Corps extrêmes
Ages 10 and up
Vertiginous power and beauty of flight: Rachid Ouramdane’s Corps extrêmes is a performance in weightlessness, in which a towering desire for weightlessness vibrates, like a soaring need to give meaning to an existence too often chained down by gravity.
"I fall, but I am not afraid. I turn my fear into a primal scream, a solemn shout." Taking the words of Antonin Artaud, the choreographer Rachid Ouramdane sets the imagination and sensation of flight at the heart of his new creation, this dream that lives within us all. Confronting danger, mastering the self, merging elemental and existential quests – above all, the desire to fly expresses a spirit of resistance against the disillusionments of an entire world. Performed by acrobats, tumblers, a climber and a high-wire artist, Corps extrêmes explores disciplines that defy gravity, stretching them to the limits, where risk-taking rhymes with the highest grace.
+ The Opéra de Dijon offers this show with vibrating vests and reception in LSF
Production Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse
Coproduction CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy Théâtre de la Ville – Paris Festival Montpellier Danse 2021 L’Estive – Scène nationale de Foix et de l’Ariège Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque Le Carreau – Scène nationale de Forbach MC2: Grenoble Théâtre Molière – Sète Scène nationale Archipel de Thau Le Théâtre Scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire Remerciements Patricia Minder, Xavier Mermod, Guillaume Broust, Romain Cocheril
With the technical support of Espace Vertical and Music Plus à Grenoble
With the support of MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Concept Rachid Ouramdane
Music Jean-Baptiste Julien
Video Jean-Camille Goimard
Lighting Stephane Graillot
Costumes Camille Panin
With Joël Azou, Airelle Caen, Antoine Cretinon, Clotaire Fouchereau, Arnau Povedano, Ann Raber Cocheril, Belar San Vincente, Maxime Seghers, Seppe Van Looveren and Leo Ward
General director Sylvain Giraudeau
Choreography assistant Mayalen Otondo
