La Belle Humeur

The night’s side is unfortunate: obscenus, they’ll say – Jean-Toussaint Desanti

That which repels sight and yet shows itself, that which must remain secret and yet expresses itself. Does night really operate on us, or do we perceive in it that blinding part of ourselves? Does it absorb us, or do we see in it the possibility of spreading out? Is it obscene? Does it denote the unity of concealment and unveiling? Or are we, rather, that black spot that worries the gaze? We are night. We are that vibration, that murky zone. We are that imperious desire that it never stop. We are that body impatient for action, that quantity of force whose charge we sense. That nocturnal space of the “imageless”.
We are what makes night in a world numbed by light. We are this massive body, this labile body, this wild body. We are this tense space, which we pierce to see inside. We are this shadow that throws itself at our feet. We are the matter that stretches, always seeking to include further. We are what stretches, opens.
Neither quite dead, nor quite alive, we are dismantling and recomposing. We are an invitation, a summons to “laissez-faire”. We are that which finally collapses. We are that which meditates, offends and drives the gaze elsewhere. An indiscreet abundance, neither banal nor reassuring. We are refuge, rest, rocking.
We are resonance, and its multiple modes of existence. We are silence, breathing. We are echo, crackling, shaking. We are what deforms, distends, disjoins. We are everything that appears anew. We are the end, and what it completes is incompletion itself. We are this movement.

Credits
Choreography: Magali Milian, Romuald Luydlin
Assistant: Laurie Bellanca
With : Alice Bachy, Romuald Luydlin, Magali Milian, Camilo Sarasa Molina, Anna Vanneau
Set design: Magali Milian, Romuald Luydlin, Denis Rateau and Antoine Desnos
Music: Jean-François Laporte
Outside ear: Marc Sens
Costumes: Lucie Patarozzi
Lighting: Denis Rateau
Sound manager: Valérie Leroux
Dramaturgy: Marie Reverdy

Production
Producer: La Zampa in coproduction with Productions Totem Contemporain Montréal
Coproducers : L’Empreinte Scène Nationale Brive – Tulle, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, L’Usine CNAREP Tournefeuille Toulouse Métropole, Théâtre Molière-Sète scène nationale archipel de Thau, La Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain – Bayonne, La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse-Occitanie
With the support of the town of La Grand Combe and the Maison du mineur
Residency assistance : L’Usine CNAREP Tournefeuille Toulouse Métropole, La place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse-Occitanie, HYBRIDE #3 cooperation project L’Usine / Japan / Villa Kujoyama, Châteauvallon – Le Liberté Scène nationale Toulon Provence Méditerranée, La Maison CDCN – Uzès studio mobile, L’Archipel scène nationale de Perpignan, La Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain – Bayonne, Montpellier DanseThanks to Yuko Mori and Kosei Sakamoto – Cie Monochrome Circus (Kyoto/Japan)