The Gyre (2018) - Tumbleweed
All matter is vibration and subject to change. An endless amount of possible forms arise and collapse from this incessant flux, conducted by an urgent need to exist and transmit.
The Gyre is a duet evolving from one basic action: walking. Gravitating around one shared central point, walking accelerates into a whirling, fathoming the mechanics of a relationship. Persistence and steady transformation unfold into a rigorous, yet fragile complementary score. Fugacious shapes emerge along the orbiting trajectory and coalesce with the subtle design of light and sound. In every instant of a turn, the two performers drift in and out of another, the distinct lines and contours of the bodies blur delicately into one.
Evolving along a continuous and permanent flow of motion, The Gyre is gradually dragging the spectator into a slight state of hypnosis. The choreography keeps on turning incessantly around a defined center, like orbiting planets, and generates various points of optical perspectives. Time, only present in the rhythmical score of their feet, is slowly vanishing in the same curve of oscillation as the bodies are caught in, and surrenders to the continuity.
Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz created The Gyre in Winterthur on November 18th, 2018.
The Gyre won the Distribution Award at La Grande Scène 2018 (Arles) with support from the French network Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes during the season 2019/20, and the Partner Award 2019 from the International Duet Competition RIDCC in Rotterdam, with support from Dansateliers Rotterdam.
In October 2022, Tumbleweed premiered with A Very Eye (piece for 6 performers) in Brussels. In June 2023, they created Dehors est blanc (piece for 3 performers). Tumbleweed’s fourth project - Threshold - will premiere in 2025/2026.
Website: www.cietumbleweed.com
The Gyre :
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
12.09.2024 | The Gyre (in situ), Pôle-Sud CDCN, Strasbourg (FR)
13.09.2024 | The Gyre (in situ), Pôle-Sud CDCN, Strasbourg (FR)
14.09.2024 | The Gyre (in situ), Fête de Saint-Denis, Paris (FR)
12.11.2024 | The Gyre (long version), L’Etincelle, Rouen (FR) - in option
04.04.2025 | The Gyre (long version), Bloom Festival / La Place de la Danse CDCN, Tournefeuille (FR)
PREVIOUS TOUR DATES
25.01.2018 | Theater Phönix in Steckborn (CH) - short version / try-out
30.03.2018 | Festival Brussels, Dance!, Garage29, Brussels (BE) - Pre-Premiere
31.03.2018 | Festival Brussels, Dance!, Garage29, Brussels (BE) - Pre-Premiere
10.07.2018 | Festival Ravnedans, Kristiansand (NO) - short version
11.07.2018 | Festival Ravnedans, Kristiansand (NO) - short version
17.07.2018 | Dancefest Akropoditi, Syros (GR) - short version
03.09.2018 | Festival in Tehran (IR) - short version
23.09.2018 | Tanz Metropole Tanz, Heidelberg (DE) - short version
29 - 30.09.2018 | Fêtes Romanes, Wolubilis, Brussels (BE) - short version
06.10 - 17.11.2018 | Tanzplan Ost Festival : Gasometer Triesen (LI) / St.Gallen (CH) / Theater Chur (CH ) / Tanzhaus Zürich (CH) / Theater Phönix Steckborn (CH) / Appenzell (CH) - short version
18.11.2018 | Tanzfestival in Winterthur (CH) - long version - Premiere
28.11.2018 | La Grande Scène - Théâtre d’Arles (FR) - short version
30.01 - 03.02.2019 | Les Chorégraphiques, Dansomètre / Oriental-Vevey (CH)
13.03.2019 | Festival On Marche, Marrakech (MCO)
04.04.2019 | Festival Les Incandescences, Le Regard du Cygne, Paris (FR)
05.04.2019 | Festival Les Incandescences, Le Regard du Cygne, Paris (FR)
27.04.2019 | Performa Festival, Bellinzona (CH)
12.05.2019 | Tout Mons Danse, Mons - Arts de la Scène (BE) - in situ
15.06.2019 | Label Danse, CCN Roubaix (FR)
21.06.2019 | Fête de la musique, ADC-Genève (CH) - short version
22.06.2019 | Fête de la musique, ADC-Genève (CH) - short version
27 - 28 - 29.06.2019 | Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition, Rotterdam (NL) - short version
17.08.2019 | Festival Chassepierre, Florenville (BE) - in situ
18.08.2019 | Festival Chassepierre, Florenville (BE) - in situ
25.08.2019 | IDEA Dance Festival, Amman (JOR)
01.10.2019 | Carreau du Temple, Paris (FR) - long version
18.10.2019 | Objectifs Danse, La Raffinerie, Brussels (BE) - long version
19.10.2019 | L’échangeur, Château-Thiry (FR) - short version
23.11.2019 | Théâtre Nono, Marseille (FR) - short version
05.12.2019 | La Manufacture CDCN, Bordeaux (FR) - long version
20.12.2019 | Alchemic Body - The Line Contemporary Art Space, London (UK) - short version
06.02.2020 | Festival Waterproof, Le Triangle, Rennes (FR) - long version
03.03.2020 | Dansfabrik, Le Quartz, Brest (FR) - long version
04.03.2020 | Dansfabrik, Le Quartz, Brest (FR) - long version
19 - 20 - 21.03.2020 | In Movement, Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE) - (postponed)
25.03.2020 | Le Grand Bain, Gymnase, Roubaix (FR) - (cancelled)
03 - 04 - 05.04.2020 | Festival (Dés)illusions, Le Monfort, Paris (FR) - (cancelled)
25.04.2020 | Festival STIL, de Warande, Turnhout (BE) - (cancelled)
15.05.2020 | Danse de tous les Sens, Falaise (FR) - (postponed)
15 - 16.08.2020 | Festival Castrum, Yverdon-les-Bains (CH) - (postponed)
28.08.2020 | de Warande, Turnhout (BE) - long version
17.10.2020 | Dans in het bos, Brussels (BE) - in situ
18.10.2020 | Dans in het bos, Brussels (BE) - in situ
26 - 27 - 28.11.2020 | Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE) - (postponed)
24.03.2021 | CCN Tours (FR) - (postponed)
09.04.2021 | TanzBiennale Heidelberg, Heidelberg (DE) - (postponed)
22 - 23 - 24.04.2021 | Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE) - (postponed)
19.05.2021 | Festival Danse de tous les Sens, Falaise (FR) - short version
28.05.2021 | TanzBiennale Heidelberg, Heidelberg (DE) - cancelled
30.06.2021 | The Gyre (short version), Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Heidelberg Hebel Halle, Heidelberg (DE)
03.07.2021 | The Gyre (in situ), Charleroi danse au vert, Abbaye d’Aulne, Thuin (BE)
12.08.2021 | The Gyre (long version), Festival Castrum, Théâtre Benno Besson, Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
13.08.2021 | The Gyre (long version), Festival Castrum, Théâtre Benno Besson, Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
14.08.2021 | The Gyre (in situ), Festival Castrum, Yverdon-les-Bains (CH)
17.09.2021 | The Gyre (long version), CCN Tours (FR)
16.10.2021 | The Gyre (in situ), Danse avec les foules, Bruxelles (BE)
03.11.2021 | The Gyre (long version), SiDance, Daehakro Arts Theater, Seoul (KOR) - cancelled
19.11.2021 | The Gyre (extract), PODIUM, La Rampe, Echirolles (FR)
27.01.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Pays de Danses, Centre culturel d’Engis (BE)
21.04.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE)
22.04.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE)
23.04.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE)
04.05.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (FR)
05.05.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (FR)
06.05.2022 | The Gyre (long version), Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (FR)
08.06.2022 | The Gyre (in situ), Festival PERSPECTIVES, Saarbrücken (DE)
09.06.2022 | The Gyre (in situ), Festival PERSPECTIVES, Saarbrücken (DE)
27.08.2022 | The Gyre (in situ), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Genève (CH)
28.08.2022 | The Gyre (in situ), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, Genève (CH)
15.02.2023 | The Gyre (long version), Les Hivernales - CDCN d'Avignon, Théâtre des Doms, Avignon (FR)
18.06.2023 | The Gyre (in situ), Extension Sauvage, Combourg (FR)
11.10.2023 | The Gyre (long version), Châteauvallon scène nationale, Ollioules (FR)
12.10.2023 | The Gyre (long version), Châteauvallon scène nationale, Ollioules (FR)
13.10.2023 | The Gyre (long version), Châteauvallon scène nationale, Ollioules (FR)
14.10.2023 | The Gyre (long version), Châteauvallon scène nationale, Ollioules (FR)
19.06.2024 | The Gyre (in situ), Festival Buffalo, MACRO, Roma (IT) - Première in Italy
09.08.2024 | The Gyre (in situ), Festival Danseu, Les Piles (ES) - Première in Spain
10.08.2024 | The Gyre (in situ), Festival Danseu, Les Piles (ES)
The Gyre - A creation by Tumbleweed (24’ / 40’, 2018)
Concept and performance: Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz Light design: Arnaud Gerniers and Benjamin van Thiel Music (original composition): Daniel Perez Hajdu External eye: Dagmar Dachauer
Production: Tumbleweed Coproduction: Dansomètre / Oriental-Vevey (CH), Garage29 (BE), Wolubilis (BE) Residencies / supports: Charleroi Danse (BE), De Warande (BE), Destelheide (BE), Carthago (BE), Dance Atelier Reykjavik (IS), MMF Slaturhusid (IS), The Freezer (IS), Dampfzentrale Bern (CH), Lo Studio (CH), CCN Roubaix (FR) With the support of Fédération Wallonie – Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, in coproduction with Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes and the help of ADAMI / SACD
photo © Flurin Bertschinger, Quentin Legrand
Forty minutes of hypnotic beauty. (…)
Neither monotonous nor linear, the choreography and sound creation take us, together, into a sensation of vertigo. (…)
The Gyre is a thousand miles from a display of muscles or force; it is an intuition rather than a declaration, of great finesse of gesture and performance.
— Marie Godfrin-Guidicelli, Ouvertauxpublics.fr, 18.1.2023
[Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz] deliver an incredible performance with rare precision. (...) The choreographic duo is magnified by beautiful lights, a march in unison for an infinite journey in life.
— Paula Gomes, Theatreactu.com, 17.02.2023
A fascinating pas de deux whose exhilaration is renewed until the end.
— Rosita Boisseau, 06.05.2022
During the first years that followed our meeting, we had the chance to travel a lot. In particular, we went to Iceland to explore the wild landscapes and unmarked paths. It is from this journey that most of the foundations of The Gyre come: the transience of forms, the continuous transformation of landscapes, the interdependence in walking.
— Tumbleweed in conversation with Wilson Le Personnic, Ma Culture, 20.09.2021
Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz [ ] perform a tireless rotation with two bodies, very close to each other and (seemingly) stretched towards infinity: a haunting and obsessive mute incantation, in chiaroscuro, whose oscillations are very well highlighted by light and music.
— Jérôme Provençal, Les Inrockuptibles, 10.03.2020
Variation around the action of walking, this piece moves you by the excellence of the dancers caught in an almost continuous movement. [ ] First creation of Tumbleweed company - name given in the United States to these flying bushes - this choreography all of gravitation will not leave anyone indifferent.
— Philippe Noisette, Sceneweb.fr, 06.03.2020
Going beyond the simple frame of choreography, the highly structured and very precise grammar of the duo invites you to dream, to get out of the frame and dive into your thoughts. A few variations in their gestures awaken our curiosities, before sinking again into another dimension of this inner self.
— Olivier Frégaville, L’Oeil d’Olivier, 05.03.2020
A masterpiece, worth the first Keersmaeker pieces, both in its radicality and rigor and in the mastery of its execution. The two dancers, on a music reminiscent of Steve Reich's Drumming, draw, in a quasi-perpetual movement, each his own circle, imbricated in that of the other. Micaël Florentz and Angela Rabaglio gently orchestrate a meditative and intoxicating trance set like music paper, a journey that tells us about the couple, how to be one when we are two, always in unison, it is at the same time minimalist, of a dangerous beauty so much one looks for the misstep (which will never come), and a saving optimism as for the romantic relation.
— Thomas Adam-Garnung in Ballroom, 05.03.2019
One is bound by the consequence of simplicity and almost automatically begin to adapt one's own breathing to the rhythm of the dance. Hands touch hands, touch shoulders, touch heads, and finally draw circles so large that the entire movement seems like a never-ending succession of court bends, which in turn brings wits into the game. The feeling of happiness in the stomach and the smile on the face overcome one automatically.
— PS Zeitung, Zurich, 16.11.2018
The Gyre (in situ) :
