This piece, written for 8 dancers, was created as part of the Year of France in Brazil in 2009. A singular choreographic style, with the bodies at play in a dance that has its roots in hip hop but breaks away from it to offer a piece that cleverly breaks with the ‘battle’ style by creating lively tableaux à la Édouard Hooper. The result is a show that is ultimately Brazilian, with the languor that grips the bodies – saudade – and makes for a subtle piece full of inventions and visual creations. From tenderly ethereal duets to powerful acrobatic solos and insolently energetic tableaux, the dances telescope into an original choreographic language, in which the gestures are fluid, light and poetic.
Cast
Choreography Bouba Landrille Tchouda / Interpretation Aïda Boudrigua, Vilson Dos Reis Silva, Rodolfo Moraes Espindola, Rafael Nascimento Brito, Amaury Réot, José Antonio Santos Alves, Bouba Landrille Tchouda, Ricardo Venancio De Oliviera Dramaturgy Guy Boley / Scenography Rodrigue Glombard / Light Fabrice Crouzet / Costumes Claude Murgia / Music Manuel Wandji
Coproduction La Rampe – Échirolles / Château Rouge – Annemasse / Le Grand Angle – Voiron / Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble / Brazilian partners Alliance Française de Sao Luis, Secma (Secrétariat à la culture de l’état du Maranhao, Théâtre Arthur Azevedo, Secrio (Secrétariat d’état à la culture de l’état de Rio de Janeiro), Bonfilm Audiovisual Ltd
Photos
Crédits photos: Fabrice Hernandez
Press
‘… The choreographer has subtly blended hip-hop, capoeira and contemporary dance to create a totally original style, and by freeing himself from the constraints of each genre, has succeeded in drawing out the substance of all these influences, served up by lighting and music that play a central role and sublimate the bodies…’ Ericka Hegoburu, Théâtrorama, July 2010
Ericka Hegoburu, Théâtrorama, 15 July 2010
‘… Statues, tableaus and other works of art come to life to tell us their story, our story, the story of our buried dreams. Bodies meet: they speak, fall silent, unite and separate…’.
Prune Vellot, Les Affiches de Grenoble, 13 November 2009