Bewilder. That’s what the choreographer Christian Rizzo wants to do. Dumbfound the audience, as he himself was in Istanbul almost ten years ago. He saw a folkloristic show there. The dancers were stamping their feet on the ground. So simple and yet so intense. The choreographer was overwhelmed by a primal emotion. Anno 2013 he makes a performance based on true facts. Here too : eight men. They stamp, they spin. Most folk dances are simple, repetitive and are performed in a group. They share the same motives and impulses. What happens if you detach that common core from the geographical or cultural context in which it is so typically embedded ? And if you let what is left pulsate between the beats of two drums ? What if these drums build up a rhythm that is a mixture of tribal music, psychedelic rock and dub ? Wow... Surely ? With d’après une histoire vraie Christian Rizzo wants to create an earthly dance that erodes the ground and at the same time takes you to higher spheres. A dance that radically removes labels such as ‘traditional’ or ‘contemporary’.
Rizzo (Cannes, 1965) took a training in the visual arts, subsequently became a fashion designer, a rock musician and eventually a dancer and choreographer. In 1996 he founded L’Association Fragile. The awareness that nothing lasts but that it is always followed by something new is the main idea of his work.
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* Courtrai (30/11) départure 15h30 from Conservatorium (Parcours with Emmanuelle Raynaut, Jérôme Brabant & See You NEXT Time (meal included))
Creation Festival d’Avignon 2013 / CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY, SCENOGRAPHY & COSTUMES Christian Rizzo / PERFORMERS Fabien Almakiewicz, Massimo Fusco, Miguel Garcia Llorens, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenco, Roberto Martínez and Yaïr Barelli / ORIGINAL MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Didier Ambact and King Q4 / LIGHTS Caty Olive / GENERAL DIRECTION Jérôme Masson / SOUND ARRANGEMENT Vanessa Court / LIGHT & VIDEO DIRECTION Arnaud Lavisse / LIGHTDIRECTION Samuel Dosiere / ADMINISTRATION, PRODUCTION diffusion Bureau Cassiopée / ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION l’association fragile / COPRODUCTION Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Opéra de Lille, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse - Midi-Pyrénées, 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 and Institut Français dans le cadre du fonds de production circles / WITH HELP OF le phénix scène nationale de Valenciennes / CREATION RESIDENCES Opéra de Lille, Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape / direction Yuval Pick, Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais / THANKS TO staff of the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra de Lyon, au Théâtre du Nord, au Fresnoy - studio national des arts contemporains, à Marie-Thérèse Allier, Rostan Chentouf, Sophie Laly, Frédéric Bonnemaison, Catherine Tsékenis et Stéphane Malfettes /ASSOCIATION FRAGILE IS FUNDED BY Ministère de la culture et de la communication / DRAC Nord-Pas de Calais for help at the company chorégraphique conventionnée with the support of Conseil Régional Nord-Pas de calais, de la Ville de Lille and the Institut Français for his international tour.
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