Mille Horizons * (working title)

[* Thousand Horizons]

By Jordi Galí

Creation 2026

Set piece for one dancer and one actor

For all audiences aged 12 and over (in progress)

Duration 50 minutes

Mille horizons is a choreographic creation for a dancer and a performer that weaves together the landscape and spaces of the outdoors with the world of theatre and its machinery, through gesture and words, and in particular through the kite. Flying this little sail – a child’s game and an adult’s pastime – is in itself an experience of intimacy with the world, a beginning of wonder. Through the body, the voice and the object, with a dance that opens up the stage and uses its machinery, this show aims to summon the vast landscapes of the outdoors, mountains and forests, streams and rivers, breezes, currents and tornadoes. Through movement and storytelling, Mille horizons aims to evoke an imaginary plunge into the immense atmosphere, into what surrounds us at every moment, like an immersion in the vast ocean.

« Mille horizons is a return to the stage after years away from it. It’s an attempt to conjure up an experience of the landscape in an interior space. To amplify its innermost resonances. The space inside, with its intimacy, acts like a microscope. It focuses the eye and the ear to better reveal what the movement of the body can express as a poetic relationship with the world »
_Jordi Galí

THOUSAND HORIZONS: A HYPOTHESIS …

Let’s make a hypothesis…

Let’s say that everything is already there, on the theatre stage
The spectators are coming in and sitting down
A small sail, taut and light, is suspended at the end of a line that holds it and gives it impetus
This link connects it to the dancer’s hand and whole body
It sways gently against the air
It presents us a dance of the heights, that of the bird soaring in the winds
Below, on the ground, we can make out the attentive silhouette of her operator
Threads, sails and a promise between a dancing body and subtle currents
The intermediary is a childlike object
Like a mirror, the kite offers us a multiple encounter: a return to the elements, a return to stardust, but also a call to marvel at the world that the child practices with obvious intensity and simplicity
Then comes the spoken word, summoning up the mountains and rivers, the expanses and the sky, as the lookout in the crow’s nest recounts her visions of the horizon

Let’s continue with the show…

What if, as we go along, the little kite sail turns into the sail of a ship?
If the line holding it in place becomes a windlass
And if then the theatre curtains also catch the wind
A deconstruction takes place that reorganises the stage into a raft and our pilot into a sailor on stage
Tried and tested gestures then precisely set up a hijacked machinery to set it in motion

And then…

And if finally, like a puppeteer in the shadows, our “sailor pilot” fades away, while the lookout glimpses new continents in the distance
And on this plateau that is part valley, part ocean, all that remains is a little suspension, a tiny piece of cloth to which the wind and the light still cling
Like a dot at the end of a text, it concludes the reverie.

End of the hypothesis…

Concept and performance: Jordi Galí

Outside eye: Vânia Vaneau

Set : Konrad Kaniuk

Performers (alternating): Estelle Clément-Bealem, Mathieu Besnier

Light : Sébastien Lefèvre

Sound : (ongoing)

Production: Arrangement Provisoire

Residencies and co-productions (ongoing) : ICI-CCN de Montpellier ; Les ateliers Frappaz, …