The concept is based on the atmosphere of a typical tango ballroom, where the dancers are expecting and waiting for a partner to dance with. 
All the tension, the glances, the expectations and desires that can exist between two people willing to join in dancing, are staged here in a unique and singular performance. 

Combining the slow-motion and gestural precision from the performance Chicago with the so particular art of tango, the two protagonists create an intimate space where everyone is looking for the other throughout the process of approaching... until the final embrace. 

It's a fleeting encounter, the passion inherent to the tango and the special atmosphere of Chicago.

Chicago meets Tango

The art of human sculpture is a real performance in itself, for which the artist is constantly searching for a subtle organic and body quality that approaches the mineral state, the raw matter. 

This intense embodiment generates a powerful and different presence, and gives a contradictory view of the body, apparently deprived of life but still human. 

Our sculptures are space installations made of various dimensions and visuals. 
They intend an invitation to a journey to the fascination of the living, by transcending our natural state.


Roma
Roma is one of the several possible visuals we offer. It looks like a sand stone roman/greek inspired style sculpture. Like most of our sculptures, it combines the art of stillness with extreme slow-motion which gives a living presence to the statue.

Roma

A work all in finesse, in the pure tradition of automatons and living dolls.

Elegance, realistic make-up, our Living Dolls can take on different costumes and adapt to your event.

They are perfect for welcoming the public or to create interactions on the move.

Living Dolls

Carved in the pure copper, sparkling costumes, the Cityzens stand motionless in the dusk.
All in them evokes the world of businessman. 

From the earliest movements, they transport us in a parallel space, beyond time, a world where the daily behavior becomes choreography. Their dialogue is more gestural and turns into the strange and the unexpected. 

Breaks punctuate tirelessly their slow movements, their exchanges stand in the urban space as a new  visual perspective on the city.

The ballet of everyday life becomes then a shifted spectacle of the reality .

Cityzens is usually performed on a fixed stage, but is also proposed as an urban installation which uses any heights, squares, stairs, public in/outdoor spaces, streets to transform the perception of the city.

Cityzens

The Sentinels are two figures, completely white from head to feet, reminiscent of a certain Eastern and martial aesthetics.
With their long white sticks, they carve the space of gestural and architectural calligraphies, in pure and simple lines. 

Sentinel is available in two different ways. A show of 20 minutes, within the guests, as an unusual and aesthetic appearance, or moving in a particular space, as a body and visual installation. 

Their cozy atmosphere will fascinate the spectator, then transported in his own imagination.

Sentinels

Walking down the streets, slowly; a restrained gesture, a contained caress, for a second, few minutes, a hug, a look, a step ...

A fleeting feeling of eternity ...

During their urban wanderings, the white silhouettes of Chicago mainly perform in improvisation, while all in silence and slowness.

The stories they create throughout their walk may reflect some moments of our daily life, simple things, human relationships, impulses, torments, every day actions.


But Chicago is more than just a walk-act. This is a permanent staging of the daily life, a zoom on the relational intrigues, duets and trios that form and transform into a physical theater and spectacular dance, that end up in an always unexpected outcome.

Of course, they are part of the urban landscape, the rhythm of the city, the single difference being that their white color and their slow pace catalyze all eyes.

Any public space, such as the terrace of a café, a bus shelter, a staircase, a bench, a shop, represents many unique opportunities to create interactive situations with the chap at the time, involving the spectator in their surreal world.


Questions, fun, fascination, the viewer is caught in the gear.

Fascinated by the silent spectacle of life, he stops, forgets any notion of time, absorbed by the white and peaceful dance he is looking at.

Chicago uses the subtle art of gesture where beauty, delicacy and precision of the movements create such a dramatic tension so the public is quickly affected.


During their choreographic wanderings, Chicago starts time to time some dance steps.

Constantly in slow-motion, they perform a passionate and intimate tango, with an awesome accuracy, producing a cozy and imposing presence.

As a shared secret with the public around, this is a unique and privileged moment, often filled with emotions.

Chicago

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The lights become blurred, a slight cloud of smoke floating above the brown earth, the body take place. Gradually, there emerges a choreography, first minimalist, and then the various rhythms and movements. 
Between dance, art of gesture and organic movements, the performers evolve through different incarnations and images, evoking multiple associations of ideas. 
in:Errance offers the spectator a choreography without a logic of history, but a space to experience the thirst for always wanting to understand what's happening on stage.

in:Errance

Urban Instant Dance Series (UIDS#)

No spectacle but a process. Those who watch will stay. 
It is not a must; still there is no escape...
Join the intimate insight into a fresh and modular concept for cities that is brought to life with dancers, performers and media artists, 
installing the human body in an urban public space. 
It’s a challenge – simultaneously dynamic and decelerated, artistic and mesmerizing. 
Sometimes there is a smile, a question mark...?

¿ Coincidence, accident, intent ?

is subtle, provocative, poetic, confusing: a reset of our perception of body, time and space.

concept: reset dance | connection
(Philippe Rives & Peter Müller)
processors: BK Compagnie & guests

UIDS

Like a work of a craftsmanship, the artistic number of Golden Twins is a body installation where the bodies merge and morph into various visuals in an eternal slow-motion.

With their long golden sticks, the Golden Twins also generate more architectural images, extending the lines and shapes of their bodies.

Smooth and shiny appearances with precise movements for a very impacting visual.

Golden Twins

With this duo, we slip into an amazing world where a mysterious white creature communicates with an electronic soundscape.

In Sentronics, two antagonistic worlds interact, coming together through their common abstraction and inspire each other throughout the performance: 
On the one hand, the electronic percussion that creates a field of beat fragments, rhythms and sounds.
On the other, an unusual appearance and aesthetics which includes his movements and gestures in this universe of sound.

They attract each other in an improvised structure.
In this performance the audience is not just a spectator but also a listener.

Sentronics

In its design and choreography, Evo represents the expression of the quest for simplicity.
Based on similar principles to the Butoh dance, the performance combines slow and precise movements in a strong and pure visual in order to reach the spectator into his imagination, his body, his soul.
Accompanied by a powerful surrounding sound, the body unfolds from an initial position evoking an egg embedded in the earth to stand up, facing the audience, in a calm and serene verticality.
Throughout this choreographic journey, the white dancer moves as a pure matter without unnecessary movement, mingling with the earth, the matrix element.

Evo is usually performed outdoor, but suites definitely well to any indoor or specific spaces. 

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