à l’ombre d’un vaste détail, hors tempête

In the shadow of gestures and things that happen without our noticing, attention suddenly unfolds. What if the most intimate of everyday activities were the space, if not the place, that links us to the invisible?

To begin with, we need to imagine a very simple, very ordinary image. Almost an everyday scene. Perhaps someone cleaning a surface. A person, however, entirely required by what he’s doing. Her movements are extremely suspended, concentrated, diligent. Like a choreographic proposition in which the action is accomplished for its own sake. In the wake of his previous creations, Christian Rizzo opens the stage to the powers of abstraction, without removing it from the spectrum(s) of theater. But here, it’s in the beat and interstice of these two dimensions that the reality of dance can appear. Thanks to a system of veiling and unveiling, constant editing and reframing, the space acquires its own mobility, becoming a character in its own right. Parallel to a highly organic dance, situations appear and disappear according to the trajectories of three curtains. A group of dancers forms, splits and recomposes itself under the gaze of a labile structure. In this way, repetition escapes multiplication: in the filigree of absences and gaps, a space conducive to appeasement takes shape. A detail, a joy, a search for solitude and serenity.

Credits
Choreography, set design, costumes: Christian Rizzo
Performers: Enzo Blond, Fanny Didelot, Hans Peter Diop Ibaghino, Nathan Freyermuth, Paul Girard, Hanna Hedman, Anna Vanneau
Lighting design: Caty Olive
Musical creation: Pénélope Michel and Nicolas Devos (Cercueil / Puce Moment)
Text : Célia HoudartStage
Manager: Jérôme Masson / Victor Fernandes
Sound Manager: Delphine Foussat
Lighting Manager: Clément Huard / Romain Portolan
Administration, production: Les Indépendances, Hélène Moulin-Rouxel et Colin Pitrat
Acknowledgements: ICI-CCN, Anne Bautz and Anne Fontanesi

Production
Producer: l’association fragile
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Coproduction: ICI-Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier Occitanie, Bonlieu, Scène nationale Annecy, Centre National de la Danse (CN D), La Biennale de Lyo, Tandem Scène Nationale Douai-Arras, Théâtre de Nîmes – Scène Conventionnée d’Intérêt National Art et Création Danse Contemporaine, CCN – Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin as part of the Accueil Studio 2025 program, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie
Espaces Pluriels – scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création – danse à Pau, Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers (TAP), Festival d’Automne à Paris, MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis, Bobigny, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie
Home in residence : Cndc – Angers
l’association fragile is supported by the Direction générale de la création artistique, Ministère de la Culture.
Christian Rizzo is associate artist at CN D in 2025 and 2026.