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Pierre Rigal is a choreographer and dancer based in Toulouse, France. He founded COMPAGNIE DERNIERE MINUTE in 2003 and has since performed in more than 40 countries…

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R·ONDE·S

10 artists set out in search of a new collective ritual and pay tribute to the universal and ancestral figure of dance, the circle dance.

Dance

Live music

4 female dancers

4 male dancers

1 male musician

1 female musician

Invitation

potential to be participatory

new folklore

Trans-like

Hand in hand

Kaleidoscope

Village square

The Panthéon

The Castle of Chambord

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BALLET JOGGING

A crowd of male and female runners unfolds across a vast space to imitate the movement of birds in the sky and schools of fish in the sea.

Performance for a stadium

Participatory

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Running & dancing

Marseille 150 people record to be broken !

Murmurations

Lungs

Chromatic swarm

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HASARD

The six performers — who are at once characters and atoms in the universe — appear and disappear endlessly, like fragments of fate echoing one another.

Dance

4 female dancers

2 male dancers

Magic

Lights effects

Virtuosity

Geométry

Rugby

Space-time accidents

Flashback

Does chance exist ?

Gift of biquity

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Mini Bio
Pierre Rigal started dancing at the age of 23...
After studying mathematical economics and then film, and following an intensive practice of high level athleticism ( 400m and 400m steeple ), Pierre Rigal dedicated himself to an artistic path: he has developed his creativity at the crossroads of theatre, music, opera, visual arts and, of course… dance — which he explores in all its various dimensions.

The solos he performs himself such as Érection, Press, Mobile, Suites Abscentes, have become his signature pieces. He also ventures into contemporary dance, hip-hop, ballet, acrobatics, folk dance, musical comedy and the link between art and sport. Through the widely polysemic titles he chooses, one finds humor and melancholy which sets the tone and the mood of his pieces which address a variety of themes.

"In my piece Même, there is a character who arrives late twice, to his own show and under the exact same circumstances, like in a real-life déjà-vu. I feel like him, hi-jacked by the mystery of the passing of time…"

PIERRE RIGAL

PRESS

A man confronts the shrinking of his world — somewhere between theatre, dance, and magic; between laughter and thrills.




Solo

Signature

Physical theater

Dance

Acrobatics

Magic

Confinement

Kafka

Chorographical and political drama

New-York

Mikhaïl Baryshnikov Art Center

Moscow

Seoul

Sydney Opera House

Soon celebrating 300 performances !

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ERECTION (THE STANDING MAN)

A man tries to move from a lying to a standing position. He slowly, melancholically, depicts the evolution of human-individual, of human-society or of the human-species.

Dance

Solo

Signature

retro-futuristic tale

Aurélien Bory

Magical and visual illusions

Holograms

Science fiction

Laban

Mikhaïl Baryshnikov

New-York

Montréal

Sydney Opera House

Bangkok

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BATAILLE

With a wink of an eye, the two guys are fighting to death. Then, a second wink and they're both laughing their heads off.

Go figure!




Physical theater

Duo

Houmour

Hassan Razak

Pierre Cartonnet

Georges Bataille

Poetical drama

Contemporary wrestling

All-terrain performance

Fighting ant stunts

True or false

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Artistic Direction: Pierre Rigal - Administration: Suzanne Maugein - Distribution: Nathalie Vautrin

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