"top"

“Dance has as its preferred tool what we all have at our  disposal: a body, fabulous, possibly listening to oneself, to the other,  to others and to the world…”

« top » is an onomatopoeia, an injunction, a starting signal

« top » tinkles boldly in the ear

« top » is a tiny word consisting of 3 characters

« top » means above, even higher, a kind of summit 

« top » is an arrow; a link between nadir and zenith

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«  top » is the ultimate name given by Régine Chopinot to a piece that has  constantly changed name and format since its inception, in May 2019, as  part of the Fabrique d’expériences, an initiative of Hortense  Archambault, director of the MC93 – Maison de la culture de Seine St  Denis in Bobigny.
While waiting for the work to be definitively  named, the piece was first entitled deuxzérodeuxun then deuxzérodeuxdeux  then 2 0 2 2 then 2 0 2 … and finally « top ».

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With  time as an absolute companion, and in the form of fundamental and  applied research laboratories, this is how Régine Chopinot creates, in  the company of those close to her artistically.
With regular openings  to the public to share the progress of the work in the form of stages,  each as important as the next, the idea is to meet people without it  being auditions, and to work on the spirit and resonance of the places. 

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«  top » is a kind of danced, performed, choreographed matrix, made up of  people on a long-term basis, a moving team with arrivals and departures.  « top » remembers everything, every person, every place, every  improvisation. « top » is a kind of iceberg; it’s advisable not to rely  on the emerged part.  

« top »

Rhythm is the key

The moment when the body starts to move

Rocking and shaking

Tying and untying

In vibration 

Music

Vincent on drums

Nico on guitars

Energy

« top » is anything but soft

« top » dépote

A noisy, fearless force

Naoko Prunelle Mellina

Tristan Deyvron Bekaye Julien

Nicolas and Sallahdyn 

Walk, walk, walk

Run

Jump, jump

Turn, turn, turn

Porter se faire porter

Always lend a hand, always

Let yourself look

Listen see smell