La Solidarité des ébranlés

Composing a relationship rather than a form is how choreographer Mélanie Perrier defines her approach. The space of a relationship is the “hard core” of each of her shows, its starting point. Her company is not called “2 minimum” for nothing. It has been the guiding principle of her work for ten years now.

For this fourth Création Habitants (production with local residents), Mélanie Perrier plans to work on the fragility of standing. La Solidarité des ébranlés (Solidarity of the Shaken), is the title she borrowed from the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka (reprised by Anne Dufourmantelle, one of her favourite authors) to give a direction to her project. “It is thanks to our shaking that we will meet, that we will create a common movement together, a balance”, she says, comparing this new adventure to the Japanese tradition of repairing broken bowls with gold, embellishing wounds rather than masking them: “these marks are part of the object, they are even what keeps it together”. And what if, the choreographer wonders, our own balance was ultimately maintained only thanks to that of others ?