Tragédie : extrait

In the crescendo, the repetitive, exhaustion and pleasure, Olivier Dubois created a manifest, obsessive and hypnotic piece in ‘Tragédie’, 

He reproduces the experience of a blinding, dazzling – even deafening – humanity. The bodies can no longer be distinguished except by these moving masses, these archaic urges. With ‘Tragédie’, more than just creating a piece of choreography, Olivier Dubois propels us into a “worldly sensation”. The simple fact of being a human does not constitute Humanity: such is the tragedy of our existence. It is only from bodies, from the telluric pressure born from each of our steps and from our conscious and voluntary commitments that this humanity will surge forward. Overexposed in their nudity to better embody their obvious anatomical differences, nine women and nine men present an original state of the body, a solicitation of their human gender undressed of historical, sociological or psychological troubles, ultimately creating a choir in the form of a glorious song/body. Walking, being picked up, facing something, first by incessant comings and goings – the shifts of movement – and then by pounding the floor and transforming the step into a fundamental gesture of their desire.

Just like ‘Révolution’, Olivier Dubois has created a manifest, obsessive, even hypnotic piece where, like the changing tides, these men and women seem to melt and disappear; the friction of their commitments creates the fracas. A rift opens and reveals within this telluric chaos the precious transcendence of a human community. “Through song and dance, humans show their belonging to a higher community: they have un-learnt how to walk and talk and, through dancing, are about to fly away into the air. Their movements speak of their enchantment.”

Credits

Création Olivier DuboisAssistanat à la création Cyril AccorsiMusique François CaffenneLumières Patrick RiouRégie générale François MichaudelRégie lumière Emmanuel GaryInterprètes Benjamin Bertrand, Arnaud Boursain, Jorge More Calderon, Marie-Laure Caradec, Syvain Decloitre, Virginie Garcia, Karine Girard, Carole Gomes, Inés Hernandez, Isabelle Kürzi, Marie Leca, Sébastien Ledig, Filipe Lourenço, Thierry Micouin, Aurélie Mouilhade, Rafael Pardillo, Sébastien Perrault, Sandra SavinDirection de production Béatrice Horn