D'après une histoire vraie

Driven by pulsating and percussive music, D’après une histoire vraie reveals the physical and mental states of a group of male dancers: a show between solidarity and vulnerability, strength and tenderness.

D’après une histoire vraie takes inspiration from the memory of an improvised performance by a group of male dancers that Christian Rizzo saw in Istanbul. In revisiting this memory, by adding the rhythms and sonic atmosphere produced by two sets of persistent drums, the artist reinvents it and turns it into a reworked hybrid choreography. Drawing from categories as diverse as traditional Mediterranean folklore, rock music, contemporary dance, tribal ritual and spiritual music, D’après une histoire vraie resonates with its own masculinity, expressed in a way that defies all convention.

Conception, choregraphy, scenography and costumes Christian Rizzo

Performers Youness Aboulakoul, Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco 
alternately with Nicolas Fayol, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço, Roberto Martínez
For the premiere Miguel Garcia Llorens

Original music Didier Ambact & King Q4
Lighting Caty Olive

Production ICI - Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie/ Pyrénées-Méditerranée/ Director Christian Rizzo
In partnership with Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 
In the context of the festival Art Danse 2025

^{Photo © Marc Domage}