© Ewa Zielonka
The Infinite Approach
Yoann Bourgeois Art Company
conception, set design and artistic direction Yoann Bourgeois
co-authors for certain passages Marie Bourgeois (for Approach 14. Orbe) & Marie Fonte (for Approach 1. Contrepoint)
performance Yurié Tsugawa & Yoann Bourgeois
sound management Pablo Rienks
lighting design and management Jérémie Cusenier
technical management Nicolas Anastassiou
stage management Gwilherm Bevan and Eric Prin
stage construction David Hanse, Nicolas Picot (C3 Sud Est), Hervé Flandrin & Christophe Rayaume
Matteo Bevilacqua piano
music Erik Satie, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven
production Yoann Bourgeois Art Company
Yoann Bourgeois Art Company è sostenuta dal Ministère de la Culture – Direction Générale de la Création Artistique, dalla Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes e dal Département de l’Isère.
coproduction Ravenna Festival, Teatro Romano di Verona
Italian premiere
Yoann Bourgeois is a French artist who straddles the worlds of dance and circus trying to capture the fleeting moment: the instant of suspension before movement reverses its course, and the split second when a precarious balance is formed and shattered. Together with his company, he has accumulated a series of attempts, failures, and new beginnings. Their journey is now encapsulated in The Infinite Approach, a striking patchwork of “episodes” in which Bourgeois and his performers grapple with precarious balances involving chairs, ladders and bodies in space. Embodying his dual nature as a dancer and acrobat, Bourgeois shifts between circus acts and an aspiration to achieve aplomb. Everything is thus transformed into a series of Haiku-like dances that attempt to stop time and escape the inevitable.
