Extracts from the back catalog: jalousie, shiva pas, hélas tique, boîte noire, squelettes, l'argothique, talons aiguilles, boléro... and other choreographic poems.
A sprawling creature, Octopus moves here, there and everywhere. Gestures and voices form this complete performance featuring eight dancers and two musicians, performed to live music by times somber and by times crystalline (Nosfell). Octopus is a sequence of scenes, variations on the theme of the beauty of these dancing bodies, constantly metamorphosing into something else. They are sensual, baroque or burlesque. They inveigle us along a merry path of mirror play, half dark, half bright. Optical games where the silhouettes of the dancers fragment.
DIRECTION AND CHOREGRAPHIE
PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LIVE INTERPRETATION
NOSFELL, PIERRE LE BOURGEOIS
DANCERS
FLAVIEN BERNEZET, ALEXANDRE CASTRES, MERITXELL CHECA ESTEBAN, ASHLEY CHEN, CLÉMENCE GALLIARD, SEAN PATRICK MOMBRUNO, ALEXANDRA NAUDET, ALICE ROLAND
LIGHTING DESIGN
PATRICE BESOMBES ASSISTÉ DE BEGOÑA GARCIA NAVAS
VIDEO DESIGN
PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ, LAURENT RADANOVIC, OLIVIER SIMOLA, CHRISTOPHE WAKSMANN
COSTUME DESIGN
JEAN MALO
HAIR DESIGNER
CHARLIE LE MINDU
SET DESIGN
PIERRE-JEAN VERBRAEKEN
STAGE MANAGEMENT
PATRICE BESOMBES, BEGOÑA GARCIA NAVAS, ALTERNATELY
SET CONSTRUCTION AND STAGE MANAGING
LÉON BONY, PASCAL REDON
SOUND
ÉDOUARD BONAN, JEAN-PIERRE SPIRLI, ALTERNATELY
LIGHTS
DENIS GOBIN
VIDEO MANAGING
ERIC CHAPRON, LAURENT RADANOVIC, ALTERNATELY
SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMER
CHRISTOPHE SALENGRO
TEXTS
CHRISTOPHE SALENGRO, GHERASIM LUCA (HERMÉTIQUEMENT OUVERTE, AVEC L'AUTORISATION DES ÉDITIONS JOSÉ CORTI)
DANCE COACH
ÉRIC MARTIN, DAPHNÉ MAUGER, ALTERNATELY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FRANK PIQUARD
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
LAHLOU BENAMIROUCHE
PRODUCTION
CHARLOTTE RENAUD ASSISTED BY JULIETTE MÉDEVIELLE
INTERNATIONAL TOURING
ESTHER WELGER-BARBOZA
PRESS
DOROTHÉE DUPLAN, PLAN BEY
THANKS
RICHARD LAILLIER, THIBAULT PRADET, BENOÎT SIMON, TOPOLINO, WARNER CHAPELL MUSIC FRANCE, YOHJI YAMAMOTO, THÉÂTRE NATIONAL DE BRETAGNE'S TEAM
Premiered in October 2010 at Théâtre National de Bretagne.
Production DCA
Co-production Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, La Coursive - Scène Nationale de la Rochelle, Torinodanza, Théâtre de Nîmes
Our friend and decorator Jean-Pierre Verbraeken died on April 7, 2011, leaving behind him a plethora of special effects, mechanisms, flying devices and accessories for the compagnie DCA performances, from Codex (1986) to Octopus (2010). These shows are dedicated to his memory.
Philippe Decouflé unleashes a series of hybrid, subtly disillusioned creatures. A magnificent return to the stage.
Télérama, January 2011
An interplay of limbs fragmented by low-angled light, a skin-grazing duet enhanced by the combination of black and white, no aspect is left unexplored in a one-and-a-half-hour celebration of buttocks, breasts, tongues.
Les Inrocks, October 2010
Decouflé never rejects a good idea, however short-lived, so long as it has visual worth. (...) The result of this irrepressible indulgence is an assumed tendency towards a flourish of spectacular punctuation marks that disappear no sooner than they are formed.
Le Monde, October 2010
He (Philippe Decouflé) also gives his slant on Ravel's Boléro reinterpreted by Labyala Nosfell and Pierre le Bourgeois, who form an integral part of the performance together with an uncompromising, but in no way cacophonous score.
Libération, October 2010
