La Danse de Pièze

Duo masculin, La Danse de Pièze explore les relations entre deux hommes quii se font tantôt pairs, tantôt rivaux.

Choreography Héla Fattoumi/Eric Lamoureux

Performers Moustapha Ziane & Hafiz Dhaou Sound Eric Lamoureux Lighting Xavier Lazarini Set design Frédéric Casanova Production Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse-Normandie

This male duo, The Dance of Pièze (La Danse de Pièze), explores the relationship between two men who are alternately peers and rivals. In this dance are instances of barely touching, pressure, impact, improbable points of support, movement in which the energy and the solid mass of the bodies become an invitation to share the sensation of this experience. At once desired, galvanised, entwined and rejected – the bodies of the two dancers are shaped through these exchanges, alternating between sensuality and confrontation.
Malek Chebel’s ideas about homosensuality are reflected in this work. The expression has anthropological roots, meaning, « generally, a Middle Eastern point of view, more specifically Arab, in which in the absence of partners of the opposite sex, one carries over to one’s peers the excess of sensuality which he cannot otherwise express ».
This work is clearly related to Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux’s other work Pièze (Unité de Pression) (Measurement of pressure), in which an interactive structure associated body contact with an audio signal. The Dance of Pièze (La Danse de Pièze) retains the memory of the dance and the emotional and physical states emanating from and generated by the interactive structure, while also revisiting the original raw material of the choreography. Projecting the expressiveness of the bodies as a single vector of receptivity, The Dance of Pièze allows the spectator to feel a direct contact with this relationship of duality — and with the dance flowing from it.