Amare, Nederlands Dans Theater and Holland Dance Festival join forces with FIND to bring dance productions to The Hague that would otherwise pass our country by. The first FIND performance is Celui qui tombe.
The blood-curdling Celui qui tombe caused a furor in many cities in Europe. Celui qui tombe is dance as a modern circus. Six dancers defy the laws of gravity on a large moving platform. They balance, hang from it, climb back up and move with each other, in pairs or alone.
Yoann Bourgeois has long been fascinated by ideas of weightlessness and the physics of suspension. When the curtain opens, your gaze is drawn to the unique hinged square platform. As the stage twists and tilts, the cast of six performers work together to find balance. To beautiful music by Beethoven and Frank Sinatra “ I did it my way”.
Yoann Bourgeois on Celui qui tombe:
“I try to achieve a very specific theatricality by going to extremes from a certain starting point: always situations that arise from very specific power relationships. The set I designed for this project is a floor, a simple plank, that can simulate different movements (balance, centrifugal force, swing) with different mechanisms. Six individuals (a minimal kind of humanity) are present on this floor and try to maintain themselves on it. They react to the physical movements, to which they are exposed, but never initiate them themselves. It is in the interaction of the bodies with the mass of the floor and the unexpected movements it makes that a situation arises. The multiplicity of physical principles evokes a multiplicity of situations. The situations I evoke have a special character: you could call them ambiguous. I try to situate my theater in the shaky balance from which such situations arise.”
