"For a long time I walked on stiits as if in close proximity to myself ."

Françoise Delcarte, Levée d'un corps d'oubli sur un corps de mémoire

It is a poetic image, suspended in time and in space calling forth contradictory landscapes, colours, shapes and the seasons associated with them. It is also a natural phenomenon -“the drunk forests” that represent the destabilisation of the polar forests during the defrosting of the earth, and the strange tree dance that results. With this title Serge Ricci drives us towards the threshold of a dimension where we must penetrate without any bearings, a meeting with an imagination that - “ bestows space with the fluidity of water that plays games with obstacles”. A parable of the transformation of our environment – and the instability and the loss of memory that accompanies this – is the line that followed the group to explore situations that invented themselves at the edges of up rooting : how does the organism react without its roots, its equilibrium, its habits ? And what are its positions, the traces of new identities that can resurge from these disruptions.

Sometimes moving about, sometimes being moved, melting into the framework or revealing it, they are six dancers, six witnesses looking to filter what appears. Emergences of fragile moments where the architecture of the body reveal its self, where each of these “living cog-wheels” sculpt others whilst resonating with the whole – that can become only within the process that privileges passage ways. From threshold to threshold, from internal chocks to collective metamorphosis, they cross through territories of changing perspectives, zones scoured with sounds, of melded signs. Never leaving the structure preceded them and without one state becoming more important than the another – they meander, clothed by fragments of their memories – like trophies torn from amnesia. Near themselves, near the world, they establish incessant rhythm, floating between centre and absence, inertia and movement. Like wind, breath, sea, their presences becomes rhythm, that fabricates and sculpts a singular landscape.

Gilles Amalvi,

for the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de

Seine-Saint-Denis 2009

Coproduction: Company Mi-Octobre / Serge Ricci - Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine Saint Denis - Le Forum, scène conventionnée de Blanc Mesnil - Conseil Général de Seine-Saint-Denis - Arcadi - Plateforme Paris Ile de France. With the support of ADAMI, Micadanses (Paris), Fabrik Potsdam, in the frame of Tanzplan Potsdam : Artists in Residence, Théâtre Jules Verne, scène conventionnée de Brétigny sur Orge and CCAM, scène conventionnée de Vandoeuvre les Nancy, and of laMétive, place of residence of multidisciplinary creation in Creuse (Limousin). Mi-Octobre company is supported by DRAC Ile de France (French Ministery of Culture)

Mi-Octobre company is in residency at Théâtre Paris Villette