Boris Charmatz, a star of contemporary avantgarde dance, challenges the notion of multiplicity by raising a relatively simple question: is it possible to have physical movement without the use of muscles? Building on his previous research on machines, this new instalment in Chatmatz’s body of work is a choreography of surrendered bodies, employing a controversial material: children; a fragile, malleable yet also uncontrollable material. Adult dancers, to the sounds of a bagpipe musician, carry the children around and place them on the ground, in the process generating a landscape of metamorphosis. Movement is prominent throughout the piece, both in its human and its mechanical form. A huge crane moves the adult dancers around; in turn, they move the children.
Choreography: Boris Charmatz
Performers: Ashley Chen, Olga Dukhovnaya, Nuno Bizarro, Matthieu Burner, Julien Gallée-Ferré, Peggy Grelat-Dupont, Maud Le Pladec, Thierry Micouin, Solène Wachter, and a a group of children from Berlin
Bagpipe: Erwan Keravec
Lighting design: Yves Godin
Sound: Olivier Renouf
Machines: Artefact, Frédéric Vannieuwenhuyse, Alexandre Diaz
Assistants: Johanna Lemke, Frank Willens
General stage manager: Fabrice Le Fur
Stage managers: Max Potiron, François Aubry
Costumes: Laure Fonvieille
Dresser: Stefani Gicquiaud
Voice work: Dalila Khatir
Orchestration software: Luccio Stiz
Associate producers 2018: Musée de la danse, Volksbühne Berlin
Production 2011: Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne – Directed by Boris Charmatz, is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication - the Direction régionale des Affaires Culturelles, the city of Rennes, the regional Council of Brittany and the General Council of Ille-et-Vilaine.
Coproduction: Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg and Siemens Stiftung in the frame of the project SCHAUPLÄTZE, Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles).
With the exceptional support of ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le Conseil régional de Bretagne, la Ville de Rennes and Rennes Métropole
This project receives the support of the Institut français / Ville de Rennes for the international tour
In collaboration with la Ligue de l’enseignement d’Ille-et-Vilaine
Thanks to Or Avishay, Eleanor Bauer, Julia Cima, Raimund Hoghe, Julien Jeanne, Lénio Kaklea, Pierre Mathiaut, Mani Mungai
