Work 2019
1h15

Ignorance and attachment to our uncontrolled desires are the principle causes which keep us from lifting ourselves up spiritually, maintaining us chained to this cycle of suffering. My intention consists of making this vision of the world and life visible by symbolising it with an entanglement of long ropes in which the dancers are intertwined, attached to each other and submitted to a “machine” which they cannot grasp, overhanging them and incessantly kick-starting a new cycle of life. The choreographic writing will articulate itself around one central scenographic object, a giant “spider web” in which bodies are imprisoned. This creative procedure in a constraint is a habit in my work and this time I want this constraint to materialise, in order to provide a counterpoint for this reality invisible to the eye. There is no unique and limited shape for this truth, everyone has his or her own way of interpreting the human condition and reconnecting with one’s spirituality, the dramaturgical challenge is to succeed in finding the codes of this incredible enigma of life, in order to cast off the chains of suffering and free the human beings.

Choreography, direction and set design Jann Gallois
Performers Inkeun Baïk, Carla Diego, Shirwann Jeammes, Jean-Charles Jousni, Marie-Hanna Klemm or Jann Gallois, Jérémy Kouyoumdjian, Aure Wachter
Sound design Charles Amblard
Light design Cyril Mulon
Costumes Marie-Cécile Viault
Outside eye Frédéric Le Van
Set design consulting Delphine Sainte-Marie

Executive producer Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse • BurnOut company

Coproduction Maison de la danse, Pôle européen de création, DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / Ministère de la Culture • CNDC D’Angers • Théâtre de Rungis • Théâtre Paul Eluard (TPE) de Bezons, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et Création – danse • Agglomération du Pays de Dreux

Supported by la Briqueterie – CDCN du Val-de-Marne • MAC de Créteil • Mécénat du groupe Caisse des Dépôts

Jann Gallois | Cie Burnout is supported by DRAC Île-de-France – French ministry of Culture, by the Region Île-de-France and by the BNP PARIBAS Fondation as well.

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