“The blow smashes the silence into a thousand fragments. / The uppercut of the invisible enemy scores a hit. / The pleasure of pain zaps the carcass. / The invisible enemy is very familiar to me. He looks like me. / Against him the fight is lost in advance. / But victory is not the acceptable objective. Failure will be better. / The determination of chance is not funny. / What is funny is misfortune. / Wealth is the heroism of failure. / The strange image of perfection pursues me at a gallop. / When it passes me, I lose the gait. / I let it go by. And I run behind it with the angels that make fun of me. / They make me laugh. I am out of breath and ridiculous.”
Pierre Rigal
Distribution
direction Pierre Rigal
choreography Hassan Razak, Pierre Rigal
with Hassan Razak, Pierre Cartonnet
Production
production Compagnie Onstap, compagnie dernière minute
coproduction SACD, Festival d'Avignon, Parc de la Villette (WIP)
with the support of Région Midi-Pyrénées and of Scène nationale de Cavaillon