Myriam Gourfink
Rêche
septembersept 25 – 28
© Matthieu Bajolet ©
Wednesday september 25
20h00
Thursday september 26
20h00
Friday september 27
20h00
Saturday september 28
20h00
Choreographic composition Myriam Gourfink. Musical creation and electric bass Kasper T. Toeplitz. Percussion Didier Casamitjana. Performers Esteban Appesseche, Suzanne Henry, Noémie Langevin, Deborah Lary, Matthieu Patarozzi, Annabelle Rosenow, Véronique Weil. Costume Catherine Garnier. Lighting design Sophie Lepoutre. Stage management Zakariyya Cammoun. Administration Matthieu Bajolet. Production Mina de Suremain. Communication Cédric Chaory.
Delegated production LOLDANSE
Coproduction Théâtre du Beauvaisis – scène nationale ; Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique national ; Art Zoyd Studios – Centre de Création Musicale ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of the CN D Centre national de la danse, of the Ménagerie de Verre and of La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne for the availability of studios
With the help of the Spedidam and the Adami
LOLDANSE is subsidised by the French Ministry of Culture, Drac Île-de-France
LOLDANSE is also supported by the Région Île-de-France
Myriam Gourfink is an associate artist of the Théâtre du Beauvaisis - scène nationale
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
The Atelier de Paris – Centre de développement chorégraphique national and the Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this show and present it as a co-realisation.
With the support of
Fill your lungs. Feel the volumes of air inflating inside you in opposite directions. In Rêche, to be presented at the Pantheon, seven dancers enable us to see what is at stake in our bodies when we breathe. For choreographer Myriam Gourfink, this vital movement absorbs our fears and transforms the harshest behaviour into a gentler one.
Myriam Gourfink, a seasoned yoga and fasciatherapy practitioner for over 30 years, and keen observer of what happens inside the body, makes various microphenomena visible by transposing them to the scale of a group. In Rêche, seven performers take up the Pantheon space. Stuck together in thick clumps, they detach themselves imperceptibly, slide, and expand in order to reveal air, volumes and swellings. Following on from the choreographer's previous experiments with the respiratory journey of cells, in this new creation she turns her attention to the rhythm of our in-breaths. Similar to the two chambers of a forge bellows, when our lungs inflate they also dilate contrary masses. The choreographer remains wholly convinced that this movement in two directions has the power to change the rough into the soft, our fears into appeasement, and our anger into tenderness. Backed up by two musicians each in their own playing space, the entire piece invites us to tame what is rough in each of us.