à l’ombre d’un
vaste détail,
hors tempête

To begin with, you have to imagine a very simple, very ordinary image. In this new opus with its dreamlike title, Christian Rizzo deploys the spells of an organic dance, inventing a dancing humanity with the help of details and temporal ellipses. To make the invisible visible, he makes Philippe Jaccottet's words his own: “Nothing but space, and in the middle, this eternal murmur” (Rien que l’espace, et au milieu, ce murmure, éternel). We have to go back to the beginnings of the fragile association founded in 1996 by Christian Rizzo. Defying expectations, the choreographer has never ceased to present dancing objects, performances, group and solo pieces. Christian Rizzo has left his mark on contemporary dance. A possible epilogue to his trilogy of the invisible, À l’ombre d’un vaste détail hors tempête is based on the principles of temporal ellipses, creating a dialogue between fragments and dramaturgical continuity. The performers caught in this in-between space – in relation to author Célia Houdart’s text – form a collective in search of a certain plenitude, between the concreteness of gestures and their poetic power.