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COLLAPSE
Julien Carlier / Cie Abis
DANCE
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50'
At a time when our reference points are collapsing, serious alarms are being ringed about our future, what about the resilience of bodies? If we observe and experiment like children, the slow construction of a form, followed by its rapid collapse like a Kapla castle, what kind of states, images, emotions and reactions would we experience?
Choreograph and artistic direction Julien Carlier Musical creation and artistic collaboration Simon Carlier Dance - creation and interpretation Jules Rozenwajn, Daniel Barkan, Benoit Nieto Duran, Dunya Narli, Joël Brown, Lory Laurac Musician - drum live Tom Malmendier Light design Arié Van Egmond Set design Boris Dambly Costumes Alexandra Sebbag Dramaturgy Fanny Brouyaux Production Xavier Melis Development and distribution BLOOM Project
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Production Cie Abis Coproduction Charleroi-Danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, le Théâtre Les Tanneurs, le CDCN Pôle Sud de Strasbourg et le CCN Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la Danse, Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI) and SACD
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Julien Carlier is resident choreographer at Charleroi-Danse, and is supported by la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and le Grand Studio.
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This show was created in October 2021 at Charleroi danse, during the Bienniale.
At a time when our reference points are collapsing, serious alarms are being ringed about our future, what about the resilience of bodies? If we observe and experiment like children, the slow construction of a form, followed by its rapid collapse like a Kapla castle, what kind of states, images, emotions and reactions would we experience?
With COLLAPSE, Julien Carlier, resident artist of Charleroi Danse, goes in search of our points of balance and fall, interested as always in an exploration of the limits, a questioning of our sensitivity and our gravity. Here, the dancers become object-bodies, manipulable and manipulators, within a set design conceived as a playground, offering freedom and constraint. In search of ascension, standing or collapsing, stable or unstable, whatever our position, whatever our intention, "we are all - as the choreographer notes - constantly busy dancing to maintain our balance" - Fabienne Aucant / Charleroi danse