Presentation
An unusual encounter.
In a closed environment, a psychiatric hospital, where all sociability is modified, Renaud Dallet met a woman he never knew anything about. What remained was the intense memory of a bond of a different kind. His first creation bears the indelible mark of this. How do you tell the story of this impulse, far removed from social conventions? The choreographer succeeds in doing so, thanks to an inhabited, sensitive and repetitive gestural style in a duet with dancer Odile Azagury. Set on a landscape carpet, enveloped by the music of Ange Halliwell, they are this young man and this middle-aged woman, grappling with a singular relationship that needs no words.
Cast
Production / carnet zéro
Coproduction TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, Espace Pluriels – Scène conventionnée danse de Pau, OARA – Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The creation project is supported by Fonds Régnier pour la Création ; la Ville de La Rochelle ; OARA – Office Artistique de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; le TAP – Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers ; Espace Pluriels – Scène conventionnée danse de Pau ; Mille Plateaux – Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle ; la Ménagerie de Verre as part of StudioLab ; la Villa Noailles – Centre d’art contemporain d’intérêt national through a long-term research residency ; KLAP Marseille – Maison pour la danse.
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Renaud Dallet’s work is based on his own personal and intimate experiences. His first piece, Voir, toucher, s’aimer fort, is presented as a “choreographic essay” born of unusual social encounters – during several months spent in a psychiatric hospital, observing other ways of perceiving and coexisting. A reflection exploring, in duet, the significance of gesture in the relationship with the other, with the unknown: inconsiderate gestures, precarious and damaged or, on the contrary, infallible, gestures of tenderness or mistrust, perhaps betraying a new possibility of meeting the other. These extremely sensitive experiences could well be the premises of new ways of living together. Voir, toucher, s’aimer fort is an invitation to reconsider not only the other, but also the environment that surrounds us.
” My creative process is based on the principles of improvisation, enabling us to keep our dance fresh and lively, while at the same time nourishing the vocabulary of gestures we have created”. Renaud Dallet