Dans la solitude des champs de coton

Julien Derouault and Marie-Claude Pietragalla, former prima ballerina with the Paris Opéra and a leading figure on the choreographic scene, bring to life through dance all the poetry, urgency and vitality of Dans la solitude des champs de coton, a legendary play in contemporary theater.
After Aragon, Shakespeare, Musset and Ionesco, the two choreographers continue their exploration of the theatricality of movement through a hybrid language, between dance and theater, which is at the heart of Théâtre du Corps creations. One evening, in a strange, deserted street, a non-place removed from the logic of the daytime world, two people meet. Le Client and Le Dealer engage in a verbal joust of stunning beauty, a parade in which each gauges, brushes against and provokes the other, leading them to lay themselves bare. Pierre-Claver Belleka a.k.a. Dexter and Julien Derouault embody this ambiguous duo, never quite sure whether they're looking for violence or the intensity of desire. The text resonates in voice-over as they bring contemporary dance and krump into dialogue, like a stylized boxing match. As the rounds unfold, a profound and astonishing interplay of echoes is born between what we hear and what we see, as if the text called forth the gesture, as if the gesture inhabited the text, and gave shape to the unconscious, to the unspeakable of this so musical word.