Sombrero

“Any resemblance between this text and our show will be purely fortuitous, accidental, or even intentional. At the start, at the beginning of the commencement: a suspicion, just a shadow of a suspicion. It’s hot.

“Any resemblance between this text and our show will be purely fortuitous, accidental, or even intentional. At the start, at the beginning of the commencement: a suspicion, just a shadow of a suspicion. It’s hot. One can hear the muffled noise of the spurs. The saloon door swinging to and fro, to and fro. The sombre, shadowy hero appears suddenly out of the night. He’s so quick on the draw. Hombre, what is your number? What is the number of the shadows? There are primary shadows and decimal shadows. There are Chinese shadows, sombre shadows, luminous shadows. There are drop shadows, shadows of the islands of the world. Shadows of a doubt… I am like my shadow, everywhere I go, my shadow is there, everywhere it goes, I am there; I am only a shadow of myself; a body is always with its shadow, a body knows that a shadow is not a corset. Everyone has a shadow, every shadow has someone. What do our shadows do when we have our back turned? Shadows, where do you go at night? But by the way, do we say shadow or a shadow? Is it a he, a she or an it? My shadow: him, or my shadow: her or even it?”

Christophe Salengro d’après Claude Ponti

Credits

Interprètes Philippe Decouflé, Leila Pasquier, Olivier Daviaud, Bertrand Belin, Clémence Galliard, Sébastien Libolt, Alexandra Naudet, Aurélia Petit, Nathalie Hauwelle, Christophe Salengro, Olivier Simola, Flavien Bernezet, Christophe Waksmann création musicale Brian Eno arrangements et autres compositions Sébastien Libolt textes Claude Ponti lumières Patrice Besombes assisté de Begoña Garcia Navas costumes Philippe Guillotel assisté de Jean Maloscénographie Patrice Besombes, Philippe Decouflé création d’images Olivier Simola, Christophe Waksmann, Laurent Radanovic, Roméo Ricard, Dominique Willoughby son Jean-Pierre Spirli / Claire Thiébault musique composée et enregistrée par Brian Eno – Published by Opal Music, London, Opal Ltd., 2006 extraits du film L’Aurore de F.W. Murnau – Courtesy of Twentieth Century FoxProduction déléguée Compagnie DCA – Philippe Decouflé coproduction Théâtre National de Chaillot, Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg, Théâtre de Nîmes, La Coursive – Scène nationale de La Rochelle, TorinoDanza, Sadler’s WellsLa Compagnie DCA est subventionnée par la DRAC Ile-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, le Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis et la Ville de Saint- Denis

Réalisation vidéo Charles Picq date du document vidéo 2007 production Maison de la Danse Durée de l’œuvre 1h30