Wearing skin-tight playsuits, Aloun Marchal and Henrique Furtado weigh each other up, stare each other down, stand firm in the middle of the stage and let out a cry from deep inside : the challenge is laid down. Face to face, close to each other, conniving and provoking at the same time, they are getting ready. They explore a wide range of sounds and movements with clashing styles, from sports fighting to teasing childish games, from rumbling noises to lullabies, from straightforward breathing to bestial yelling. Progressive mechanisms drive the performers even further into their exercise, moving disjointedly and opening their throats more and more. The pas de deux glides from controlled violence to sensuality, which are both disturbingly based on listening, mimicry and exchange of movements. Progressively, voices and faces, laughing and cruel, get tangled, mixed up and rival each other. Henrique Furtado and Aloun Marchal are ready, at last...

Ficha Artística

Conception and Interpretation

Henrique Furtado Vieira and Aloun Marchal

 

Costumes

Camille Rosa in collaboration with Rozenn Lamand

 

Dramaturgy

Céline Cartillier

 

Musical Collaboration

Jerzy Bielski

 

Light Design

Eduardo Abdala 

 

Transmission of Inuit Songs

Marie-Pascale Dubé

 

Transmission of Belly Dance

Estela Ferreira

 

Transmission of Wrestling

Bruno "Bammer" Brito

 

Production

Possibilitas (SE), Siège (FR)

 

Tour Management

O Rumo do Fumo

 

Coproduction

La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie (Toulouse/FR) within the network “[DNA] Departures and Arrivals”, co-financed by Europe Creative programme of the European Union, Göteborgs dans & teater Festival (Göteborg/SE), Atalante (SE)

 

Artistic Residency

Alkantara (PT), EKA Palace (PT), TPE de Bezons (FR), Théâtre Louis Aragon (FR), Ménagerie de Verre (FR), Vitlycke – Centre of Performing Arts (SE), La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne (FR)

 

Support

Västra Götalandsregionen (SE), Göteborgs stad Kultur (SE), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PT), Fundação GDA (PT), Spedidam (FR), Writing support with SACD Beaumarchais (FR), Production support with SACD (FR), Drac ile-de-France (FR)