RDV Professionnels – New Voices

Marie Orts – Contre-forme

2025

Dates

18 sept. 2025

  • Nikolaz le Coq

Venues and dates

  • Les SUBS

    Lyon

In this piece for three performers, sport-sourced gestures are repurposed, reappropriated and slowed down until their choreographic counterform appears.

Immersed in sport settings, the artists of Contre-forme observed, analysed and then extracted the sense-stirring material of three disciplines: swimming, jumping and fighting. From them, they have extracted action-fragments devoid of any goal; their gestures are orphans. Here, jumps stay grounded, strokes are swum out of water, and bodies wage a duel gutted of any competitive edge. The gravity axis wobbles, and its centre vanishes. Dance is invented In the gap, where we never look: between run and jump, between impact and clench. Each movement becomes a memory, stored and imprinted. In the dip of the ‘valley’ between sport and dance, Contre-forme fashions a minimalistic and modular aesthetic, fed by a deft and site-adaptable scenography of nets, ropes and lines. A mobile and non-invasive piece for all terrain, which converts emptiness and lack of performance into a new kind of presence.

Duration

00:42

Credits

Piece for 3 dancers – 2024

Conception Marie Orts Artistic and choreographic collaboration Talia de Vries & Roméo Agid Performers Marie Orts, Talia de Vries & Roméo Agid Original music Roméo Agid Scenography Goni Shifron Production, development and distribution Rémy Guillet and Charles Eric Besnier-Mérand – Bora Bora productions

Production Acacia Sport partner Paris Université Club (Paris 13e) Coproducers Atelier de Paris CDCN, la Comédie scène nationale de Clermont-Ferrand, Boom’Structur – Pôle chorégraphique, l’Essieu du Batut, atelier de fabrique artistique, Mille Plateaux CCN La Rochelle dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio du Ministère de la Culture Soutiens dispositifs Artistes et sportifs associés de la Ville de Paris et du Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, revue Cahier de Danse, L’échangeur CDCN Hauts-de-France, Centre National de la Danse – CN D dans le cadre de Canal 2024 With projetcs support from Ville de Clermont-Ferrand and with creation supprt from DRAC Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes