“Board Games” by EZ3 Company at Espace Georges-Sadoul

Compagnie EZ3’s “Jeux de Société” is the new creation of choreographer and dancer Ezio Schiavulli. This co-production with the Pôle Spectacle Vivant of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges will be presented this Friday, January 20, at 8:30 pm, on the Espace Georges-Sadoul stage.

Board Games plunge into the heart of processes of integration: how within a group, social identities are constructed and created, the complex network of power relations, the ties and breakdown of relations of person. At first playful, the piece gradually wears down the dancers and the audience, evoking increasingly strong and mixed emotions.

A cinematic approach

Through a short film we discover six dancers filmed in a wasteland where we predict that they will appear in the transformation, each one endowed with a language, an aesthetic that characterizes their personalities.

Different pieces at each performance

The games between the dancers will create a different creation every night. The rules are codified but the sequence and the outcome are chosen in real time, leaving performers-turned-players the freedom to juggle between categories and situations.

A unique musical creation

Board Games establish a strong relationship between choreographic writing and musical composition. The dancers design and record during the piece various musical tableaux, which are composed and mixed into a sound architecture related to the choreographic score.

Desire for freedom and need to belong

From this micro-society that was born before our eyes, Ezio Schiavulli brought back the rules and norms, the basic naivety, the energy given and spent and the search for freedom of self-expression. He deploys a wide register of dance techniques in a vast movement that occupies space. The use of a language that unfolds with fluidity between actions and sounds offers the possibility of intimate mixing of two registers, the concrete, realistic approach, represented by sounds and the evocation of the dream, of utopia, visualized through dance. . In this question, in today’s midst, of identities and affiliations, Ezio Schiavulli reveals a plea for accepting risk, of loss in order to gain authenticity and autonomy. It illuminates the inexorable pendulum between the need to belong and the desire to emancipate oneself that is specific to human societies.

“Board Games”

General design: Ezio Schiavulli Choreography: Ezio Schiavulli in collaboration with his performers Performers: Antonella Albanese, Vincent Constant, Alizée Leman, Vera Mallien, Gabriele Montaruli, Andrea Palumbo, Music creation: Antonello Arciuli Video creation and photo credits : Creation of Jesus s.Baptista lighting and technique: Ezio Schiavulli, Aurélien Boeglin and Sylvain Delbart Costumes: Bénédicte Blaison Production: Compagnie Ez3_Ezio Schiavulli — Association Expresso Forma – Associazione RIcerca E SviluppoCOreografico. Co-production: L’estdanse, Grand-Est production and distribution network • André Malraux Cultural Center, National Stage of Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy • Le Carreau, National Stage of Forbach and Eastern Moselle • POLE-SUD, CDCN of Strasbourg • Le Manège, National Stage of Reims • ESPACE 110, Cultural Center of Illzach • Metz/Arsenal Musical City • La Madeleine, Conventioned Stage of Troyes • Live Show, Urban Community of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges • ACB, National Stage of Bar- le-Duc • La Filature, National Stage of Mulhouse •CCN – Ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin • The performance hall Europe, City of Colmar •Théâtre le Nouveau Relax, Stage of special interest under agreement National at Chaumont. Association des Scènes du Nord Alsace The MAC in Bischwiller • The Saline in Soultz-Sous-Forêts • The Castine in Reichshoffen • The Nave in Wissembourg • The Espace Rohan in Saverne • Relais Culturel in Haguenau Full price: €20 – Reduced price: € 17 – Unity rate: €8 – Family (parents + children under 18): €50. Reservations at 03 29 56 14 09 or billetterie@ca-saintdie.fr.