WHAT WE TALK ABOUT (...) ou comment je suis devenu danseur

What we talk about when we talk about skateboarding is a solo for two bodies, that of Benoit Canteteau as a teenager and his own today. A back-and-forth between the body of the teenage skateboarder and the body of the adult dancer.

First a self-taught skateboarder, Benoit Canteteau then trained as a circus performer, and is now developing a body of work as a choreographer and dancer in which his body plays as much with his own physicality as with that of the objects around him, in a relationship of balance and instability, of falling and exhaustion. In this new creation, he strings together figures on his skateboard to reveal the traces this practice has generated in his dance. He unfolds stories, some personal, others about his generation and the practice of skateboarding. For the artist, the path of learning to skateboard is also the path of building himself and becoming a dancer. In life, as in the skatepark, this quote from Samuel Beckett accompanies him: "Try again. Fail again. Fail better".