Tragédie

Experiencing a blinding, dazzling, deafening humanity. No longer distinguishing bodies so that these masses in motion, archaic flights, rise to the surface. With Tragedy, Olivier Dubois propels us into a “sensation of the world” more than a choreographic piece. The simple fact of being a man does not make humanity: therein lies the tragedy of our existence. Because it is only between the bodies, between the telluric pressures that arise from each of us, and through our conscious and deliberate engagements that this humanity will well up. Overexposed in their nakedness to better incarnate this obvious anatomical variation, nine women and nine men propose a state of the original body, a solicitation of their human gender rid of historical, sociological and psychological turmoil, to form in the end a chorus like a glorious song/body. Walking, staying upright, facing, first by incessant comings and goings, then by hammering the ground and in this way making the step the fundamental gesture of their will. Olivier Dubois has created a play as manifesto, obsessional, even hypnotic, in which, in an ebbing and flowing movement, these men and women merge, disappear; the rubbing of their engaging creates the crash. A slit opens and lets the precious transcendence of a human community be glimpsed in this commotion. RB

creation Olivier Dubois
assistant to the creation Cyril Accorsi
music François Caffenne
lighting Patrick Riou

with Benjamin Bertrand, Arnaud Boursain, Marie-Laure Caradec, Sylvain Decloître, Marianne Descamps, Virginie Garcia, Karine Girard, Carole Gomes, Inès Hernandez, Isabelle Kürzi, Sébastien Ledig, Filipe Lourenço, Thierry Micouin, Jorge More Calderón, Loren Palmer, Rafael Pardillo, Sébastien Perrault, Sandra Savin

production COD
coproduction Festival d'Avignon, L'apostrophe National Stage of Cergy-Pontoise and Val d'Oise, La Rose des Vents National Stage of Lille Metropolis (Villeneuve d'Ascq), Mâcon National Stage, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Association of metropolitan areas of Saint-Quentin-en-Yveline Le Prisme
with the support of the DRAC Île-de-France, the Région Île-de-France, the General Council of Val d'Oise and Spedidam
artist in residence: Centquatre-Paris
Through its support, the Adami helps the Festival d'Avignon to get involved in coproductions.