Tumulus

t u m u l u s  is a boundless procession of thirteen dancing and singing bodies within the same practice, and as part of the same gesture. Resulting from a collaboration between François Chaignaud and Geoffrey Jourdain, director of Cris de Paris, this project aims to combine these two arts and to think of dance and music together. Tumuli were once graves underneath a hill. A peculiar type of burial, these “pieces” house as many bodies of the dead as the afterlife that pushes through them. The research that leads this project resides at the heart of this paradox: a dead always contains life. In the middle of the set, a mound takes over the space. It is covered in greenery; it is, simultaneously, a mausoleum and a landscape. It is a volume onto which the dancers-singers and the singers-dancers climb, hide, and flow.

Source: Mandorle productions