light installation : cathy olive
with : matthieu doze, donata d'urso, cédric courtois, pascale paoli, christian rizzo
construction : jérôme dupraz et prototoutyp
production : l'association fragile
coproductions : création résidence le Quartz / Centre dramatique et chorégraphique de Brest, Centre de développement chorégraphique de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, and all those who participated to the project.
l'association fragile benefited from a studio lent by the Centre chorégraphique national de Tours, the support of the Direction Régionale des affaires culturelles d'Ile de France Ministère de la culture et de la communication, the support of the Ménagerie de verre and a partnership with mov'in.
On the occasion of et pourquoi pas : "bodymakers", "falbalas", "bazaar", etc, etc...?, an object made of a CD by gerome nox, visuals by laur meyrieux and a booklet by marie roche, has been realised in collaboration with the Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble.
et pourquoi pas : "bodymakers", "falbalas", "bazaar", etc, etc... exhibits five dancers on a moving pedestal, a circular and revolving podium, similar to those on which cars are presented at the Car Show.
Five bodies, "objects" of fantasy, examined from every angle, driven by a double movement, oscillating between the construction of figures which can be spotted and hybridations due to the mix of a history of the body and the costume.
"Objects" in movement constitute a double excuse to stop a shape and extricate an imaginary body and representation from it.
At the same time an object proposing a work of the body and a work of the body which presents a plastic object.
Choreographic and sculptural figures proceeding more from a defiguration of the body than from identitary body but on the contrary, to initiate a visual accumulation of imaginaries, to keep only the trace, a kind of global body, completely inapprehensible.
et pourquoi pas : "bodymakers", "falbalas", "bazaar", etc, etc... also plays with a taste for the luminous vibration, the atmospheric and the theatre of the marvellous (notably with the presence of the lighting work of Cathy Olive) and reveals itself as a curiosity room.
A dyslexic epic in costume.
Christian Rizzo doesn't look like himself. His Et pourquoi pas : "bodymakers", "falbalas", "bazaar", etc, etc...? is not directed towards words but towards contemporary art and it takes clothes as an exhibit. Fantasy creatures pose enticingly, perched on a circular device which turns around continuously.
Vertigo is at work. The choreographer tries to get out of the body, the costumes (beautiful), lights and incongruous prop, to spring indefinite sexual forms, as human as animal. We like the ham pink costumes of the little pigs who get in a tangle. The sophistication of this erotic mystery, its suspense, get unlimited support.
Dominique Frétard, Le Monde - March 2001