In tight bodysuit, Aloun Marchal and Henrique Furtado measure themselves from head to toe, face their gaze, camp in the center of the stage and shout from the bottom of their guts: the challenge is on. Face to face, in an approach that is both complicit and provocative, they prepare. They explore a range of sounds and movements with detonating records, from the fight to the most impertinent children’s games, from the borborigmos to the sweetest songs, from simple exhalation to the bestial cry. Evolutionary mechanisms lead performers to go further and further into their practices, displacing bodies and manifesting the throats. The pas de deux slips from regulated violence to the pleasure of sensuality, which are both based (and this is the most disturbing) in listening, imitation and the exchange of movements. To the rhythm of these repetitions, the voices and the faces, smiling and cruel, they become entangled, equip and compete. Henrique Furtado and Aloun Marchal are finally ready …

/ credits

creation and cast Henrique Furtado P. Vieira and Aloun Marchal
costume design Camille Rosa em colaboração with Rozenn Lamand
dramaturgy support Céline Cartillier
musical collaboration Jerzy Bielski
light design Eduardo Abdala
inuit songs transmission Marie-Pascale Dubé
belly dance transmission Estela Ferreira
wrestling transmission Bruno ‘Hammer’ Brito
co-production La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie (Toulouse/FR) within “[DNA] Departures and Arrivals” network, co-financed European Union Creative Europe, Göteborg Dans & Teater Festival (Göteborg/SE), Atalante (SE)
residencies Alkantara (PT), EKA Palace (PT), TPE de Bezons (FR), Théâtre Louis Aragon (FR), Ménagerie de Verre (FR), Vitlycke Arts Center (SE), La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne (FR)
support Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PT), Apoio Fundação GDA (PT), Spedidam (FR), Bolsa SACD Beaumarchais (FR), apoio à produção da SACD (FR), DRAC Ile-de-France (FR), Västra Götaland (SE), City of Göteborg (SE)
administration and production Possibilitas (SE), Siège (FR)