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Pierre Rigal is a choreographer and dancer based in Toulouse, France. He founded COMPAGNIE DERNIERE MINUTE in 2003 and has since performed in more than 40 countries…

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R·ONDE·S

10 artists set out in search of a new collective ritual and pay tribute to the universal and ancestral figure of dance, the circle dance.

Dance

Live music

4 female dancers

4 male dancers

1 male musician

1 female musician

Invitation

potential to be participatory

new folklore

Trans-like

Hand in hand

Kaleidoscope

Village square

The Panthéon

The Castle of Chambord

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R·ONDE·S

BALLET JOGGING

A crowd of male and female runners unfolds across a vast space to imitate the movement of birds in the sky and schools of fish in the sea.

Marseille 150 people record to be broken !

Performance for a stadium

Participatory

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Running & dancing

Murmurations

Lungs

Chromatic swarm

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BALLET JOGGING

HASARD

The six performers — who are at once characters and atoms in the universe — appear and disappear endlessly, like fragments of fate echoing one another.

Dance

4 female dancers

2 male dancers

Magic

Lights effects

Virtuosity

Geométry

Rugby

Space-time accidents

Flashback

Does chance exist ?

Gift of biquity

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HASARD

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Mini Bio
Pierre Rigal started dancing at the age of 23...
After studying mathematical economics and then cinema, and practising athletics intensively, he became a performer for choreographer Gilles Jobin in 2002, with whom he collaborated for 3 years. In 2003, he created and performed <bold>his first solo</bold> <italic>érection</italic> with the complicity of director Aurélien Bory, with whom he began numerous artistic collaborations.
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In addition to his own solos (Érection, Press, Mobile), he creates various pieces with contemporary dancers (Théâtre des opérations), classical dancers (Salut), hip-hop dancers (Asphalte, Standards, Paradis Lapsus and soon Scandale), acrobats (Arrêts de jeu, Bataille), and musicians (Micro). For Même, a show combining theatre, dance and music, he brings together 9 performers with multiple talents.

"In every curve, we capture the essence of human aspiration, frozen in a timeless form."

PIERRE RIGAL

PRESS

A man confronts the shrinking of his world — somewhere between theatre, dance, and magic; between laughter and thrills.




Solo

Signature

Physical theater

Dance

Acrobatics

Magic

Confinement

Kafka

Chorographical and political drama

New-York

Mikhaïl Baryshnikov Art Center

Moscow

Seoul

Sydney Opera House

Soon celebrating 300 performances !

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PRESS

ERECTION (THE STANDING MAN)

A man tries to move from a lying to a standing position. He slowly, melancholically, depicts the evolution of human-individual, of human-society or of the human-species.

Dance

Solo

Signature

retro-futuristic tale

Aurélien Bory

Magical and visual illusions

Holograms

Science fiction

Laban

Mikhaïl Baryshnikov

New-York

Montréal

Sydney Opera House

Bangkok

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ERECTION (THE STANDING MAN)

BATAILLE

With a wink of an eye, the two guys are fighting to death. Then, a second wink and they're both laughing their heads off.

Go figure!




Physical theater

Duo

Houmour

Hassan Razak

Pierre Cartonnet

Georges Bataille

Poetical drama

Contemporary wrestling

All-terrain performance

Fighting ant stunts

True or false

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BATAILLE

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Artistic Direction: Pierre Rigal - Administration: Suzanne Maugein - Distribution: Nathalie Vautrin

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