28th Festival 2018
Main programme
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Sunday 11. Nov. 2018 // 7.30 – 8.30 p.m. (final night) |
From 14 years |
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Schauspielhaus / Große Bühne |
€ 28,00 / 24,00 / 18,00 |
Pierre Rigal / Compagnie dernière minute, Toulouse |
FRANCE |
»Scandale«
(»Trip hazards«)
Dance piece
German première
Conception and choreography: Pierre Rigal
Music: Gwenaël Drapeau, Julien Lepreux
Costumes: Mélanie Chartreux
Light design: Frédéric Stoll
Dancers: Camille Regneault, Emilie Schram, Steve Kamseu, Fabien Maitrel, Antonio Mvuani, Julien Saint-Maximin
Musician: Gwenaël Drapeau (drums, keyboard)
A shaman, but maybe also a magician or samurai, manipulates a group of six people. He is faceless and exerts a strange fascination. His hallucinatory powers put everyone in a trance. Even though this being seems to stem from mythology, he also seems very contemporary in his dangerous abuse of power. The unique thing: it is the performance’s musician – the personified music.
The piece »Scandale» (»Trip hazard«) is based on the hip-hop dance style and combines it with other up-tempo currents in contemporary dance such as breakdance, popping, crumping and clubbing. The title originates from »skándalon« (Greek) or »scandalum» (Latin) and means »impulse« or »nuisance«, though it can also mean incantation, rapture, indignation or stumbling.
Pierre Rigal was born in Moissac in southern France in 1973. He studied mathematic economics in Toulouse and did athletics at the same time. At the age of 23, he came to dance and worked with Heddy Maalem, Wim Vandekeybus, Nacera Belaza, Philippe Decouflé and Gilles Jobin among others. In 2003, he founded the Compagnie dernière minute, for which he created numerous pieces, for example »Asphalte« (2009) and »Standards« (2012). He choreographed the children’s piece »Merveille« (»Wonder«, 2018) for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris.
World première: 14.01.2017, Festival Suresnes Cités Danse, Théâtre de Suresnes, Paris
Contact: www.pierrerigal.net
Production: Compagnie dernière minute
Co-production: Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar – Suresnes Cités Danse 2017 / Centre de développement chorégraphique national, Toulouse – Midi-Pyrénées
The guest performance in Leipzig will take place with the kind support of Institut français, Berlin & French ministry of culture – DGCA, Paris.
