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Since many years we have been exploring group choreography, and the art of creating on stage, with a group of performers, a moving organism capable of forming and breaking down into flexible and fluid formations, which is the sum of its thinking cells, creating a collective consciousness.
A world in which the multiform harmony of the different human figures that compose it, the acceptance of individual differences, their valorisation and visibility contribute to the enrichment of the whole.
A world at the antipode of the usual synchronous formations.
In this world in search of collective harmony, bodies merge in the quest for a new alloy, creating relationships so intense that emotions are shared, understood, felt by all. Thus, each one finds, in the simultaneity of everyone’s movements, the place for the maximum deployment of his or her own.
After Flow (production 2018), inspired by the captivating and fluid spectacle of shoals of fish and swarms of birds, this new group choreographic adventure is born under the sign of celestial mechanics and the eternal movement of the stars. A place where «things exist in interdependence, and this interdependent existence of things occurs in the form of orderly chaos» (Chögyam Trungpa).
In movement, this quest for orderly chaos is expressed by the conjunction of trajectories and geometries, rotations and revolutions, by ritual gestures and renewed traditions. And by new scenic orbits.
credits
Piece for 8 dancers
Idea & choreography Katarzyna Gdaniec & Marco Cantalupo
Premiere : April 2021
A coproduction : Compagnie linga, L’Octogone Théâtre de Pully, Grand Théâtre de Calais, À la Zim ! Muzik
Interpreters: Aude-Marie Bouchard, Cindy Villemin, Csaba Varga, Clélia Mercier, Erwin Le Goallec, Kinda Gozo, Lucien Zumofen, Ai Koyama
Original music : L’Ombre de la Bête (Mathias Delplanque, François Robin)
Lighting design: German Schwab
Set design: Marco Cantalupo, Emilien Allenbach
Costumes: Geneviève Mathier
Duration: 60 minutes
biographies
Ai Koyama was born in Japan. She started Ballet at 5 years old with Tatuo Kasuya. She graduated from the Ochanomizu National University in Tokyo and from the School for New dance Development in Amsterdam. She worked for the Heddy Maalem Company (FR) and joigned Linga in 2007.

attended courses at the Conservatoire de La Rochelle before being admitted to CNSMD in Lyon. She worked for Nasser Martin Gousset, Pierre Pontvianne, Meyer Chaffaud Company before joining Compagnie Linga in 2019.

Jean-Yves Phuong (France) graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower and worked at the Cannes Jeune Ballet (FR). He joins Compagnie Linga and takes part in the productions Concerto and Tabula.

Cindy sstudied at the Conservatory of Bordeaux.
After obtaining a EAT diploma in Contemporary
Dance she worked with Claude
Brumachon at the CNN of Nantes (FR), the
Collectif a.a.o. (FR) and the Lassen Compagnie
(FR). She joined Linga in 2015
German Schwab is an independent lighting lesigner and musician. He works currently as technician at the Octogone Theatre. Since 15 years, German is the tour technician of the Compagnie Linga for whom he has created the lighting design of many productions (Step 1, We are not I, Solographies, Tabula and ONA).

Csaba studied at the Experimental Dance Academy Dance of Salzburg (AT) and at the Contemporary Dance School of Budapest (HU). He worked for Kubilai Kahn Investigations (FR and the Ballets C de B (BE) before joining Compagnie Linga. In parallel Csaba is currently working with Anton Lachky Company and GN/MC (Guy Nader et Maria Campos) and is teaching through Europe since 2013.

Graduated from the CRR of Boulogne-Brillancourt (FR), Aude-Marie Bouchard (France) works for the Compagnie Junior Marchepied (Lausanne / CH). Former student at the Manufacture (Lausanne /CH), she joined Compagnie Linga in 2018.


Erwin Le Goallec, born in Paris (FR), trained at the Académie de Danse Internationale de Paris and at the CNSMD de Lyon. Black belt in karate, choreographer for several pieces, Erwin then collaborates with Hervé Robbe and the Maioui Company. He joined the Linga Company in 2020 for COSMOS.

Clélia Mercier (Belgique) trained at the Rudra Béjart School and worked with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne. Then she collaborated with Julio Arozarena, the Marchepied Lausanne and the Cisco Aznar Company. She joined the Linga Company in 2020 for the production Flow.

François Robin (France) “Veuze” piper (bagpipes from Nantes), doudouk and violin, passionate and inventive, explorer of sounds, François Robin has forged a place all his own on the scene of today’s traditional music. His approach consists in a constant exploration of the instrument, to divert it from its primary use, from its reality, and to play with all the elements that make it up. To make it a “multi-purpose” instrument. For that, all the means are good, the objective being to expand the field of sound possibilities of this bagpipe, and in finality, to change the glance which one can carry on this instrument so typified, so connoted. One of the great faculties of traditional musicians of all times is their ability to adapt to their changing environment.

Martin Angiuli (Italy) has been a professional international dancer for 10 years, and director of ConTrust Collective M.A. Assistant, pedagogue, choreographer, videographer and artistic director at Ayouva Island. In 2021 he published the book "Contraddizioni in movimento" at Raggio Verde. He joined the Linga Company in 2021.
sponsors
Compagnie Linga has been granted a Joint Support Convention from City of Pully, City of Lausanne, and Canton of Vaud, as well as a Tour Support Program from Pro Helvetia - The Swiss Arts Council, and from CORODIS.
The project Cosmos is also supported by Loterie Romande, the Fondation Philanthropique Famille Sandoz, the Fondation Françoise Champoud, the Fondation Corymbo, the Fondation Engelberts, the Fondation du Centre Patronal.
The company is in residency at L’Octogone, Théâtre de Pully.