Faire fleurir

An evening to follow Nicolas Fayol on a choreographic and immersive journey at the heart of a unique audiovisual installation.

In Faire fleurir, the first part of the evening, Nicolas Fayol moves within a deliberately confined space: a fabric ceiling suspended 1.5 meters above the ground, forcing him to remain bent. Between sky and underground, he gradually brings forth a body and its story. Discovered in hip-hop battles in the early 2000’s, Nicolas Fayol, here, abandons verticality to invent other forms: animal, child, stone – in motion. Alongside him, the french duo Mont Analogue compose telluric, organic music.

In the second part of the evening, the audience is invited to lie down within the installation – a dreaming machine designed to transport them into the time of myth, metamorphosis, and primordial effervesence.

“In Faire fleurir, the young dancer invents the dance of an alternative evolution of man — one that would have stopped at all fours. A choreography that is both prehistoric and post-apocalyptic.” Libération – Ève Beauvallet

“In Faire Fleurir, there is this desire to use the technicality of breakdancing to invent a body, a body stripped of its verticality, to explore the definition of the condition of a man standing, a man sitting, a man lying down.” Nicolas Fayol