"MASKED BALL"

Photo: Xavier Dumont

Choreography : Gigi Caciuleanu
Music : Manuel Wandji
Stage Director : Dan Mastacan
Costume Designer : Frédérique Petit

"My idea is to explore the limits of football (the positions, the atmosphere, tensions, sensations, ambitions) and the game areas - the stadium as theatrical stage.

"I have no wish simply to illustrate a sporting game, nor to create a pantomime heavy with anecdotes; my ambition with this creation is to concentrate on the choreography of certain fleeting images which startle the imagination - not by copying the image but more by creating a series of energetic moments, whether it be the dynamism of confrontation, the hunger to win no matter the price, the aesthetics of energetic effort, and to create this within the language of dance - in particular contemporary dance - with both its rules and its freedom of expression which brings it closer to the public and in particular the young." Gigi Caciuleanu

Danced by the whole company.
Length of dance : 1 hour 20 mins (without interval).