L’AGENDA DES TENTACULES (2024) by Nathalie Tacchella, Cie Estuaire

Concept: Nathalie Tacchella in collaboration with the artists | Movement creation and interpretation: Marion Baeriswyl, Fabio Bergamaschi, Aïcha El Fishawy, Ambre Pini (création) / Luisa Schöfer (en tournée),  Diane Senger | Scenography: Padrutt Tacchella | Musical composition: Adrien Kessler | Light creation: Florian Bach | technical director: Vahid Gholami | Costumes: Marion Schmid | Delegated production: Laure Chapel – Pâquis Production | Pictures: Isabelle Meister | Teaser: Nicolas Wagnières | Production: compagnie de l’estuaire | Support: Ville de Genève, la Loterie Romande, InterpretenStiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Action Intermittence – Fonds d’encouragement à l’emploi des personnes salariées intermittentes genevoises (FEEIG), a private foundation. Adrien Kessler received an SSA scholarship for stage music composition.

Around Was the Centre

This is an encounter with the unpredictable. An immersion into the unknown, as much within ourselves as beyond us. A choreographic piece born from the movements between will and intuition, mind and sensation, L’agenda des tentacules sets a series of joyful, playful and poetic appointments.

What is going to happen? Who knows. In any case, we must prepare for it. Not let apprehension take over. Above all, trust our intuition and our senses. Become one body with the others, as we unfurl a network of tentacles to better perceive what surrounds us. And finally, take the plunge, even when discouragement sets in and breaks the harmony of the movements.

Far from resigning themselves to the undulating landscape unfolding before their eyes, the dancers of the Estuary Company reshape its contours, carving out their own paths — singular, and sometimes absurd. Alliances are formed, evasions take place, games emerge. In counterpoint, music and light accompany this spellbinding ballet, confronting us with our anxieties, our doubts.

Something fragile yet essential takes shape, shedding light on what connects us to our surroundings and to chance. The agenda then becomes a fascinating record of our hesitations and our courage.