A new staging rather than a restaging, Panorama recounts, and yet weaves anew, the history of compagnie DCA. With some sequences from previous shows (Codex, Petites pièces montées, Shazam !...) as well as a number of pieces from the early days (Vague café, Jump), getting their very first restaging with a number of changes: female dancers in roles initially held by male dancers; a quintet of performers instead of a quartet; small dancers in roles originally conceived for full-size dancers.

 

DIRECTION AND CHOREGRAPHY
PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ
PERFORMERS
MERITXELL CHECA ESTEBAN, JULIEN FERRANTI, RÉMY-CHARLES MARCHANT, IOANNIS MICHOS, MATTHIEU PENCHINAT, LISA ROBERT, VIOLETTE WANTY
COSTUME DESIGN
PHILIPPE GUILLOTEL
CHOREOGRAPHY, COSTUMES AND SET COORDINATION
ÉRIC MARTIN
LIGHTING DESIGN & STAGE MANAGEMENT
BEGOÑA GARCIA NAVAS
MUSIC
KARL BISCUIT, HUGUES DE COURSON, CLAIRE DITERZI, SÉBASTIEN LIBOLT & LA TRABANT, NOSFELL & PIERRE LE BOURGEOIS, PARAZITE SYSTÈME SONORE (MARC CARO, JOËLLE COLOMBEAU, SPOT PHÉLIZON), JOSEPH RACAILLE
MOVIE
PHILIPPE DECOUFLÉ, DOMINIQUE WILLOUGHBY
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
LAHLOU BENAMIROUCHE
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
FRANK PIQUARD
PRODUCTION
ESTELLE LE GOASDUFF WITH RAPHAËLLE GOGNY & JULIETTE MÉDEVIELLE

 

Premiered in April 2012 at Théâtre National de Bretagne.

Production DCA

Coproduction Théâtre National de Bretagne - Parc de la Villette - MC2 Grenoble - TorinoDanza - La Coursive, La Rochelle - Théâtre de Nîmes - Théâtre de Caen - CNCDC Châteauvallon

 

Philippe Decouflé's offering, played out by some young and talented performers, divulges all the skills that have made him a success: visual surprises, explosive humour and heart-warming poetry.

La Croix, January 2012

Panorama combines the features of past performances, remixed, reinvented, 'best-ofs' from his playful, witty or poetical world inhabited by circus, dance, image, costume, lighting, music and the desire to stage a global spectacle.
Les Beaux-Arts, June 2012

Panorama embraces nostalgia with a crazy elegance.
Les Echos, May 2012

Panorama is a complete work unto itself, deconstructing, combining, weaving together past aspects of works, integrating them into a new scenography, structuring them with scenarios invented specially for the occasion to create a kind of shimmering kaleidoscope representing the ebullient creativity of Philippe Decouflé. (...) Attending a performance of Panorama is an instant youth cure, not at all nostalgia-bound, it is the confrontation between past pieces and the present audience, a closing of the gap between generations faced with an accessible, playful work and its sheer communicative energy.
Première, June 2012