IN CREATION

Tout ce beau désordre is a concert you can dance to — or rather, a concert that dances.
The idea is to shape a living album, like a puzzle made up of eclectic pieces connected by poetic interludes.
Drawing inspiration from a range of popular traditions, we continue to invent our own language, built around weight, trajectories, rhythms, patterns traced through space, and the back-and-forth between individual flashes and collective formations. We discover new principles of play and juggling, and revisit our earlier discoveries to make them dance in new ways. In both music and choreography, we stray from the genres we love and recognise. We seek to get closer to these essential grooves, to feel them and make them felt, while sustaining a tension between what is alive and what is constructed. We want to see people carried along by music that moves, breathes and takes shape.

Tout ce beau désordre — a poetic definition of an anagram, perhaps?
In the end, no need to worry… everything will eventually fall into place — or rather, into the désordre.

THE PROJECT

Our show is an attempt, an unfinished collective dream whose dramaturgy is shaped by the way each individual sees the unfolding adventure they have become part of. Tout ce beau désordre reveals desire at work: a group driven by the hope of bringing wonder into being, a hope that animates each of its members.

Tout ce beau désordre is also a dance concert, performed by jugglers to original compositions by the jazz quartet Pulcinella, interspersed with poems written by Frédéric Forte.

With this piece, we are taking on new challenges: creating spectacular sequences that act as sensitive vignettes of our popular cultural heritage. Drawing on the living resources of dance and music, we seek to create new syntheses — transformed, hybridised and infused with the magic of objects, gravity and words. This dance concert is conceived as a contemporary journey through our cultural heritage, offering spectators the opportunity to recognise themselves in difference, to experience movement and collectivity through empathy, to search for and invent meaning, or simply to be surprised by the brilliance of the unexpected.

The structure draws on that of a rock concert, alternating musical pieces with spoken interludes in order to make the show as immediately accessible as possible. There is room for everyone: from newcomers discovering theatre for the first time to seasoned theatre-goers. Just as we each relate to the cultural landscape that surrounds us, we want spectators to experience a broad spectrum of emotions and sensations: from the immediate pleasure generated by the power of juggling, dance and music, to the fertile loss of familiar bearings in the face of a new imaginary world — with, along the way, the joy of recognising, connecting and deciphering references and the ways in which they are transformed.

During narrative interludes, the jugglers speak directly to the audience, drawing spectators into the desire that drives the show as it unfolds. The spoken texts and embodied words become opportunities for playful detachment and a space for reflection on the creative adventure itself. With mischief and irony, they invite spectators to experience how the real, everyday, hands-on work of a collective transforms an idea, a dream, into a tangible reality… “Please accept our apologies, but tonight’s show is not yet finished.”

The audience is directly addressed and invited to share in the collective thinking taking place in the present moment. Are these confessions or jokes? Does speech reveal reality or attempt to conceal it? What becomes of a dream when it is confronted with someone else’s dream? Can letting go of our illusions make hope even more powerful? How does the spoken word infuse the choreographic moment that follows with a particular sensibility?

Together, we will explore ideas of trial and error, of attempting, of commenting, and of the fragile thread that binds individual singularities within a shared process. We will celebrate success and experience failure, nurture shared hopes and come back down to earth — together, strengthened by the journey we have made.

CASTING

Written by: Julien Clément and Nicolas Mathis
Directed by: Nicolas Mathis
Featuring original music by: Pulcinella

Jugglers: Julien Clément, Rémi Darbois, Amélie Degrande, Baptiste Jeannequin, Juliette Hulot, Taichi Kotsuji, Carla Kühne, Emmanuel Ritoux
Musicians — Pulcinella: Bastien Andrieu, Ferdinand Doumerc, Pierre Pollet, JeanMarc Serpin

Lighting design: Arno Veyrat
Text: Frédéric Forte
Stage mishap consultant: Camille Boitel
Choreographic assistant: Violeta Todo-Gonzalez
Set construction: Olivier Filipucci
Costume design: Léonor Boyot Gellibert

Sound technician: Pierre-Jean Heude
Lighting technicians: Thibault Thelleire and François Dareys

Diffusion, administration and production (Collectif Petit Travers): Emilio Quief
Logistics coordination (Collectif Petit Travers): Audrey Paquereau
Technical coordination (Collectif Petit Travers): Thibault Thelleire
Production administration (Pulcinella): Oriane Ungerer
Diffusion and production (Pulcinella): Kellia Kenza

SUPPORT

To be Premièred in September 2027 
Production : Collectif Petit Travers, in coproduction with Compagnie Pulcinella
Co-production and artistic residence : Maison de la Danse, Pôle européen de création, Lyon ; Plateforme 2 Pôles Cirque I La Brèche à Cherbourg et Le Cirque Théâtre d’Elbeuf ; AGORA – Pôle national Cirque Boulazac – Nouvelle Aquitaine ; Equinoxe – Scène nationale de Châteauroux ; Le Théâtre de Saint Nazaire Scène nationale ; Espaces pluriels – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création danse, Pau ; Théâtre de Cusset – Ville de Cusset ; UTOPISTES – Cité internationale des Arts du Cirque ; l’astraea – Marciac (création musicale).
Supported by the city of Villeurbanne and the Occitanie Regional Council.
Other partnerships are in process.