Threshold (creation 2025) - 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 on October 8 & 9, 2025 at the Biennale de Charleroi danse. Contact us to know more.
Website : www.cietumbleweed.com
UPCOMING TOUR DATES
08.10.2025 | Biennale de Charleroi danse, Les Ecuries - Charleroi danse, Charleroi (BE) - PREMIERE
09.10.2025 | Biennale de Charleroi danse, Les Ecuries - Charleroi danse, Charleroi (BE)
January 2026 | Festival Waterproof, Le Triangle, Rennes (FR) - in option
14.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)
15.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)
16.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)
17.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)
18.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)
Threshold - a project by Tumbleweed (creation 2025)
Creation & Performance: Angela Rabaglio, Micaël Florentz
Sound Design: Micaël Florentz, Daniel Bleikolm
Light & Stage Design: Arnaud Gerniers
Costumes Design: Catherine Somers
Technical Direction: Yorrick Detroy
Sound: Daniel Bleikolm
Artistic advice: Marion Sage, Garance Maillot
Administration: Camille Collard
Distribution & Communication: Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly)
Production: Tumbleweed
Coproduction: Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Les Tanneurs (BE), Le Triangle - Cité de la danse, Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale (FR)
Residency Partners: Charleroi danse, Grand Studio, Théâtre Varia, Studio Thor (BE), Villa Cléa, Lavanderia a Vapore (IT), Tanzhaus Zuerich, Dansomètre, Dampfzentrale Bern, STAMM (CH), Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale (FR)
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Photo (rehearsals): Andrea Macchia, Micaël Florentz