Creation 2026 for 4 performers and a live actor-musician

On stage, five performers and an actor-musician search together for a momentum that never relents, a suspension that dodges the end. Driven by a powerful desire for the moment, LE MARGHERITE composes, between disguises and metamorphoses, a playful and sensitive ode to the ephemeral in which inefficiency is brandished as resistance, a way of thwarting finitude.

On stage, a space emerges as if ‘on the edge’: between lightness and intensity, their gestures and trajectories oscillate between the temptation of an abyss – that of our violent news, of passions that are too strong and of the consumption of our lives – and the need for suspension, thought of at once as desire, recommencement and deviation.

Like a daisy from which its petals are gradually plucked, they play with the intensity of chance, affirming together and in front of us a poetics of the ephemeral as much as of eternity. Desiring, loving, doing and beginning become the variations of a single gesture, the affirmation of a vital movement that has not yet finished being written.

Conception, choreography  Erika Zueneli

Performers  Charly Simon, Benjamin Gisaro,  Matteo Renouf, Louis Affergan, Charlotte Cétaire

Artistic collaboration, scenography Olivier Renouf 

Sound creation, live music  Sébastien Jacobs 

Sound management Alice Spenle 

Lighting design  Sylvie Mélis 

Costumes  Silvia Hasenclever, Léa Simon in collaboration with the performers

With the voices of Michel Foucault, Christophe de Hody (Le chemin de la nature), and sounds, music and songs (broadcast or performed live) by Sébastien Jacobs, Niagara, Charles Gounod, Alessandro Mazza / il Coro Licabella, Henry Purcell, Riccardo Cocciante, Igor Stravinski, Serguei Rachmaninov. Text excerpts Frédéric Forte from the book De la pratique – Scènes et machines / Anthologie de la poésie japonaise classique.

Production, administration Des Organismes Vivants & Ta-Dah!

Distribution, development Chiara Christoffersen 

Production  Tant’amati & L’Yeuse 

Coproduction, residencies Charleroi danse, Les Brigittines,  Central – La Louvière, Théâtre Le Colombier – Bagnolet, Festival Faits d’hiver, CDCN Les Hivernales d’Avignon (fr) & Théâtre  des Doms / le Centre WallonieBruxelles à Paris

In co-production with  La Coop asbl et Shelter Prod

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Session danse (Contrat de création 2024–26), CG93 as part of a territorial residency at Théâtre Le Colombier-Bagnolet, Des Organismes Vivants (with the PAC program of the Région Île-de-France), WBTD/WBI for touring, and taxshelter.be, ING, and the Belgian federal government’s tax shelter.

The company is supported by le Grand Studio.

For more informations: diffusion@erikazueneli.com

photo credit: Oriane Trably

L’article Le Margherite – Creation 2026 est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

Both hailing from Florence, Laura Simi and Erika Zueneli have known each other for a long time: their respective paths are parallel and similar. Here, they come together around a saraband, in the search for echoes, both ancestral and contemporary, of our historical and societal rituals.

Investing the body with the thickness of time, patterns, forces and memories, their respective paths meet in a push-me-pull-you of composition and decomposition. With a touch of irony, the show celebrates the energy of dance as a practice that creates spaces and utopias.

THE TEAM

DESIGN & INTERPRETATION: Erika Zueneli & Laura Simi LIGHTING SCENOGRAPHER: Sylvie Melis LIGHTING DIRECTOR: Oriane Trably SOUND CREATION: Perig Villerbu DRAMATURGY & EXTERNAL LOOK: Louise de Bastier COSTUMES: Laura Simi SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: Marina Nordera, dance historian

PRODUCTION – Tant’amati asbl in collaboration with Cie SILENDA (FR/BE/IT)

Coproductions : Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE); Charleroi Danse (BE); CCNT-Centre Chorégraphique de Tours direction Thomas Lebrun (FR); Arkanso cie-Festival Regards Dansants, in partnership with Le Trident Scène nationale de Cherbourg en Cotentin (FR); Chorège CDCN de Falaise Normandie as part of Culture-Santé (FR) Residencies: Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE); Charleroi Danse (BE); CFB Berlin (DE), CCNT-Centre Chorégraphique de Tours directed by Thomas Lebrun as part of a studio residency (FR); LCC-La Coopérative chorégraphique de Caen (FR); Cap-étoile Montreuil (FR); Le Studio 24 in Caen (FR) Support: With the help of the Fédération Wallonie – Bruxelles, Service Général de la Création artistique – Service de la danse, the Région Normandie, the Ville de Caen, the Drac Normandie. Erika Zueneli is supported by the Grand Studio.  

With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation – creative contract 2024-2026

L’article SARABAND (duo)- Creation 2024 est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

LANDFALL. It’s a fragment of mental space. Perhaps an island, perhaps a no-man’s-land. A frontier zone, a zone to be defended against the shrinking of reality. On the stage, ten individuals expose themselves and blend in, assert themselves and hesitate, in a game of movement and flux that is both constantly shifting and continuous. And while their presence willingly plays with a sometimes exaggerated frontality, above all it gives rise to unstable, changing portraits, like so many possible (re)presentations of the self. There’s something gently subversive about these resolutely frontal bodies and gazes: a vitality, an ardour that overflows into spontaneous impulses – an urgency.

Created from the singularities of its performers, LANDFALL opts for an assemblage of diverse energies and sensibilities rather than a univocal unifying unison. The result is a multi-faceted playground: games guided by the desires of ten young adults, where the ‘WHAT TO DO’ of each reflects and resonates to reveal their convergence.

The prize for the best show of the 22.23 season, in all categories, was awarded by ‘Les Prix Maeterlinck de la Critique’ to the Tant’amati / Erika Zueneli company for their show LANDFALL.

THE TEAM

DESIGN & CHOREOGRAPHY: Erika Zueneli ARTISTIC COLLABORATION & SCENOGRAPHY: Olivier Renouf INTERPRETATION – ARTISTS, DANCERS: Louis Affergan, Alixce Bisotto, Caterina Campo, Lola Cires, Clément Corrillon, Benjamin Gisaro, Félix Rapela, Matteo Renouf, Charly Simon, Élisa Wéry DRAMATURGY: Olivier Hespel EXTERNAL EYE: Julie Bougard PROJECT ASSISTANT: Louise de Bastier, Corentin Stevens ORIGINAL MUSIC: Thomas Turine LIGHT CREATION: Laurence Halloy COSTUMES: Silvia Hasenclever ADMINISTRATION-PRODUCTION: des Organismes Vivants & Ta-dah!/asbl DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT: Marie Wiame

PRODUCTION – Tant’amati & L’YEUSE

PARTNERS: Central – La Louvière / Centre des Arts Scéniques – Mons / CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape, directed by Yuval PICK, as part of the Accueil-studio scheme / Studio THOR, with the support of Compagnie Thor – Thierry Smits / Le Pavillon – Romainville / Festival Faits d’hiver – Paris / Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles – Paris. AIDS: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Session danse / DRAC Île-de-France and Région Île-de-France via Organismes Vivants and Cap étoile (with the PAC scheme of the Région Île-de-France). SUPPORT: Wallonie-Bruxelles International / WBTD RESIDENCIES: Central – La Louvière / CCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France – Sylvain Groud / Studio THOR / Grand studio The company is supported by Le Grand Studio.

L’article LANDFALL est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

On a stage strewn with soft black matter, Erika Zueneli engages a body that is forever on the alert. A body crossed by myriad desires and tensions, one moment springing forth, the next colliding, almost despite itself. lnstability and fragility live in this continuum, one that is resolutely subject to crosswinds. What emerges is a literally vibrant being, in a near permanent state of re-invention. A brief moment of respite and suspension in this odyssey filled with images and sensations, sometimes furtive, sometimes tense or appeased… Si vis pacem, para bellum, “lf you want peace, prepare for war”. From this idea of preparation for combat, Erika Zueneli delivers a solo brimming with troubled energy, the kaleidoscopic reflection of something both vain and essential: the tenacity to persevere, to carry on… in spite of the flaws of life, in spite of its dazzling moments, in spite of everything.

Conception, choreography & interpretation Erika Zueneli Sound design Sébastien Jacobs – Voice Kate France Dramaturgy Olivier Hespel External viewpoint Olivier Renouf Wardrobe Marie Szersnovicz Lighting Damiano Foà Thanks Jean Fürst, Kate France. Production Tant’AmatiIAsbl Partners Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles – Paris II Festival Fait d’Hiver – Micadanses II Studio le Regard du Cygne II CDCN La Briqueterie Assistance Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles – Service de la danse Residencies Théâtre des Doms II Grand Studio II Raffinerie – Charleroi Danse II CDCN La Briqueterie II Coopérative Chorégraphique au Sépulcre – Caen II Studio Cap* The compagny is supported by the Grand Studio (Brussels).

L’article PARA BELLUM (solo) est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

«Allein ! Die Welt hat mich vergessen. Ich hänge rum ! » – Nina Hagen

On a bare stage are three performers. Nothing about the trio is rigid or particularly minimalistic, they are simply enjoying forming and deforming themselves. It is just like a game of potential conjunctions, expanding the scope for clues, and for beginnings. As if the fact of moving forward is never too far from starting over.

Even if the title seems to evoke loneliness, if a London pea-souper creeps onto the stage, if the color black prowls almost obstinately, still a scent of mischief hovers over this crossing, hinting at the more-or-less distant past in which the present continues to resonate. Bodies, movements, and figures are drawn, come into being, and transform themselves. Sounds, music, and voices slip, slide, make their mark and implode. Words escape too, echoing over one another. Words fall, not really under the senses, rather they are happy to swoop beneath, or to soar above.

Past, present, future? The time for conjugation is over. Write no more. Get a real taste of the verb ‘to happen’.

DESIGN, CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE : ERIKA ZUENELI IN COLLABORATION WITH PERFORMER, SINGER: JEAN FÜRST MUSIC: RODOLPHE COSTER, LIGHTING: LAURENCE HALLOY COSTUMES AND SCENOGRAPHY: MARIE SZERSNOVICZ DRAMATURGIC CONSULTANT: OLIVIER HESPEL CHOREOGRAPHY ASSISTANT: OLIVIER RENOUF RESIDENCES 2016 (with public presentation) ESPACE DARJA (MA), MICADANSES (FR), CDC BRIQUETERIE (FR), THÉÂTRE DES DOMS (FR)   PRODUCTION: T’A ASBL & L’YEUSE LES BRIGITTINES / CHARLEROI DANSES – Centre ChorpgraphiTue de Wallonie-Bruxelles / FESTIVAL FAITS D’HIVER WITH THE CW DE BRUXELLES-PARIS / THEÂTRE VARIA (reprise 2018/19) / SUPPORTED BY: FÉDÉRATION WALLONIE-BRUXELLES – SERVICE DE LA DANSE / ADAMI I SACD. RESIDENCE: CND- PARIS / STUDIO: CIE THOR / RAFFINERIE. The compagny is supported by the Grand Studio (Brussels).

L’article ALLEIN! est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

Duration : 60′

Freely inspired by Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Vai e passa is a race reflecting the extreme tension between the frenzy of the great world and the ephemeral nature of life, the violence of being and of nature, with its recurrences and explosions. This project explores the absurd condition of mankind, and the urgency that seems to exist to “be” and to “act”. Against a simple, abstract backdrop, the piece evolves in perpetual motion made up of passages, appearances and disappearances… Just like the crossings made by a stageboat subject to constant, subtle metamorphoses. Five dancers grapple with the relentlessness of time, falling prey to the uncertainty of the next day, a day that may perhaps dawn too late. One life, many lives; one way, a thousand ways, at once different and similar, where each individual makes a gesture and withdraws into a rhythmic movement evoking the ebb and flow of the tides. The eddy of these streams of consciousness, both similar and distinct, highlights the sense of urgency in its continuity, where time runs aground, between two cliffs.

Conception, choreographer : Erika Zueneli Dancers: Antonio Montanile // Juan Benitez // Frauke Marlên // Tijene Lawton // Olivier Renouf, Erika Zueneli… Being distributed… Other collaborators: Son creation : Brice Cannavo // Light creation : Simon Stenmans // Costumes – scenography : Perrine Leclere-Bailly // Stage management : Jimmy Boury Administration: Juliette Addari // Booking : Cindy Vaillant Productions
Tant’amati/Asbl with coproduction of Théâtre de Liège, Les Brigittines and Charleroi danses, Festival Fait d’Hiver avec Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris – France)….. With support of International promotion Authorized Agent WBT/D – WBI. The compagny is supported by the Grand Studio (Brussels).

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OR2 is in essence Olivier Renouf twice. One is a dancer, the oth- er a sound designer. Since 2010, Erika Zueneli has found food for thought in this homonymy. lnterested in a methodology similar to that of participative anthropology, she has documented the subject over a long period, fueled by meetings between both protagonists. From an anecdote told behind closed doors, she has created a poly- phonic spectacle on the theme of identity based around the danced body, sound evidence and visual arts created “from the outside looking in”. This first part puts dance at the heart of the portrait one O.R. paints of the other, enhanced by other viewpoints.

Design and choreography: Erika Zueneli
Dancer / choreographer : Olivier Renouf
Sound designer : Olivier Renouf
Actor / dancer : Sébastien Jacobs
Visual artist, lighting : Sylvie Mélis
Filmmaker : Dominique Aru
Production : A production by Tant’amati/Asbl non-profit organization with the L’Yeuse Association and in co-production with Charleroi Danse – Choreography Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, the National Choreography Center based in Tours, France directed by Thomas Lebrun, and l’Atelier à spectacles, a stage space funded in agreement with the Dreux urban area. With the support of DRAC-Ile-de-France, Cap* and the CND – National Dance Center for studio provision. This project was supported by OV with the help of A.P.A.C.

L’article OR2 est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

Is it because they are melded together that they live this way, with- out tension or bitterness, but instead with a sort of benevolence? Or in contrast, is it because they have been separated for a long time, having stopped loving one another, without even being aware of it? With no fuss, and for a thousand identical moments, they pass through an apartment, the way one might pass through life without seeing it. A comedy that is domestic, ironic, and bittersweet, where an inventory is drawn up; a comedy composed of crossovers and ‘pas de deux’ where even the verbal exchanges are scripted…

Design and choreography: Erika Zueneli
Interpretation: Erika Zueneli / Sébastien Jacobs
Stage design: Perrine Leclére Bailly
Set design and consultant: Olivier Renouf. Lighting design: Abigail Fowler
Sound design: Sébastien Jacobs
Music: Brigitte Fontaine
Production: Tant’amati/Asbl in co-production with Les Brigit- tines, with the support of CG91, Théâtre de Bligny in connection with a residency with DRAC-Ile-de-France, La Briqueterie, CDC du Val-de-Marne et de Cap* for studio provision. Vith project assis- tance from the Ministry of the French Community Wallonia-Brussels – Dance department. Vith the support of the official agency for international promotion VBT/D and Grand Studio (Brussels).

L’article Tant’amati est apparu en premier sur ERIKA ZUENELI.

Duration 30′

For this project, everything comes from music, in this case that of Bach, our pretext and source text, and a circumstance, that of a residency in a space equipped with two pianos. The idea came to us to use them, played by a single pianist, and to choose a number of the Goldberg Variations, a piece whose writing plays on the opportunities offered by two homogeneous keyboards. These two pianos arranged in a fan formation marked the beginning of a stage design that was complemented by a white square on the ground, allowing the dance could unfold in a simple, front-facing bias, and splitting the stage into two dedicated, fixed spaces. This formation proved to be a kind of vortex into which we fell. By playing and replaying, allowing the instrumental and choreographic gestures to shift and gradually restructure, memories or fleeting glances reappeared as if in a developing bath. This process was powerfully driven by a constant pulse and the solid architecture of these variations. We designed the piece as an environment of which we are part; with our own colors, and our individual and collective stories; all washed over by this river of Bach.

Varieazioni (from the ltalian ‘varie’: various, ‘azioni’: actions, and ‘variazioni’: variations) which enables a dual interpretation of the same music. We play and dance a “composed interpretation” of nine of the thirty “Goldberg Variations”.

Choreography and dance: Erika Zueneli
Pianos: Denis Chouillet
Music: ‘Variations Goldberg’ de J.S. Bach et Denis Chouillet.
Lighting: Sylvie Mélis
Production: L’Yeuse and non-profit organization in co-production with the “Le regard du cygne” studio (Paris) and Les Brigittines. Assistance from the Paris municipality. With the support of the French National Dance Center (CND) and Cap for studio provision.

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This, the third instalment of a project looking into the dialectic of conflict, Tournois (Tournaments) features seven dancers in a game of chess. At once manipulators and manipulated, they are meet in a series of «tournaments» that blur the lines between “game” and “me”. Verbal jousting, demonstrations of force, courtship rituals or dressage lessons: constantly swinging between reality and fiction, the choreography touches on situations that are sometimes funny, sometimes intimate and inquire about relationships between men. Sometimes just one detail, a simple grain of sand in the mechanism of life, is enough to change everything, and to lose control.

Design and choreography: Erika Zueneli
Interpretation: Emmanuelle Beauvois, Juan Benitez, Sébastien Jacobs, Claire Haenni, Olivier Renouf, Shantala Pepe
Assistant and set design: Olivier Renouf
Lighting design: Sylvie Mélis
Sound design: Brice Cannavo
Stage design and costumes: Perrine Leclere Bailly
Production: L’Yeuse and non-profit organization, with co-production and distribution by Charleroi danses, co-production by Les Brigittines, L’Espace 1789 de Saint-Ouen, TPE Bezons and CDC of Val-de-Marne/National Dance Biennial and ADAMl. With the support of L’L (Brussels) – research and support space for young designers and the National Dance Center (Paris) for studio provision. Project created with assistance from the Ministry of the French Community Wallonia-Brussels – Dance department.

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