October 12th – 13th, 2024 Kyoto Arts Theater Shunjuza, Kyoto
October 19th – 20th, 2024 Saitama Arts Theater, Saitama
November 7th – 9th, 2024 Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
November 12th – 13th, 2024 Bonlieu scène nationale, Annecy
November 23rd, 2024 Domaine de Bayssan, Béziers
November 26th – 27th, 2024 Scène Nationale d’ALBI-Tarn, Albi
60 minutes
The Revival of a Masterpiece
Wearing short-sleeved shirts and denim pants, and barefoot, eight men appear on a dimly lit stage and begin dancing in silent unison. Soon, two drummers join them. The dancers synchronize in pairs or groups, and then suddenly become one person who has left the group. The joining and dispersing, repetition and development are dizzyingly but tightly constructed, leaving no time to take your eyes off them. And even in the neat composition, their bodies are bubbling and heating up, and excitement is pulsating.
Christian Rizzo is a multi-talented leader in the European art scene, with a wide range of fields including not only performing arts but also visual arts, music, and fashion. The origins of this work, which premiered at the Avignon Theater Festival in 2013, date back to about 10 years earlier, when Rizzo witnessed a dance performed by male dancers in Istanbul and was deeply impressed by it. One dance inspires the birth of another dance over time. We witness a moment in the unbroken dance activity.