t u m u l u s

François Chaignaud / Geoffroy Jourdain

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t u m u l u s

François Chaignaud / Geoffroy Jourdain

The project was born out of a desire to create a community of artists both singing and dancing to celebrate in a spiritual gesture what is most vulnerable and malleable: the body, our muscles, our voices. "t u m u l u s reveals the (in)capacities of living bodies in the face of that which exceeds and abandons them, embodies the gesture of survivors who resist, the sound of an era that imagines the end of time, or the (musical) edifice that accompanies the deceased. »
On a musical repertoire - vestige and trace-, the experience of extreme effort, breathlessness, apnea make a paradoxical body emerge, torn between eternity and materiality. t u m u l u s is a parade of individualities brought together by singing, an uninterrupted farandole, a macabre dance by a heterogeneous community, in between death and life.