership with Escales Danse
Théâtre de Corbeil-Essonnes, Corbeil-Essonnes
L’Avant-Scène, Théâtre de Colombes, in partnership with Escales Danse
Théâtre de Bressuire, Scène de Territoire, Bressuire
Odyssée, Scène conventionnée de Périgueux, Périgueux
Auditorium, Opéra de Dijon, in partnership with Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and the Opéra de Dijon, as part of festival Art Danse 2025
Eight dancers and two drummers. Ten men, gripped in the vice of “masculinity”. Some ten years ago, d’après une histoire vraie (based on a true story) opened the gate to irresistible fluidity of polarity, breaking down angsts one by one through the grace and passion of movement. The performers are invited here to redeploy choreographic creation, wherein the divisions between tradition and modernity are delicately resolved. A pivotal piece, if ever there was one. Bringing the memory of emotion to an incandescent culmination, stretching materials to breaking point. In the friction between telluric rhythms and undulating bodies, dance explores its own physicality. Keeping apace with the music, it spans from tribal ritual to geometric form, fiction to abstraction, group to community. But it is always through the underground solidarity of movement, whereby one holds together thanks to the presence of others, that landless folklore emerges. Falling in response to constantly renewed contact, spinning to the reassurance of an outstretched hand, grasped wholeheartedly. Singularities are observed, then unite and break away, before reuniting once more. Togetherness? The question is blazingly urgent here.
© Text Noëmie Charrié
Distribution et mentions
IN 2024
Conception, choreography, stage design, costume design: Christian Rizzo
| Dance: Youness Aboulakoul, Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco in alternation with Nicolas Fayol, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço, Roberto Martínez | At creation: Miguel Garcia Llorens
| Original music: Didier Ambact & King Q4 | Light design: Caty Olive | Sound arrangement: Vanessa Court | Artistic assistant: Sophie Laly | General manager: Jérôme Masson | Light manager: Romain Portolan | Sound manager: Delphine Foussat | Production and touring director: Anne Fontanesi | Production and touring administrator: Anne Bautz
Production: ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée / Direction Christian Rizzo
With the support of: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Coproduction: Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS
Thanks to: La Bulle Bleue E.S.A.T Artistique, Montpellier
IN 2013
Dance: Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco, Miguel Garcia Llorens, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço ou Smaïn Boucetta, Roberto Martínez | Original music: Didier Ambact & King Q4 | Live music: Didier Ambact & King Q4 | Light design: Caty Olive | Artistic assistant: Sophie Laly | General manager: Jérôme Masson or Victor Fernandes | Sound manager: Vanessa Court ou Frédéric Peugeot | Light manager and video: Arnaud Lavisse, Samuel Dosière, Érik Houllier
Production editing: Bureau Cassiopée | Exécutive production: ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo | 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 the whole team of Opéra de Lille, to Opéra de Lyon, to Théâtre du Nord, to Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, to centquatre-Paris, to Marie-Thérèse Allier, Rostan Chentouf, Sophie Laly, Arthur Le Fol, Frédéric Bonnemaison, Catherine Tsékenis and Stéphane Malfettes
Photographs ©Marc Domage
Audiodescription
Accessibility to blind and visually impaired viewers.
Audio description by : Valérie Castan for ICI-CCN Montpellier | Proofreading: Reynalde Nicolin
Date(s) passée(s)
Institut français de Pékin
— projection as part of the "Danse en images" festival and the CN D montage "La danse traditionnelle contemporaine"
Projection of d'après une histoire vraie
— as part of the festival Danse en Images – Institut Français de Pékin – Chine
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Gallery de Damei Art Centre (China)
— as part of Danse en images – Festival de films de danse
— This program is a partner of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
and is supported by the Institut français (Paris).
Corum, Montpellier— as part of the Festival Montpellier Danse 2020
Lycée Jacques Decour, Paris
— as part of the Festival Paris l'été
West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong-Kong (Chine)
— as part of Le French May Arts Festival
Scène 55, Mougins
Espace Malraux - Scène régionale - Scène de Touraine, Joué les Tours
— in co-production with the CCN de Tours
T2G Théâtre de Gennevilliers
— with the Conservatoire Edgar-Varèse de Gennevilliers
Les Bords de Scènes, Juvisy-sur-Orge
Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes
Gran Teatro National del Perú, Lima (Peru)
Israel Festival, Jérusalem (Israël)
— with the support of the Institut Français
Théâtre Le Manège, Mons (Belgium)
— as part of Tout Mons danse
Théâtre du Vellein, Villefontaine
Comédie de Caen – CDN de Normandie
— in partnership with the Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
— as part of the Festival Écritures partagées
Marrakech, Rabat, Meknès, Casablanca (tournée au Maroc)
— with the support of the Institut Français du Maroc
Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen
REDCAT, Los Angeles (United States)
— with the support of the Institut Français and FUSED: French-US Exchange in Dance,
a program of the New England Foundation for the Art's National Dance Project,
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, et FACE Foundation
PICA, Portland (États-Unis)
— with the support of the Institut Français et de FUSED: French-US Exchange in Dance,
a program of the New England Foundation for the Art's National Dance Project,
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, et FACE Foundation
Zorlu PSM Drama Theatre, Istanbul (Turkey)
— as part of the Istanbul Theatre Festival
Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
Taiwan International Festival of arts, National Theater, Taipei (Taïwan)
— with the support of the Institut Français
Dansens Hus, Stockholm (Sweden)
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (United Kingdom)
Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Festival SPAF, Seoul (South Korea)
— with the support of the Institut Français
Théâtre Vidy, Lausanne (Switzerland)
DeSingel, Anvers (Belgium)
Mercat de les flores, Barcelona (Spain)
Festival oktoberdans, Bergen (Norway)
Kampnagel, Hambourg (Germany)
Biennale de Venise (Italia)
Festival Transamériques, Montréal (Canada)
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
Festival d'Avignon [première]