in the shade of a vast detail, out of storm.

Biographie

Christian Rizzo

Christian Rizzo
Creation 2025 for 9 performers

. Premiere: From 16th to 17th September 2025, shows as part of the Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2025, Lyon
. Between 6th and 9th November 2025 — MC93 with CN D Pantin and Festival d’Automne Paris

A sudden detail unfolds amidst unnoticed mundane gestures and habits. Perhaps the simplest everyday details are the very space or place which connect to the invisible?

Start by conjuring up a very simple, very ordinary image: a scene from everyday life, someone cleaning down a surface, perhaps. The person is totally engrossed in their chore. Movement is suspended, concentrated, applied. Like a choreographic work in which action is self-sufficient. Like the quivering of fiction on the run. In the wake of previous works, Christian Rizzo opens the stage to the powers of abstraction, while maintaining the theatrical spectrum. Here, the reality of dance is revealed through the beat and interstice of the two dimensions. Veiling and unveiling, staging and permanent reframing, lends mobility to the space, making it a character in its own right. Alongside deeply organic dance steps, situations appear and disappear with the trajectories of three curtains. A group of dancers forms, divides and recomposes under the watchful eye of a labile structure. Repetition escapes multiplication: hidden somewhere within absences and gaps, a peaceful place emerges. Detail, delight, and a search for solitude and serenity.

Distribution et mentions

Choreography, scenography, costumes: Christian Rizzo | Dance: Enzo Blond, Fanny Didelot, Hans Peter Diop Ibaghino, Nathan Freyermuth, Paul Girard, Hanna Hedman, Anna Vanneau | Light design: Caty Olive | Original music: Pénélope Michel and Nicolas Devos (Cercueil / Puce Moment) | Text: Célia Houdart | Stage management: Jérôme Masson / Victor Fernandes | Sound engineer: Delphine Foussat | Lighting engineer: Clément Huard / Romain Portolan | Administration, production: Les Indépendances, Hélène Moulin-Rouxel et Colin Pitrat
Acknowledgements: ICI—CCN, Anne Bautz et Anne Fontanesi

Production: l’association fragile
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Coproduction: ICI—Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier Occitanie, Bonlieu, Scène nationale Annecy, Centre National de la Danse (CN D), La Biennale de Lyo, Tandem Scène Nationale Douai-Arras, Théâtre de Nîmes - Scène Conventionnée d'Intérêt National Art et Création Danse Contemporaine, CCN • Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin in the framework of Accueil Studio 2025, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie
Espaces Pluriels - scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création – danse à Pau, Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers (TAP), Festival d’Automne à Paris, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie
In residence: Cndc – Angers

l’association fragile is supported by Direction générale de la création artistique, Ministère de la Culture

Christian Rizzo is associate artist at CN D in 2025 and 2026