Variations on tenderness

Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot and Antoine Mermet

Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot and Antoine Mermet share common approaches, interests, and a shared work ethic: they work to bring intuition into the studio through somatic practices, they share a passion for working with archives and memory, and they embrace vulnerability as a space to connect with audiences. In this first collaboration, their dialogue will weave around the notion of tenderness.

What can this notion teach us about the ways we inhabit the world and our own bodies, about our human relationships, and our connections with living beings? What ethics can guide us in embracing the poetics of tenderness?

Through what they call the methodology of variation (in the musical sense, where a theme is repeated in modified forms), they will craft a performative dialogue based on the gradual transformation of choreographic materials emerging from this tenderness-territory—gestures, movements, or situations that are either new or drawn from archives.

Conception, direction and interprétation: Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot and Antoine Mermet

Sound creation: Antoine Mermet

Light creation: Rima Ben Brahim

Costume creation: Edmée Petit

Production: NO DRAMA

Executive production: Latitudes Prod. - Lille

Coproductions : L’OARA, Office Artistique de la région Nouvelle-Aquitaine ; L’Agence Culturelle départementale de Dordogne ; Le Pacifique - CDCN Grenoble ; L’Odyssée, Scène conventionnée Périgueux

With the support of La Gare Mondiale, Bergerac ; La Métive, Moutier d’Ahun ; BUDA Kunstencentrum, Kortrijk

We are still looking for partners for this project.