Tragédie

To experience mankind as one blinding, dazzling, deafening body. To be unable to distinguish between individual bodies so that archaic impulses rise forme these moving masses. In Tragedie, Olivier Dubois immerses spectators into a feeling of the world rather than a choreographiy. Being human is not synonymous with humanity – such is the tragedy of our existence. Because it is only through our bodies, through the telluric tension born from the steps taken by each and everyone of us through our conscious and deliberate commitments that this humanity will emerge.

Overexposed in their nudity so as to incarnate the obvious anatomic differences between them, nine women and nine men articulate an original bodily condition, a quest of their human nature freed from psychological, historical and sociological problems … Ultimately forming a chorus like a glorious body/song.

To walk, to stand upright to face up, first through constant back and forth movements twists and turns, then by pounding the floor and thus reiterating with steps the basic gesture or their willpower.

As with Revolution, Olivier Dubois has created an obvious, obsessive or even hypnotic show where these women and men blend and disappear in a fluctuating movement,  the friction of their clashing bodies causing a racket. A gap opens up and in this terrestrial commotion lets us catch a glimpse of the precious transcendance of the human community.