Muette

With Muette, Boris Charmatz continues his solo work, like a counterpoint to his lush group pieces, to explore a space “where language doesn’t come out, where the tongue is silenced, where the mouth, open or closed, suggests chasms of emotion.” Conceived as a sort of sequel to his first solo, SOMNOLE, Muette is an invitation to follow the almost invisible motion of a stifled cry, of a body that takes and absorbs violence in silence, of a bubble of saliva that burst at the corner of the lips. This “dance which seethes quietly,” raw and intimate, needs little to unfold: neither music nor clothes. The choreographer bases his work on those things that exist in liminal spaces, that stupefy and leave us speechless. He aims to “dance within the inner muffling.” 

말로 할 수 없는 것을 우리는 어떻게 춤출 수 있을까? 이 새로운 솔로에서 안무가는 침묵을 하나의 소리이자 정치적 현상으로 탐구한다. 

Choreography and performance Boris Charmatz 

Choregraphy assistant Magali Caillet Gajan 
Lights Yves Godin  
General management Fabrice Le Fur 
Administration, Production and Distribution Lucas Chardon, Martina Hochmuth, Hélène Joly, Lola Serre, Briac Geffrault

Production Terrain 
Co-production Cango Centro produzione della danza (Florence), CN D Centre national de la danse, Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris), Charleroi danse, Festival d’Avignon, ImPulsTanz (Vienne), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles), MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny), Le Phénix Scène nationale de Valenciennes, Romaeuropa Festival (Rome), Sadler’s Wells (Londres), Tainan Arts Festival (Taïwan), Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (Wuppertal) 
Co-produced Festival d’Avignon, La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon dans le cadre des Rencontres d’été 

With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels 
With the help of la Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne (Vitry-sur-Seine), le Centre Pompidou Metz, l’Espace Pasolini (Valenciennes) 
Artist residencies La Chartreuse de Villeneuve lez Avignon