I have dreamed of being a football artist

Back in time, it crosses sports and choreographic beautiful way feat. In 1924, "Le Train blue", created by Bronislava Nijinska for the Ballets russes of Serge Diaghilev, was directed by the champions. On an argument of Jean Cocteau, and costumes for Coco Chanel, golfers, tennismen and bathers are in gave heart joie in dances who married the sports gesture outdoor... as the love banter. This ballet is still in the Repertoire of the Opéra de Paris. The whimsical Régine Chopinot osa a ballet of boxing, "K.O.K.", where interpreters, on a giant ring, diverted the figure style, between torturer fists available and highly choreographed footwork. Closer to us, Philippe Decouflé mixed definitively the genera with the opening ceremony of the Olympics of Albertville Games in 1992, his frenzied skaters and its flying skiers. Usa also of elastic to give another image of weightlessness.

The story does not stop there. Daniel Larrieu, choreographer revealed in the 1980s, has opted him for the world of pool: created in 1986, resumed twenty years after, his "Waterproof" interested less in competition under water to the choreography. "We ourselves in a pool where it is away from swimming to move towards a more relational practice of water, with the weight, made release, apnea of the body." Three months of aquatic workshops will give a strange ballet where the movements of the dancers seem to float on the surface when they do are not "mangled" by the lapping. With some interpreters-swimmers of the era and other younger dancers, Daniel Larrieu reinstalls today sound and light in the basin, giving an almost poetic dimension to his "Waterproof". Everything is permanently away from the world records of Laure Manaudou and the holydays in water of Hollywood...

Medal or star

There are also the reverse movement: when the athlete aspiring turns cassocks and discovers the world of dance. Sylvie Guillem was a carrier gymnast to medal hopes before becoming a star in the classic. Pierre Rigal was him, a specialist in the 400 m hurdles: today is dancer and choreographer. With his solo "erection", put in scene by Aurélien Bory, he spent the position folded to stand, as at the start of a race. Assisted by video projections, Rigal appears to leverage his body in space. The sport, he returned with his new project, the aptly named "judgments of game", which is a personal adaptation of a football match. The attitude on the ground as much as sports movement will be the basis of this trio in a design field and the Forum. Exceeding the single foot, Pierre Rigal means tapping into the poses of rugby and athletics field to play on stage.

Influenced them by sports iconography, the Association Jean Woo - Emmanuel Belot and Ennio Sammarco, former dancers of Maguy Marin, will try to get to the theatre sports and entertainment reports. Title of the adventure: "every adidas has a story!" Stronger still, the Italian Massimo Furlan is investing almost alone, the Parc des Princes, no less, with his performance "number 10". The idea is to "replay" the last semi-final of the World Cup France-Germany, mythical match lost by Michel Platini and his teammates in 1982. Only accompanied by Didier Roustan sports presenter in the forums, Furlan will therefore be and wet the Jersey. But wait not of him that he interprets 2 teams, or 22 players, 3 arbitrators, and the crowd of supporters. "I have dreamed of being a football artist." "I will never be because I have today the age of retirement of footballers (37 years)", he said. It will be rather in evocation and emotion. Massimo Furlan, artist-performer, will finally, be the space of one evening, the largest number 10 of the world.