Christian Rizzo
Since the premiere of Benefit of the Doubt in 2012, Christian Rizzo has kept his habits at a distance: the objects he scatters on stage are more discreet, even absent, as for the bodies that are gradually more exposed, at the same time as dance and movement impose themselves more broadly. The motifs of the fall, gravity and fragility create the link between his first creations, in which the set design installed a very strong frames, and his more recent plays, in which the bodies, their trajectories and their shadows trace as always a very sensitive geometry. Plastic artist, fashion designer, musician, and choreographer: Christian Rizzo is above all a craftsman of the stage who experiments with and discovers his work by making it, modelling it and polishing it. His raw material remains the body: that of his interpreters, whose choice is based on both intuition and necessity. In making an amalgam of their stories and his own, he proposes abstract fictions, with lyrical and rock accents, that simultaneously affect the community and each member in his or her private life. At the Festival d'Avignon, he presented Either the Well Was Deep, or They Fell Very Slowly, Because They Had the Time to Look All Around in 2005, three solos in the framework of Sujets à Vif in 2002, 2005 and 2008, as well as another choreographed for Kerem Gelebek, Sakinan Göze Çöp Batar, presented in 2012.
RB, April 2013.