Creation The 12th of Avril 2011 at MC2:Grenoble (France)

Jean-Claude Gallotta’s last solo in Grenoble goes back to 1983. Its title was Hommage à Yves P. Since then, we have seen him soliloquising, singing and pirouetting, but always among his dancers, in des Gens qui dansent, Cher Ulysse and les Chroniques chorégraphiques, arranging, disturbing, cutting through the overall movements with his barely suggested skips and leaps.

With Faut qu’je danse !, Jean-Claude Gallotta remembers the birth of Daphnis é Chloé, the trio that he created in 1982, and that he now precedes on stage. He calls up his memories in a confused manner, the Avignon Festival, the world as it was in those days, the Première in Paris cancelled due to an injury to his dancer, Mathilde, and the critique by the writer Hervé Guibert, one of the finest pieces on contemporary dance, entitled “Buying back death with movement”.

As three young dancers take up Daphnis é Chloé in 2011, just before they come on stage, Jean-Claude Gallotta comes on in his turn to “buy back death with movement”; he comes on alone, empty-handed, stubborn as a child.

A solo in which the choreographer doesn’t hold back his memories or his breath; a solo like an act of unshakeable loyalty to life.

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