Pas de deux

Presence Pascal Gravat Poetic writing Julien Mages Music Pierce Warnecke Sound design Clive Jenkins Light in progress Collaborator in progress Administrator and production manager Anahide Ohannessian
Grand corps maniable
What can a dancer, Pascal Gravat, and an author, Julien Mages, say to each other when they meet? "Pas de deux" determines a junction point that is inevitable: time and what it does to us.
Getting older, they say. Grow old but do not let go of the child's hand. The one who dances, dreams, strives to make the world a little less predictable. One, Pascal Gravat, soon to be seventy years old, has made his body an instrument of precision in the service of his art. The other, Julien Mages, knows how to play words with style, drawing from an inhabited writing a remedy for the irremediable. Sometimes, they can headbutt the stars. This flexibility should not hide the first contractures, the first sagging of the body. Their need for consolation being what it is, the two artists have begun a "Pas de deux" which adds a new figure to the dance. Fiction slips into the interstices of a life in which the dancer's body, alone on stage, integrates the stigmata and restores the vicissitudes. Beyond their own affinities, what unites the two men is also the awareness that each moment must be remembered as if it were the last. This "choreography-biography" reminds us that artistic creation allows, if not to reach for the stars, at least to access a small piece of eternity.