Dance Among the Water Lilies • Christian Rizzo, Je vais t’écrire -In situ version

Name: Dance Among the Water Lilies • Christian Rizzo, Je vais t’écrire -In situ version
Start: 2024-03-11T19:00:00+0100T00:00-00:00
Location: Salle des Nymphéas

7 pm and 8.30 pm, Salle des Nymphéas

March 11th, 2024

*Christian Rizzo, Je vais t'écrire*
© Denise Oliver Fierro

Je vais t’écrire (I’m Going to Write to You) is a danced networking session between Vania Vaneau and Nicolas Fayol, Christian Rizzo’s ever faithful interpreters. Composed by a novel combination of two solo pieces, Miramar (creation in 2022) and En son Lieu (creation in 2020), the physical division explores the vibratory power of parallel solitudes.

Is a body capable of condensing exterior and interior spaces? Following on from his previous pieces, these solos choreographed by Christian Rizzo mark a new direction with its source in the landscape. The choreographer and two interpreters, Vania Vaneau and the hip-hop dancer hip-hop Nicolas Fayol, have answered “the call of the outdoors” together.

After bringing together thirteen dancers’ flows of solitude under one roof, set foot in the world of storytelling and relocated dances born in the confinement of a studio to sprawling landscapes, Christian Rizzo has added a new piece to his choreographic and architectural puzzle, also enabling him to enlarge his archipelago of solos.

*Christian Rizzo, Je vais t'écrire*
© Denise Oliver Fierro

In creative cycles, taking the form of diptychs and triptychs coordinating visual and danced works, the choreographer Christian Rizzo’s body of work constantly puts the space conducive to the summoning up of memory and activation of renewed imaginary worlds back into play. Born of an impromptu created on the occasion of the opening of the ICI—CCN season for the Cour de l’Agora, Je vais t’écrire. is a danced networking session between Vania Vaneau and Nicolas Fayol, faithful interpreters of his most recent creations. Christian Rizzo presents this piece in a version specially designed for the Salles des Nymphéas, as he had done for bc, janvier 1545 fontainebleau in October 2022 at the same venue.

Composed by a combination of two solo pieces (created in 2022 and 2020 respectively), their physical division explores the vibratory power of parallel solitudes.

Each working on their own danced sequences and addressing the surrounding physical space and an invisible vanishing at the same time, the two performers follow the meticulous progression of a space in the process of transformation, revealing itself through the prism of a luminous scenic object.

In situ creation for two dancers
Choreography: Christian Rizzo
Performer: Nicolas Fayol, Vania Vaneau

Produced by: ICI — National Choreographic Center, Montpellier - Occitania / Christian Rizzo, Director
Jointly produced by: Scènes Croisées de Lozère – subsidized stage of national interest

Biography

Before he became a dancer, Christian Rizzo formed a rock band and started a clothing brand in Toulouse, going on to train in the visual arts at Villa Arson in Nice. Arriving in Paris in 1986, he made a place for himself in the fashion world and the creative whirlwind of the city’s nightlife. Chance encounters put him on stage.
While forging ahead with his work as a performer, he created Y’là, a solo piece (1997), presented projet-type(s), a performance for 20 male participants in a store window, in collaboration with the composer Gerome Nox (1998), produced objet dansant n°1 and Hello Dolly at the lab7-ginjal in Lisbon, and a performance with the designer Laur Meyrieux at the “public” gallery (Paris, 1999).
In parallel, he created costumes for choreographic pieces by Mathilde Monnier, Hervé Robbe, Jean-Marc Eder, Félix Ruckert, Emmanuelle Huynh, Rachid Ouramdane, Vera Mantero, Sylvain Prunenec, Christian Bourigault and Catherine Contour, as well as soundtracks for some of them. Throughout those early years, he took an active part in improvisation and performance platforms, alongside Joao Fiadeiro, Meg Stuart, Alain Platel, Frans Poelstra, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson and Simone Forti among others. Since 2002, he has taught on a regular basis in France and abroad, at art schools and choreographic institutions. In 2013 he received the SACD Choreography Award for his work as a whole, and in 2014, the Syndicat de la Critique’s Grand Prix for Dance for D'après une histoire vraie (Based on a True Story). In July 2014, he was appointed “Officer of Arts and Letters” by the Ministry of Culture and Communication.
On January 1, 2015, Christian Rizzo took over the directorship of the National Choreographic Center in Montpellier.