Company Pietragalla - Derouault - the Théâtre du corps


We live the performing arts as one of the last collective rites, a last place of communion...

	The choreographic work questions the body and culture that shapes an individual. The indelible marks engraved in the flesh conducts the writing. In contrast to such "conceptualization" of the body object , the human remains at the heart of inspiration and research.	Our relationship to intimate and collective memory enriches our study on the essence of movement and its universality. We define our work as Théâtre du corps: We question the links and rules assimilated on the surface, reaffirming the perception we have of the gesture by continuously questioning what defines a human being.



	Choreography as universal language. Our society splits the mind from body. and divids conscious from unconscious, manifesting repressed thoughts in the flesh. Our body has developed and acquired a hidden language of its own that dance attemps to transmit. It is a vector of dream, unconsciousness and imagination. The movement becomes its narration, expressing a repressedinner dialogue. Primitive societies experimented with dance as a dialogue with the sacred. Trance / dance, language of tribal cultures, all memory of improvisations, leads us inexorably back to our true nature. The choreography as a medium liberates the unconscious, a means to recreate this original link. It provides a shared place for ritual to liberate man emotion and reflection. Dance is not just an object of intellectual analysis, it is also the art of sensitivity. The dramatization of the body and its language invites the audience to place itself beyond the prism of the intellect.

	Photo Pascal Elliott	As artists and citizens involved in the world of today, we draw our inspiration from history. We have a constant concern for connecting history with the present, for a better comprehension of the philosophy behind different cultures. The more one explores the art of movement ... the more one wants to find the essence of gesture..., the more one tends towards a form of purity .... Dance draws us to our origins: Movement, first expression before language, the dialogue that confronts us with our own primitive impulse. Dance is questioning, reaching deep within oneself. Dance, theater, music, cinema, circus, visual arts, literature, echo one another. By merging these, we create new forms of expression shaped by social currents and events in a transforming world.