Tumulus

t u m u l u s is a boundless procession of thirteen dancing and  singing bodies within the same practice, and as part of the same  gesture. Resulting from a collaboration between François Chaignaud and  Geoffrey Jourdain, director of Cris de Paris, this project aims to  combine these two arts and to think of dance and music together. Tumuli  were once graves underneath a hill. A peculiar type of burial, these  “pieces” house as many bodies of the dead as the afterlife that pushes  through them. The research that leads this project resides at the heart  of this paradox: a dead always contains life. In the middle of the set, a  mound takes over the space. It is covered in greenery; it is,  simultaneously, a mausoleum and a landscape. It is a volume onto which  the dancers-singers and the singers-dancers climb, hide, and flow.