Voir, toucher, s’aimer fort

Voir, toucher, s'aimer fort is a form of choreographic essay about meetings social non-standards.

Through this duet between the two dancers, Renaud Dallet wanted to experience a new possibility of meeting the other, new possibilities of being and relationships.

His choreographic research is based on his experiences in a psychiatric hospital. For several months as a patient, he observed other ways of seeing each other, of learning from each other and of coexisting. His extremely sensitive experiences could well be the beginnings of new ways of living together.

It is this form of the essay that leads Renaud Dallet to seek, through his artistic practice, ways of being in the world, with others, through encounter once again. Which leads him to think about the broadening of the form in the face of a diversity of encounters and the multiple possibilities for weaving a link, having an interaction sensitive to the other.

With Voir, toucher, s'aimer fort, the different modalities of the encounter remain to be defined regarding the reception of the other and the links that are woven in the struggle, the distrust, the solidarity, the love, the mimicry, the adaptation. In the heart of this meeting, the environment is transformed and tends to open up the representation space that we share.

The creative project is supported by the Fonds Régnier pour la Création / Mille Plateaux National Choreographic Center of La Rochelle / Ménagerie de Verre within the framework of StudioLab.

Read more about the show and the artists. 

The visit of Voir, toucher, s’aimer fort is realized with the financial support of the French Institute in Bulgaria.
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About Renaud Dallet

Born in France in 1991, Renaud Dallet trained in dance at a very young age at the La Rochelle Conservatoire, France.

In 2016, he obtained the Diploma of Choreographic Studies in contemporary dance at the Paris Conservatoire in parallel with his degree in philosophy at the University of Paris-Nanterre, before joining the Bachelor in dance of Cndc Angers that same year. During his higher studies, he was influenced by the work of Noé Soulier, Jonathan Capdevielle and François Chaignaud.

He performs pieces by Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer and Isadora Duncan. Renaud Dallet is also an intern with François Chaignaud for the piece Romance Inciertos, un autre Orlando and with Éric Minh Cuong Castaing for the piece Phoenix.

In 2018, Renaud continued his studies in a research master's degree in Arts and Languages under the direction of Elizabeth Claire in Cultural History of Dance at EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences).

His research topic focuses on the representation and expression of the damaged body in the context of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. He then developed his research within the choreographic master of Charleroi dance, Belgium.

In January 2020, he was a dancer-performer in the project Happening Tempête by Boris Charmatz for the closure of the Grand Palais, Paris, presented in January 2021 at the Festival d'Automne. Since March 2021, he has been a dancer and performer in Daniel Linehan's choreographic projects Listen Here: These Woods and Listen Here: This Cavern.

In October 2021, villa Noailles commissioned him 6 performances for the 36th International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessories.

In April 2024 Renaud created his first choreographic piece Voir, toucher, s'aimer fort, at the Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers - Scène nationale, France.