CLIMAX
Creation 2006

Length: 40'
Concept and choreography:
Laurence Yadi, Nicolas Cantillon
Lighting design: Jean-Philippe Roy

Interpretation: Nicolas Cantillon
Set construction: Sylvia Faleni assisted by Cédric Bach and Maria Galvez
Production assistant: Baptiste Lefebvre


Production: Compagnie 7273 (CH – F)
Coproductions: Culturgest Lisbonne (Portugal), O Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal)
With support from: Pro Helvetia, Ville de Genève, l’Etat de Genève, Loterie Romande, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles de la région Rhône Alpes, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Conseil Général de la Haute-Savoie.
The Compagnie 7273 has benefited from a partnership  with Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art.The piece earned the Compagnie the Lietchi Foundation Award for the Arts.
Places of creation: ADC Genève (CH), Flux Laboratory Carouge (CH), Arsenic Lausanne (CH), O Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo (P)


Statement of intent

Climax : n. (greek : klimax, scale) Final term of the natural evolution of a vegetable formation. (Larousse)
A character dances on stage. The dance is like a natural secretion, organic and elaborated at the same time. The company breaks here with its deconstructed manner and seems to have decided to produce an identifiable dance, reassuring and predictable...


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