Francisco Camacho, who divides his time between Portugal and Sardinia, has invited Meg Stuart to come and discover the island, its landscape and its culture. The duo plunge into the heritage of the Nuragic culture, a civilisation that inhabited the location during the first bronze age, moving between the statues of stone giants who guarded the shores to terrify invaders and the miniature figurines who emerged from these ancient strata. This great journey through time has created fertile ground for the birth of a choreographic performance finely scattered with tiny stories, emotional nuances, alternating passages of contraction and distortion of time, ratios and variations in energy of an abrupt or diffuse nature. From these bridges into the past, the two choreographers attempt to break through into an imagined future, a distant galaxy containing the movements of the future. The scenographic performance shaped in real time by Gaëtan Rusquet invites us to roam around a singular world, which successively resembles “a playground, an imaginary city, a cemetery, and a landing ground for abstract forms” as the American choreographer puts it.
Création 2024 / Chorégraphie : Francisco Camacho, Meg Stuart / Interprétation : Francisco Camacho, Meg Stuart, Gaëtan Rusquet / Scénographie : Gaëtan Rusquet / Conception sonore : Vincent Malstaf / Conception lumière : Frank Laubenheimer / Direction technique : Tom De Langhe / Son : Wout Clarysse / Assistance artistique : Márcio Kerber Canabarro / Assistance technique : Tom De Langhe / Productrice exécutive : Soraia Gonçalves / Tour manager : Delphine Vincent / Regard extérieur : Sigal Zouk
Production : Damaged Goods, EIRA / Coproduction : Fuorimargine, Perpodium, Tanz im August – HAU Hebbel am Ufer / Soutien : Gouvernement flamand, Commission communautaire flamande, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement fédéral belge via Cronos Invest, Gouvernement portugais – Ministère de la Culture, Direction générale des Arts, Ville de Lisbonne