Dance and singing are rooted in the most fragile of things: muscles, lungs, vocal cords. Some cultures distinguish them, making them disciplines so far apart that they lose all connection. François Chaignaud and Geoffroy Jourdain wanted to go back to the crossroads of their paths, by proposing to a dozen artists to work together, throughout three years, to develop a common practice. The objective: to put the performers, individually and collectively, in a state of transformation; to invent together a crossing towards other faculties; to go beyond any mastery already acquired to find and reveal "the (in)capacities of living bodies in the face of what exceeds them and abandons them". Drawing on a wide repertoire ranging from the chanted rhythms of Baroque Italy and the ars perfecta of the Renaissance to the ritual chants of the Bunun aborigines of Taiwan and contemporary pieces such as Musik für das Ende by Claude Vivier (1971), t u m u l u s opens onto the beyond of the limits and limitations of earthly and singular life, exposing to the great Outside - to the polyphonic immensity of the cosmos, but also to the enigmas and reveries of the land of shadows - to sharpen the paradoxes of every body that stands between heaven and earth, "torn between eternity and materiality.
Types
- Dance
- Art and shows