Ciel

  • Outdoor

Duration : 30 minutes

solo

2010

The builder's gestures take their place in the public space and the landscape, between complexity and apparent simplicity

© Nadège Le Lezec

CIEL - Teaser

A primitive construction, an arrangement made of tree trunks and some 200 metres of rope, in which the performer's game unfolds towards the heights. This elementary installation can be seen in its assembly process, from the ground to its completion 10 metres above. A syntax made up of simple materials, it tells us the time of the necessary, precise and efficient gesture. It also expresses the time of the curious gaze, the gaze that accepts to follow the narrative of a building gesture, mastered in its quest for balance. It's a kind of fictional architecture that invites the viewer to suspend their gaze, to take a break from the daily grind, to create a poetic gap in the flow of our towns and countryside.

On tour

Past dates

La Comète

Saint-Étienne, France

Sardegna Teatro

Argentiera, Italy

Festival Coup de Chauffe - L'Avant-Scène

Cognac, France

Festival Constellations - Kubilai Khan Investigations

Toulon, France

Théâtre de la Ville

Paris, France

Festival Horizone - Les Décisifs

Colmier-le-Bas, France

Ravnedans

Kristiansand, Norway

Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-St-Denis

Paris, France

Festival International des Arts - FAB

Bordeaux, France

Lancement de saison - ICI-CCN

Montpellier, France

Ouverture de Saison - Scènes croisées de Lozère

Lozère, France

Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

Lille, France

Festival Tout l'monde dehors

Lyon, France

GR6 - CCN2

Grenoble, France

Format danse Ardèche

Aubenas, France

Programmation d'été au Fort - Mairie

Feyzin, France

White Summer Festival

Pals, Spain

Festival de l’Arpenteur - Scènes Obliques

Les Adrets, France

Festival Danse en Mai - L'empreinte Scène nationale

Brive-Tulle, France

Festival Singulart

San Just Desvern, Spain

Format Danse Ardèche + Muséal

Alba la Romaine, France

Potsdamer Tanztage - Fabrik Potsdam

Potsdam, Germany

Le Magasin / Centre D'Art Contemporain

Grenoble, France

Festival Ulicznicy

Gliwice, Poland

Festival Reuring

Purmerend, Pays-Bas

Plastique danse flore

Versailles, France

IETM spring meeting

Montpellier, France

Théâtre de Brétigny

Brétigny-sur-Orge, France

Les Scènes Rurales - Act’art 77

La Chapelle-Gauthier, France

Festival de Grands Chemins

Ax-les-Thermes, France

Domaine de Chamarande

Chamarande, France

Festival Festus

Torelló, Spain

Festival La Strada

Bremen, Germany

L’Amphithéâtre du Pont de Claix

Pont-de-Claix, France

Festival Antigel

Geneva, Swiss

Théâtre de Brétigny

Brétigny-sur-Orge, France

FAST festival internazionale della creazione contemporanea - Up to You

Terni, Italy

Les Escales Improbables

Montreal, Canada

Musicalarue

Luxey, France

Les Z'estivales

Le Havre, France

Contre courant - CCAS EDF

Avignon, France

Séquences buissonnières - Domaine d’Harcourt

Harcourt, France

Parcours tout court - Domaine de Kerguéhennec

Rennes, France

Fête de Cenon

Bordeaux, France

Festival Neo - Mercat de les Flors

Barcelona, Spain

Teatre Principal d’Olot

Olot, Spain

Théâtre Bourgoin-Jallieu

Bourgoin-Jailleu, France

Festival Excentrique

Beaulieu-lès-Loches, France

Fira Tarrega

Tàrrega, Spain

Festival de Chassepierre

Chassepierre, Belgium

Cirk Aalst!

Aalst, Belgium

Fest’Arts

Libourne, France

Festival Les Tombées de la nuit

Rennes, France

Fest Nat - Château de Blandy-les-Tours

Blandy-les-Tours, France

Pronomade(s) CNAREP

Encausse-les-Thermes, France

Festival Paris l’Eté

Paris, France

Festival Les Invites - Ateliers Frappaz CNAREP

Villeurbanne, France

Festival Dehors Dedans - Château Rouge

Annemasse, France

Polyculture

Fourneaux, France

Fira de Circ Trapezi

Reus, Spain

Festival Hautes Tensions - La Villette

Paris, France

Charleroi Danse

Brussels, Belgium

Festival Veo

Valence, Spain

Festival Dansez - Château Rouge

Annemasse, France

Premiere

Le Toboggan

Décines, France

Festival Chalon dans la Rue - L'Abattoir CNAREP

Chalon-sur-Saône, France

CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape

Rillieux-la-Pape, France

L’Animal a l’Esquena

Girona, Spain

Residence

Team

Created and Performed by Jordi Galí

Production

Production Arrangement Provisoire ; extrapole

Coproductions CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape/Cie. Maguy Marin (Lyon, FR) ; Ramdam (Lyon, FR) ; L’Animal à L’Esquena (ES) ; Nau Côclea (ES)

Press

This Catalan artist (...) is a builder of the ephemeral. Throughout the half-hour of Ciel, with a few tree trunks and a set of ropes, he erects a sort of pyramid hut, at the top of which he hoists a final vertical mast by means of a pulley effect. An absolutely useless construction, but beautiful to see assembled, and one that we regret the next day that it has disappeared from the landscape.

Mouvement.net

Jean Marc Adolphe

2015

Somewhere between a hut and a cabin, a canvas and a hammock, this construction is the stuff of dreams and recalls all the mythologies of the nest and the shelter.

Télérama

Rosita Boisseau

2013

An Eiffel Tower? No. A giant tepee? No. The questions came thick and fast (...). Ropes that could be unrolled ad infinitum, tree trunks that were both flexible and resistant, and a great deal of poetry invaded the Berjallian space. The show ‘Ciel’ unfolded before the eyes of the large audience, who were amazed, intrigued, passionate and moved by the quiet strength of Jordi Galí, an unclassifiable choreographic UFO.

Le Dauphiné Libéré

2011

More than an exercise in construction, Ciel is a veritable ballet, provoked by the graceful movements of the Spanish artist. The interest of the show lies in the mastery of the materials and the way they are set in motion. The pieces of wood fly up to the sky thanks to a system of tension and counterweights. In front of this spectacle, calm reigns. Spectators young and old are fascinated by the elevation of this primitive tripod. Once the performance is over, the work moves with the wind in poetic oscillations.

Ouest-France

Anne-Laure Le Jean et Guillaume Huault Dupuy

2011

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