Boris Charmatz
infini
© infini © Marc Domage ©
© infini © Marc Domage ©
© infini © Marc Domage ©
infini :
Choreography, Boris Charmatz
With Régis Badel, Boris Charmatz, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Maud Le Pladec, Tatiana Julien (alternately), Fabrice Mazliah, and Solène Wachter
Vocal work, Dalila Khatir
Sound, Olivier Renouf
Lighting, Yves Godin
Costumes, Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Produced by Terrain (Hauts-de-France)
With support from the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme
Coproduced by Musée de la danse – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne ; Charleroi danse – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie (Brussels) ; Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London) ; Athens & Epidaurus Festival ; PACT Zollverein (Essen) ; Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) ; Montpellier Danse ; Bonlieu scène nationale Annecy ; International Summer Festival Kampnagel Hamburg ; Zürcher Theater Spektakel ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris for performances at Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
In association with Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris for performances at Nanterre-Amandiers, centre dramatique national
First performed on the 4th July 2019 at a preview during Montpellier Danse 2019, and the 11th July 2019, as part of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival
Levée :
Transmission, Thierry Micouin
For the choreographer, dance is a means of testing the limits of the theatrical framework by confronting it with the proliferation of actions, movement and voice. With infini, Boris Charmatz gives shape to this obsession of going beyond limits via an exploration of the act of counting and its variations at its most basic, pared-down level, opening up a vast and unexplored choreographic territory.
After his preceding work 10000 gestes, Boris Charmatz continues to dig deeper and deeper into the organic and conflictual relationship between the finite nature of the body and the multiplication of numbers, or between physics and algebra. This time around, however, he uses infinity as the starting point for his investigations. Both philosophical and mathematical object, pure abstraction and pillar of reality, infinity is by its very nature a proliferating concept, the essence of which is too much for us to grasp. In order to give shape to this “turbulent infinity”, Boris Charmatz sets down an experimental framework which enables him, to particle accelerator-like effect, to come closer to its edges, centre and periphery. Navigating a path between mathematical purity and the symbolic value attached to numbers – dates, signs, rhythms or ritornello – the performers dance and count at the same time : they count on the spot, backwards, towards the infinitely small and the infinitely large, alone or in unison, keeping the beat or standing in the face of time. Like a malleable matter of some sort, infinity is embodied, said, shouted out or hummed, giving rise to a molecular form of dance – a broken-up, constantly mutating jigsaw puzzle which diffracts, disperses and condenses.
In parallel with this new work, Nanterre-Amandiers presents Levée – the result of a workshop led by Boris Charmatz’s team with pupils from the Hauts-de-Seine conservatories. Drawing upon material from the Levée des conflits piece, these young dancers bring us a vast, choir-like corpus of gestures.
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Running time infini : 1h
Running time Levée : 20 min.
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