d'après une histoire vraie

Created in 2013 at the Avignon Festival

Revival in fall 2024

Piece for 8 dancers and 2 drummers

Outdoor version available

 

 

Eight dancers, two drummers. Ten men, then, to lay down the shackles of “masculinity.” Nearly fifteen years ago, d’après une histoire vraie paved the way for an irresistible fluidity of polarities, breaking down antagonisms one by one through the grace, if not the ardor, of its movements. Today, it invites its performers to redeploy a choreography in which the divisions between tradition and modernity are delicately unraveled. A pivotal piece, if ever there was one, it brings the memory of an emotion to its incandescent point, stretching its material to the point of explosion. In the friction between telluric rhythms and undulating bodies, dance invents its own plasticity. Side by side with the music, it runs along an arc that stretches from tribal ritual to geometric form, from fiction to abstraction, from group to community. But it is still in the underground solidarity of the gestures, with each person holding on thanks to the presence of the other, that a folklore without territory can emerge. Falls are answered by constantly renewed contact, twirls by the assurance of an outstretched hand, grasped in all its fullness. Singularities are observed, come together, and detach themselves only to reunite again. How can we be together? Here, the question takes on its full significance.

 

Time 1h

 

Concept, choreography, set design, and costumes Christian Rizzo

Performers Youness Aboulakoul, Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco alternating with Nicolas Fayol, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço, Roberto Martínez | Original cast: Miguel Garcia Llorens

Original music and live performance Didier Ambact & King Q4

Lighting design Caty Olive

Sound arrangements Vanessa Court

Artistic assistant Sophie Laly

Stage manager Jérôme Masson / Victor Fernandes

Lighting technician Romain Portolan

Sound technician Delphine Foussat

Administration, Production Les Indépendances, Hélène Moulin-Rouxel and Colin Pitrat

 

Special thanks to Fabrik Cassiopée, Léonor Baudouin and ICI CCN, Anne Bautz and Anne Fontanesi

 

Didier Ambact plays on Williams Drumheads

 

Production l’association fragile

With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Co-production ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier – Occitanie / Pyrénées- Méditerranée, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy, LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Festival d’Avignon, Opéra de Lille, le Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse – Midi-Pyrénées, la 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 the CN D Centre national de la danse, residency and La Bulle Bleue E.S.A.T Artistique, Montpellier

 

l’association fragile is supported by the Direction générale de la création artistique, Ministère de la Culture.

Christian Rizzo is an associate artist at the CN D in 2025 and 2026.

 

Administration, production, and distribution: Colin Pitrat and Hélène Moulin

©Marc Domage