Creation 2019
by Jordi Galí
BABEL is a participative device that invite people to share a whole process during 3 days :
manufacture of the units of the tower, handling of the tower to understand its dimensions and weight, develop nonverbal communication and coordination as a group, learning and rehearsal of the performance according to a simple and precise score.
BABEL is also a 12m high tower, made of wood and riggings, assembled and handled by 25 people under the eye of the public. From the rising up to the descent, through its soft rocking, the tower reveals the group of people on the ground, linked presences, focused and connected who work together.
Thanks to the coordination of wills and efforts, the excessiveness of the project and its utopian dimension become a reality; a technical challenge made possible because every person takes part in the community and becomes responsible of it. BABEL are individuals in action, with their bodies, backgrounds and desires, a deliberately ephemeral reality that only exists the time people are gathered to activate it.
Workshops ends with the performance in the public space.
The research process of BABEL consisted of 8 workshops, gathering a hundred of people. A photo gallery recounts workshops and performances.
Conception Jordi Galí
With the collaboration of Katia Mozet
Created with the hundred of people who joined the workshops, Arrangement Provisoire’s team :
Anne Sophie Gabert, Lea Helmstädter, Konrad Kaniuk, Jérémy Paon, Jeanne Vallauri, Julia Moncla, Julien Quartier
Collaborators Balyam Ballabeni, Vincent Laisney
With (3 performers in rotation) Jordi Galí, Katia Mozet, Anne Sophie Gabert, Lea Helmstädter, Konrad Kaniuk, Jérémy Paon, Jeanne Vallauri, Julia Moncla, Julien Quartier
Duration about 50 minutes
Performance 25 people
Production Arrangement Provisoire
Coproduction Le Pacifique / CDCN Grenoble-Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (FR) ; La Briqueterie / CDCN du Val-de-Marne (FR) ; Les Ateliers Frappaz / CNAREP Villeurbanne (FR) ; L’Abattoir / CNAREP de Chalon-sur-Saône (FR) ; Format Danse Ardèche (FR)
Support by Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Partners Lycée professionnel Georges Lamarque de Rillieux-la-Pape (FR) ; La Briqueterie / CDCN du Val-de-Marne – EU project Migrant Bodies-Moving Borders (FR) ; Le Pacifique / CDCN Grenoble – Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (FR) ; Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration (Paris, FR) ; Format Danse – Ardèche (FR) ; ESAD Grenoble (FR)