Tel Quel ! [transmission 2020]

An extract remodelled by the group Octet, coordination by Sophie Dalmasso and Julie  Nadaud, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).  

Transmission by Yoann Têté, performer in the piece when it was created 

Presented on 24 October 2020, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris).  

The piece when it was created 

Tel Quel ! 

Firstly produced 10 December 2013 at the Centre chorégraphique national in Tours 

Choreography: Thomas Lebrun 

Piece for four performers: Julie Bougard, Matthieu Patarozzi, Véronique Teindas, Yohann Têté 

Music Washington Marching Band, « Crusader » ; Samuel Barber, « C’est magnifique » performed by Aimé Barelli, Lilo & Peter Cookson, Luis Mariano, Cole Porter and Franck Pourcel 

Original duration: 50 minutes 

The group 

Octet (Istres, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) 

The group Octet formed in 2013, for the thirtieth anniversary of the association Pulsion, with the aim of reviving Jean-Claude Gallotta’s ”3 générations” a piece that has illustrated the transgenerational spirit of the association since 1983. The piece was presented at the Théâtre de l’Olivier and the CCN de Grenoble. Since 2013, the group’s female dancers meet to practice once a week; once a month, they meet for choreographic creation workshops with a view to a public presentation of their work. Octet also participates each year in the Rencontres chorégraphiques organised by the Fédération française de danse. 

The project 

A show for young audiences, hovering between circus, dance and cabaret, ”Tel Quel !” uses the mediums of dance, song, games, and theatricalness to narrate in dotted lines the fragility and complexity of human relationships. In the course of skits, now slapstick, now suspended, now tender or poetic, Tel Quel ! questions the relationship with the body, with intimacy, self-construction. The four interpreters, two men and two women, explore movement in all its dimensions – sharing, games, expression or emotion.