Tout recommencer + Aux forces mineures

Tout recommencer and Aux forces mineures

The Centre des monuments nationaux has given carte blanche to La Tierce for an afternoon at La Sauve-Majeure Abbey, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Bordeaux-based collective has devised a series of activities designed for this open-air abbey, offering visitors a three-part immersion into the heart of these medieval ruins: Tout recommencer (Starting Over), the first step in a work in progress for six performers that will premiere in 2028; and Aux forces mineures (Minor Forces), a short piece created for 14 dance and classical guitar students from RésoNAnces – Nouvelle-Aquitaine Higher Music and Dance Center; and a series of in situ performances. Continuing its research into lost languages and eras, La Tierce has created a score combining dance and music that is rooted in both the medieval and the contemporary. An epic in minor key to devise another history of humanity, open and sensitive; a return to a common ground where bodies coexist beyond time. In this world of struggles, La Tierce takes Marguerite Duras at her word when she said in 1969: “I am in favor of starting all over again. Situating change, the revolutionary stage, at the level of inner life. If we don't take this inner step, if humans don't change in their solitude, nothing is possible.”

La Tierce

La Tierce is a collective founded in 2013 in Bordeaux by three dancers and choreographers: Sonia Garcia, Séverine Lefèvre and Charles Pietri. Together, they create stage productions, performances and sensory research projects for a variety of audiences. Driven by a vision of dance that extends beyond the purely choreographic realm, they situate it at the intersection of multiple fields, primarily poetry, the visual arts, listening and landscape.

La Tierce has created several stage pieces and performances, as well as the experimental project PRAXIS, which, over the course of its editions, invites different artists to develop a spontaneous and original form during five days of work. Between 2014 and 2016, the company created a triptych centred on the relationship between the body and the object. In 2018, they created D’après nature, a stage piece that attempts to transform a theatre stage into a sensory accumulation of landscapes to be traversed. For this project, they were awarded the writing grant from the Fondation Beaumarchais-SACD. In June 2018, the three choreographers were invited by Léa Bosshard and Rémy Héritier to take part in the project L’usage du Terrain. The following year, La Tierce created There is some wind this year, my friend, a commission for the young dancers of the KALE school in Porto.