musician : gerome nox
light installation : caty olive
stage manager : jean michel hugo
production : l'association fragile
coproduction : Le Quartz Scène Nationale in Brest, CCN Franche-Comté in Belfort, CCN in Montpellier - Languedoc Roussillon and Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Toulouse.
with the support of L'espace des Arts in Colomiers, Chapelle St Jacques in Saint-Gaudens, Centre de developement Choregraphique in Toulouse- Midi-Pyrénées.
special thanks to : David Bernadas, Fiora Marfaing, Thomas Bernardet et Jean-Christophe Minart
autant vouloir le bleu du ciel et m'en aller sur âne, is the first part of a diptych devoted to the relations between sound, light and performative and danced actions.
This work focused on the electronic manipulations of the sound which constitute for the public an experience of images and sounds organised in plans and laminated volumes.
Based on a scenic layout close to the architectural installation, the dialogue between the specific field of the third actors can then be set up : christian rizzo (choregraphic performance), gérome nox (sound), caty olive (light).
Every performing action produce a sound matter immediately transformed. We can question the light as a musical presence of the look.
Transformation or metamorphosis and the glidings of the performing body's status become then rallying stakes, which let float (as in all christian rizzo's projects) ghostly presences. Maybe poetes yukio mishima and mario de s?†-carneiro, maybe the painter Carravagio, maybe....
To conceive an "espace-temps" with different levels, as a space which is not any more a place of dialogue on the world but a dialogue on the human, the place where the human exchange with himself, the sound and lighting space appearing as the interface of this dialogue, which specifically has the mission to give shape to this exhibited moveable intimacy called performance.
christian rizzo
The Antipodes, head high
"Conjuring up. In residence at Quartz, christian rizzo has put on a new show which has to do with dance, performing and magic tricks all at once. Stuck in a structure that looks like a small flat, moving is not the dancer's first priority: he prefers to hold as still as a model.
He chisels his dance in the lights of caty olive and echoes the sounds processed by gerome nox. At the beginning of the show, together with the dancer we are feeling uncertain. Then everything makes sense, until rizzo turns into some kind of screaming rock musician, his face burnt.
After handling specially selected objects, after bloodily operating on a hideous doll, after fighting to rid himself of an old fox skin (or rabbit skin, who knows), rizzo makes a beastly performance. I might as well want the blue of the sky and ride away on a donkey is a true performance, an action show, a score written for a trio which stands against everything that would turn the body into a standard image bearer."
Liberation 03/02/2004 - extract from an article by Marie-Christine Vernay
Open Stage
"(...) christian rizzo and his siren's songs follow bernardo montet.
I might as well want the blue of the sky and ride away on a donkey is an electro hallucination, something that does not truly exist but is invented every night, thanks to caty olive's lights and gerome nox's sounds.
Alone on the stage, rizzo handles powder, marbles, a fox stole and glitter.
And above all the ends up mesmerizing the audience with a fascinating experience, in which nothing is dancing and everything gesture.
This pocket son et lumière show should suit all theatres and art galleries. If rizzo did not find somewhere to show it, there would be a good reason to feel desperate."
Les Inrockuptibles, 03/10/2004 - extract from an article by Philippe Noisette