What is left when everything was taken away? Blankness, for sure. And what remains to be blown up - to reach the lowest common denominator. To what stubbornly speaks about There, from There, again and again. Whatever it costs. Whatever escapes from it. For enchantment, passage, or joy.
In the beginning, there would be the gesture reduced to the essential: two bodies, two kinds, two colours, two dimensions, two reigns, the same solitude, the same persistent desire that it continues and that it starts again. The same deep desire to be transformed by the other, to be moved by the other. As if everything only existed to be troubled or crossed. There would be two humans and a raven pie, embarking each other in a strange sensitive and poetic ballet, where each body leaves a trace, where each story is written.
First part of a diptych, Là is a prologue, a crude and naked gesture that circulates between bodies and voices, rhythms and worn dances, drops and momentums. Nothing settles, nothing stays, it all rolls away. A prelude to Falaise, this first piece introduces a language without words nor stops, happening under our lives. It turns inner space upside down, like a glove, inviting us to observe our behaviours in the changing surface our gestures offer us. Zooming on the present of here and now, Là reinvents our ignored gestures, our impulsive gestures, gestures of jerks, spasms or screaming, the gestures of life any way, of life at all cost.
Authors and performers: Camille Decourtye, Blaï Mateu Trias and the pied crow Gus
Collaboration in directing: Maria Muñoz – Pep Ramis / Mal Pelo
Collaboration in dramaturgy: Barbara Métais-Chastanier
Set design: Lluc Castells assisted by Mercè Lucchetti
Musical collaboration and sound creation: Fanny Thollot
Lighting design: Adèle Grépinet
Costumes design: Céline Sathal
Recorded music: Joel Bardolet (string arrangements), Jaume Guri, Masha Titova, Ileana Walden-
mayer, Melda Umur
Construction: Jaume Grau et Pere Camp
Lights and technical management: Mathilde Montrignac or Enzo Giordana
Stage management: Benjamin Porcedda or Cédric Bréjoux
Sound management: Brice Marin or Fred Bühl
Technical direction: Nina Pire
Managing director / Promotion: Laurent Ballay
Production administrator: Caroline Mazeaud
Production manager: Pierre Compayré
Communication manager: Ariane Zaytzeff
GREC 2018 festival de Barcelona et Teatre Lliure à Barcelone, Théâtre Garonne, scène
européenne, Festival Montpellier Danse 2018, Malraux scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, ThéâtredelaCité – CDN Toulouse Occitanie, Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne, CNAR, MC93, Maison de la Culture de Seine- Saint-Denis, Le Grand T, théâtre de Loire-Atlantique, L’Archipel, scène nationale de Perpignan, CIRCa, Pôle National Cirque, Auch Gers Occitanie, le Parvis, scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Les Halles de Schaerbeek– Bruxelles, Le Prato, théâtre international de quartier, pôle national cirque de Lille, L’Estive, scène nationale
de Foix et de l’Ariège, le festival BAD à Bilbao, le Cirque Jules Verne, PNC Amiens, la scène nationale d’Albi dans le cadre du soutien du FONDOC, Bonlieu, scène nationale d’Annecy, l’Avant-scène à Cognac. Project beneficiary of the PYRENART cross-border cooperation project, under the Interreg V-A Spain-France-Andorra programme POCTEFA 2014-2020 – European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
With the help from: la MC 93, scène nationale de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny and from l’Animal a l’esquena in Celrà.
With the support of: the DGCA, Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Haute-Garonne County Council and the City of Toulouse.
