P=mg


Work 2013
Solo piece

17 minutes

P=mg is the physical formula for weight, the force of gravity exerted by the Earth on a massive body due solely to the proximity of the Earth. This force is omnipresent, it applies to each particle of the body and constantly pulls us down, while by habituation this consciousness escapes us.

Alongside this inevitable physical dimension, I wanted to highlight a psychological dimension that is just as universal, this often unconscious weight that diverts us from our objectives or hinders our progress. This can come from others as well as from oneself, through fear, belief or preconceived ideas… I think that if the family environment in which I grew up had not been so opposed to my desire to dance, I might never have made it my profession.

On a stage with no set elements, P=mg is an experiment, a situation in which gravity is increased tenfold in order to imagine the different stages that a body would go through to adapt and overcome such a situation. How this constraint can, on the contrary, become a force and be used as a stepping stone to aim even further, higher, and finally allow the body to reach the state where, without this difficulty to overcome, it might never have reached.

Jann Gallois

 


 

Choreographed and performed by Jann Gallois
Sound design Jean-Charles Zambo
Light design Cyril Mulon
Costume Marie-Cécile Viault

Production Cie BurnOut
Coproduction IADU (Initiatives d’Artistes en Danses Urbaines, Fondation de France / La Villette, avec le soutien de la Caisse des Dépôts et de l’Acsé)
Residencies Theatre de Suresnes Jean Vilar • Micadanse / Paris

 



Awards

2015

  • Nammed « Bearer of Hope of the year » by the german newspaper Tanz – Germany
  • 1rst Prize Solo Dance Contest of Gdansk – Poland
  • Audience Prize Hiverôclites CDC Les Hivernales in Avignon – France

2014

  • 1st Prize Machol Shalem Danse House in Jerusalem – Israel
  • Audience Prize Masdanza in Gran Canaria – Spain
  • Aerowaves Priority Companies in London – UK
  • Choreographic Prize & Audience Prize at the International Solo-Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart –  Germany

2013

  • Paris Young Talent Prize – France
  • Beaumarchais-SACD Prize – France

 

 

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  • 2 October 2019
    Sverdlovsk Theater
    Ekaterinbourg
  • 30 September 2019
    Tatar TIOUZ Theater
    Karzan
  • 31 March 2019
    Tanzmainz Festival
    Mainz
  • 15 March 2019
    Le Cargo
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  • 25 January 2019
    Purple Tanz Festival
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  • 24 January 2019
    Purple Tanz Festival
    Berlin
  • 10 January 2019
    La Forgerie
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  • 10 February 2018
    ODACC, département Calvados
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    ODACC, département Calvados
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    ODACC, département du Calvados
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    ECAM
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  • 19 December 2017
    La Ferme de Bel Ebat
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  • 14 April 2017
    Centre de la Danse Pierre Doussaint
    Les Mureaux
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    THV – Théâtre de l’Hôtel de Ville
    Saint-Barthélémy d’Anjou
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    Théâtre de Montargis
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    Théâtre de Montargis
    Montargis
  • 14 January 2017
    Centre Olivier Messian
    Champigny-sur-Marne
  • 14 December 2016
    Festival Fang Mae Khong
    Vientiane
  • 13 December 2016
    Festival Fang Mae Khong
    Vientiane
  • 4 November 2016
    Espace Germinal
    Fosses
  • 9 September 2016
    Abundance Festival
    Karlstad
  • 8 September 2016
    Abundance Festival
    Karlstad
  • 27 May 2016
    Festival Hors les mûrs
    Reims
  • 1 May 2016
    Encontro de Dança
    Parnamirim
  • 29 April 2016
    Teatro da Ribeira
    Natal
  • 27 April 2016
    Teatro Guaira
    Curitiba
  • 24 April 2016
    Vivadança Festival
    Salvador
  • 19 March 2016
    Maison de la Danse
    Lyon
  • 10 March 2016
    Festival Les Hybrides HipHopées
    Ferney-Voltaire
  • 9 March 2016
    Festival Les Hybrides HipHopées
    Ferney-Voltaire
  • 17 February 2016
    Collège des Bernardins
    Paris
  • 7 November 2015
    Festival Echo Echo
    Derry
  • 31 October 2015
    Festival Danses Ouvertes
    Fontenay-aux-Roses
  • 17 October 2015
    Prisma Festival
    Panama City
  • 14 October 2015
    Université de Bobigny
    Bobigny
  • 4 October 2015
    Sacré Festival
    Parthenay
  • 31 July 2015
    Semaine des Arts
    Soueich
  • 18 July 2015
    Teatro a Corte
    Turin
  • 9 July 2015
    Terre de Danses
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  • 25 June 2015
    Zawirowania Dance Festival
    Varsovie
  • 12 June 2015
    Footprint Dance Festival
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  • 7 June 2015
    Festival Cadiz en Danza
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    Festival Cadiz en Danza
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  • 23 May 2015
    Festival ExtraPôle
    Strasbourg
  • 11 April 2015
    Théâtre de Brétigny-sur-Orge
    Brétigny-sur-Orge
  • 9 April 2015
    Théâtre Anne de Bretagne
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  • 6 March 2015
    L’Imprévu, Centre Culturel
    Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône
  • 6 February 2015
    Auditorium de Coulanges
    Gonesse
  • 10 January 2015
    Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille
    Paris
  • 9 January 2015
    Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille
    Paris
  • 8 January 2015
    Amphithéâtre de l’Opéra Bastille
    Paris
  • 6 December 2014
    Mouvement sur la Ville
    Montpellier
  • 5 December 2014
    Festival H2O
    Aulnay-sous-Bois
  • 25 November 2014
    Tanz Festival Tempel Kulturzemtrum
    Karlsruhe
  • 23 November 2014
    Unitheater
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  • 22 November 2014
    Unitheater
    Regensburg
  • 19 November 2014
    Kulturhaus Abraxas
    Augsburg
  • 17 November 2014
    Stadttheater Podium
    Ulm
  • 16 November 2014
    Stadttheater Podium
    Ulm
  • 15 November 2014
    Treffpunkt
    Stuttgart
  • 14 November 2014
    Treffpunkt
    Stuttgart
  • 23 October 2014 29 October 2014
    Masdanza International Contemporary Dance Festival
    La Palma
  • 21 October 2014
    Théâtre ONYX
    Saint-Herblain
  • 11 October 2014
    Mac Orlan
    Brest
  • 4 October 2014
    Conservatoire Maurice Ravel
    Villemomble
  • 27 September 2014
    La Briqueterie
    Vitry-sur-Seine
    Instantanés Arcadi
  • 21 September 2014
    Festival Constellations
    Toulon
  • 12 July 2014
    Festival Step by Straight
    Divonne-les-Bains
  • 8 July 2014
    Mainfranken Theater
    Würzburg
  • 30 May 2014
    DanseHallerne
    Copenhague
  • 29 May 2014
    DanseHallerne
    Copenhague
  • 18 May 2014
    Maison des Métallos
    Paris
  • 17 May 2014
    Maison des Métallos
    Paris
  • 16 May 2014
    Maison des Métallos
    Paris
  • 15 May 2014
    Maison des Métallos
    Paris
  • 14 May 2014
    Maison des Métallos
    Paris
  • 11 May 2014
    Auditorium Saint Germain, MPAA
    Paris
  • 10 May 2014
    Auditorium Saint Germain, MPAA
    Paris
  • 18 April 2014
    Salle Guy de Maupassant
    Bolbec
  • 15 April 2014
    Théâtre des Deux Rives
    Charenton-le-Pont
  • 29 March 2014
    Théâtre Claude Debussy
    Maisons-Alfort
  • 27 March 2014
    Festival Les Incandescences, Théâtre Berthelot
    Montreuil
  • 15 March 2014
    Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival
    Stuttgart
  • 8 March 2014
    Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle
    La Rochelle
  • 15 February 2014
    Théâtre Municipal de Sens
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  • 27 January 2014
    Festival Suresnes Cités Danse
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  • 26 January 2014
    Festival Suresnes Cités Danse
    Suresnes
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    Festival Suresnes Cités Danse
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    Théâtre de L’Etoile du Nord
    Paris
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    Théâtre de L’Etoile du Nord
    Paris
  • 19 November 2013
    Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil
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    Festival Karavel 7
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    Festival Un Break à Lourdes
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  • 27 April 2013
    Festival Tou’s Mélange
    Saint-Clar
  • 20 April 2013
    La Ptite Criée
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  • 19 April 2013
    Grande Halle de la Villette – Salle Boris Vian
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