Threshold (creation 2025/2026) - Tumbleweed

After our first group piece A Very Eye (2022) and our interdisciplinary project Dehors est blanc (2023), we wish to return to a simpler and more direct form with Threshold. It’s about resuming physical work as a couple in the studio, and continuing to develop our language, body by body, by connecting our music and dance practices for the first time.

We imagine Threshold as a choreographic duo dispersed in time; two performers (Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz) will take turns on stage without ever meeting, like two separate phases of the same signal. What interests us in this eclipse process is the dividing line between the performers; a border that both separates and connects them. This process will unfold in sequences of irregular lengths which, in their alternation, will give the rhythm to the piece.

For the choreographic and sound material which will constitute these different sequences, and in relation to the idea of disappearance, we will do a research on saturation and, more particularly, in its consequences on the distinctive characteristics of the materials which are exposed there. Whether in the field of light, sound, or even cognitive sciences, saturation is this moment when a material reaches a maximum capacity, a threshold from which it will begin to degrade, sometimes to the point of disappearing. It is precisely this contrast between accentuation and disappearance that we will use to develop our materials, seeking to push them to rupture.

After The Gyre (2018), A Very Eye (2022) and Dehors est blanc (2023), Threshold is Tumbleweed’s fourth project. The premiere will take place in October 2025 at the Biennale de Charleroi danse. Contact us to know more.

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Threshold - a project by Tumbleweed (creation 2025/2026)

Creation and performance: Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz Sound design: Micaël Florentz Light and stage design: Arnaud Gerniers Costumes design: Catherine Somers Technical direction: Yorrick Detroy Sound: (in progress) Administration: Camille Collard Distribution and communication: Quentin Legrand - Rue Branly

Production: Tumbleweed Co-production (in progress): Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Les Tanneurs (BE), Le Triangle - Cité de la danse (FR) Residency partners (in progress): Charleroi danse, Les Tanneurs, Théâtre Varia, Grand Studio (BE), Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale (FR), Dampfzentrale Bern, Tanzhaus Zürich, Dansomètre, STAMM (CH), Lavanderia a Vapore, Villa Clea (IT) With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles - contrat de création 2024-2026