La Ribot Mathilde Monnier Tiago Rodrigues

Please Please Please

Archive 2019
Espace 1789, scène conventionnée danse – Saint-Ouen
octoberoct 15
Centre Pompidou
octoberoct 17 – 20
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A show by La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier, and Tiago Rodrigues
With Mathilde Monnier, and La Ribot
Translation, Thomas Resendes
Music, Béla Bartók
Lighting, Eric Wurtz
Scenography, Annie Tolleter
Scenography realisation, Christian Frappereau, Mathilde Monier
Costumes, La Ribot, Mathilde Monnier
Costumes, Marion Schmid, Letizia Compitiello
Musical creation and sound, Nicolas Houssin
Technical direction and master electrician, Marie Prédour
Stage manager, Guillaume Defontaine
Diffusion, Julie Le Gall (Bureau Cokot)
Production, Nicolas Roux
Thanks to Magda Bizarro
Executive production by Le Quai, CDN Angers Pays de la Loire
With support from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings programme
Paris region tour produced by the Festival d’Automne à Paris
Coproduced by Teatros del Canal, Madrid ; Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne ; Comédie de Genève ; Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (Lisbonne) ; Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal) ; Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées ; Theaterfestival Boulevard (Bois-le-Duc) ; Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon ; BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen) ; Compagnie MM ; La Ribot-Genève ; Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris for performances at Centre Pompidou
In association with Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris for performances at Espace 1789 (Saint-Ouen)
With support from Adami
In partnership with France Culture
First performed on the 5th September 2019 at Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne

Setting in motion the text and dance in equal measure, La Ribot and her two accomplices make a non-contractual deal guaranteed, or almost, not to keep to any of its promises. This basic premise enables them to look into the body’s inherently unruly nature and to bring it into opposition with the discipline of society’s institutions.

In Please Please Please, her latest creation to date in 2019, La Ribot joins forces once again with the choreographer Mathilde Monnier, with whom she collaborated on Gustavia, and for the first time with the Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues. Together they sign up to a deregulated pact by which the three of them commit to preserving all that is untameable about dance. A sort of counter-proposition to the social contract, the agreement circumvents the norms of dramatic representation in order to allow the onstage bodies to express themselves in whatever way they see fit, including the unwitting participation of the audience in the process. The piece examines the effect that the institution itself, ranging from schools to art centres, can have on the body. It does this by means of a series of figures each characterised by their marginalised nature, presented here as different ways of getting round the expected norms. Please Please Please mutualises, in their own words, the dance of the beautiful with that of the vile in a polymorphous performance which takes the untamed or the savage as the prism for its reading. In the course of this negotiation, the clauses of the show find themselves being constantly redefined. Placed in a position of autonomy, each of them is free to experience their own body, to the extent of ridicule and the ridiculous, uncertainty and dysfunction.
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Estimated running time : 1h15

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