En son lieu
Christian Rizzo
Dance
Teatro Municipal de Vila do Conde22 Sept. (Fri) | 21:30
National premiere
M/12 | duration: 50 min. | 5 €
with Audio Description
National premiere
M/12 | duration: 50 min. | 5 €
with Audio Description
En son lieu goes beyond the question of location alone. It flows over the portion circumscribed in space to return to the properties of matter, thus restoring full compositional power. First performed outdoors, on uneven ground along with background noise, breathing and the movement of nature, the solo by skilled break-dancer, Nicolas Fayol, sparks the quality of a gesture in immediate relation with the surrounding landscape. Contrary to the urban environment, contextualising hip-hop dance to the extreme, this type of immersion in a living environment reveals a form of poetic primacy, prior to any usefulness, external to any virtuosity. Back in the black box of the studio, the correspondence between inside and outside, experience and memory, clarifies the terms of a dialogue which, from the start, is played out in pairs. Fragments of narration arise from a bend in the body; a portrait takes shape, divides and splits within a process of abstraction, wherein perceptions and sensations are intensified. But what path should be taken: that of indulging in wanderlust in order to ward off loneliness, or of tearing away from oneself and drifting?
Choreography, costumes, stage design: Christian Rizzo | Dance: Nicolas Fayol | Light design: Caty Olive | Original music: Pénélope Michel and Nicolas Devos (Cercueil / Puce Moment) | Technical direction: Bruno Capodagli | Production and touring director: Anne Fontanesi | Production and touring administrator: Anne Bautz | Production: ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Direction: Christian Rizzo | Coproduction: CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne, TRAVERSE — Hautes-Pyrénées | Thanks: Françoise Lebeau, FAR WEST et Christine Morquin, L’Essieu du Batut - résidence d’artistes en Aveyron | Presentation text: Noëmie Charrié
Choreography, costumes, stage design: Christian Rizzo | Dance: Nicolas Fayol | Light design: Caty Olive | Original music: Pénélope Michel and Nicolas Devos (Cercueil / Puce Moment) | Technical direction: Bruno Capodagli | Production and touring director: Anne Fontanesi | Production and touring administrator: Anne Bautz | Production: ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Direction: Christian Rizzo | Coproduction: CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne, TRAVERSE — Hautes-Pyrénées | Thanks: Françoise Lebeau, FAR WEST et Christine Morquin, L’Essieu du Batut - résidence d’artistes en Aveyron | Presentation text: Noëmie Charrié
Born in 1965 in Cannes, Christian Rizzo took his first steps as an artist in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and created a line of clothing before studying visual arts at the Villa Arson in Nice. Serendipitous encounters led him to the stage. In the 1990s, he performed with numerous contemporary choreographers, sometimes responsible for their soundtracks or costume creation, for instance with Mathilde Monnier, Hervé Robbe, Mark Tompkins, Georges Appaix, and then with Vera Mantero, Catherine Contour, Emmanuelle Huynh, and Rachid Ouramdane. In 1996, he created the “l’association fragile” and presented performances, dance pieces, alternating with other projects or commissions for opera, fashion and visual arts. Since then, over thirty productions have come to fruition. Christian Rizzo regularly teaches in art schools in France and abroad, as well as in institutions dedicated to contemporary dance. On January 1st 2015 Christian Rizzo took over as the Director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, which has been renamed ICI (International Choreographic Institute). He supports a crosscutting vision of creation, training, artistic education and openness to the public. Based on various practices and territories, this project is primarily a forward-looking space dealing effectively with inviting artists, creating the choreographic gesture and studying the forms that it can take when shared.