Corps extrêmes

“Corps extrêmes is a meditation on risk, vertigo and fear. The show draws a graphic and chiselled picture where the fragility of the body, one’s own and that of each co-performer, is never forgotten even at the height of physical prowess.” – Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde

“What made the experience even more luminous was the way they landed or ascended into the air, making it almost seem as though the stage was really a cloud.” – The New York Times

Choreographer Rachid Ouramdane comes to Esplanade for the first time with his widely acclaimed full-evening creation, Corps extrêmes.

In this piece of immense scale and vision, breathtaking levels of acrobatic and athletic virtuosity gently give way to a luminous sensitivity and humbling vulnerability as ten performers meet between earth and sky. Created with two extreme sports athletes—the French highline world record holder Nathan Paulin, and Swiss climbing champion Nina Caprez—alongside eight acrobats, Ouramdane’s electrifying yet meditative choreography sees these unlikely collaborators flirting with gravity, traversing a magnificent climbing wall built on stage and testing the limits of the body. Somewhere between documentary and dream, simultaneously intimate and larger than life, Corps extrêmes sheds new light on what it means to stand on the edge of a precipice, literally and figuratively.

Named one of the Best Dance Performances of 2023 by The New York Times, this striking work now arrives in Singapore after captivating audiences worldwide.

This production is presented as part of da:ns focus – Out of Site, a weekend of programmes that invites you to the terrain where extreme sports and dance meet.

Production Credits
Conception: Rachid Ouramdane
Music: Jean-Baptiste Julien
Video: Jean-Camille Goimard
Lighting: Stéphane Graillot
Costume: Camille Panin
Performed by: Joël Azou, Camille Doumas (climber), Tamila De Naeyer, Lisandra Gallo, Daniel Laruelle (highliner), Nicolò Marzoli, Xavier Mermod, Patricia Minder, Valérian Moutier, Maxime Seghers

with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Co-production:
CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble
Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy
Théâtre de la Ville – Paris
Festival Montpellier Danse 2021
L’Estive – Scène nationale de Foix et de l’Ariège
Le Bateau Feu – Scène nationale de Dunkerque
Le Carreau – Scène nationale de Forbach
MC2: Grenoble
Théâtre Molière – Sète, Scène nationale Archipel de Thau
Le Théâtre Scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire

With thanks to Patricia Minder, Xavier Mermod, Guillaume Broust, Romain Cocheril

With the technical support of Espace Vertical and Music Plus Grenoble

With the support of MC93 – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Deni