La lévitation réelle
Vertigo is usually described as a fear of falling, but what happens when the ground deserts us, when it just… lets us go? We’d be falling up, into a boundless, infinite emptiness.
Our purpose in this piece is to sustain an illusion of weightlessness that connects directly to the audience body using a language that was devised for this very performance. Because there is no trick behind all this; the body ends up believing it. The performing space is public space, so passersby will ultimately become an audience through the sheer act of witnessing the performance.
INFO
Duration: 15 minutes
Vertigo is usually described as a fear of falling, but what happens when the ground deserts us, when it just… lets us go? We’d be falling up, into a boundless, infinite emptiness.
Our purpose in this piece is to sustain an illusion of weightlessness that connects directly to the audience body using a language that was devised for this very performance. Because there is no trick behind all this; the body ends up believing it. The performing space is public space, so passersby will ultimately become an audience through the sheer act of witnessing the performance.
INFO
Duration: 15 minutes
ABOUT THE COMPANY
To define l’immédiat one could say that it has specialized in the complication of its definition. As soon as it has done something in one way, it launches into a new attempt.Its exploration is always that of the encounter with the public. How to meet in all possible ways, the most people possible, while inventing each time a new relationship.
CREDITS
Director & Choreography: Camille BOITEL
Assistant Director, collaborator: Sève BERNARD
Creation team: Hemda BEN ZVI, Camille BOITEL, Vincent BRIERE, Tuk FREDERIKSEN , Voleak UNG
Performers: Enrico FERLUGA, Àfrica LLORENS, Céleste MENDOZI, Nahuel MENENDEZ, Johnson SAINT-FELIX, Maxime SEGHERS
Technical Director: Stéphane GRAILLOT
Production Management: Elsa BLOSSIER, Julie RIGAULT and Agathe FONTAINE
Production: L’immédiat
Photo: L’immédiat
Coproduction: Les Ateliers Frappaz, Centre National des Arts de la Rue et dans l’espace public, Villeurbanne / L’Abattoir, Centre National des Arts de la Rue – Pôle Arts de la Rue de Chalon-sur-Saône / Le Fourneau, Centre National des Arts de la Rue et de l’Espace Public / Lieux publics, Centre National de Création pour l’Espace Public de Marseille / Groupe Geste(s) / CIRCa, Pôle National Cirque, Auch Gers Occitanie / La Verrerie d’Alès, Pôle National Cirque Occitanie / Théâtre Victor Hugo, Scène des Arts du Gestes de Bagneux, EPT Vallée Sud Grand Paris / Equinoxe, Scène Nationale de Châteauroux
Financial support from FONDOC, Montpellier Danse and Hivernales d’Avignon
L’immediat benefits from the financial support of le Ministere de la Culture (the Arts Council), along with « La Région Ile de France » in the name of its contribution to territorial enhancement through artistic creation. L’immédiat receives project development funding fril the Fondation BNP Paribas.