DU FOLIE

OF MADNESS
OF FOLIA
OF FOLIS
AND
OF “DECONNIATRY”

Mobilizing one’s attention and beliefs, putting oneself in tension, giving one’s trust: in service of what? Pier Paolo Pasolini urged to “throw one’s body into the battle,” perhaps to end up disregarding everything and talking about MADNESS, in the masculine.

It is time to wake up, to break out of isolation, confinement, to feel. Going to the mountains, shouting from the top, chopping wood, warming oneself… Am I talking nonsense? Am I reading too much news? Am I cultivating the fear and anxiety generated by this toxic environment? Am I mad, or is someone trying to make me believe that I am?

One should, like Antonin Artaud, return to the atomic body, as opposed to the anatomical body, stripped of its organs and automatons, returned to its freedom, to relearn how to “dance backwards” and make this backwards my new place. In his “History of Madness in the Classical Age”, Michel Foucault shows that psychiatry, as we know it, is a Western construction based on exclusion. We can always remind ourselves that something that is constructed can be deconstructed, whether it’s a healthcare system, a sensitive mental state, or the perspective we have of it. The madman has not always been the marginalized figure we lock away. So, what is the dialogue between normality and madness, between reason and unreason? Madness refers to a marginalized and anticonformist posture, an obsession, a passion, a whim, an excessive financial expenditure, or even a form of claimed idiocy.

We will find strength and courage to be in the world as we are to ourselves: normally maladapted, and no less proud or alive.

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cast

choreography and costumes • David Wampach
dance • Zakary Bairi, Tom Crebassa, David Wampach
choreographic assistant • Christian Ubl
creative participation • Pascal Landrau
sound composition and arrangements • Jérôme Hoffman
lighting • Abigail Fowler
artistic advisors • Dalila Khatir, Silvia Di Rienzo, Tamar Shelef, Léa Leclerc
costume design • Rachel Garcia and Marion Xardel
scenic elements • Emmanuelle Debeusscherl
stage management • Karen Jouve

touring

September 13, 2025 • LA DÉTER festival
June 28, 29 and 30, 2025 • DU FOLIE premieres at the Montpellier Danse 2025 festival
June 13, 2025 • pre-premiere • Filature du Mazel

mentions

Sound Sources • Pascal Landrau (guitar), vocals by Francois Tosquelles and Liao Yiwu Le grand massacre, evocation of Bartok’s The Marvelous Mandarin, Rhodes Digressions, Sex Pistols Who Killed Bambi?, montage of fragments from Giuseppe Verdi’s Prelude to La Traviata, Remix of The Knive We Share Our Mother’s Health
Executive production • Achles Association
Co-production • Montpellier Danse 2025 Festival, CCN2-National Choreographic Center of Grenoble
The Achles Association is accredited by the Ministry of Culture-DRAC Occitane.
With the support of the Occitanie region, the Gard department, and the City of Montpellier.
loan of studios • the Filature du Mazel in Val d’Aigoual, Hangar theatre, the Cratère, national stage of Alès, the Agora of Montpellier, the ENSAM, as part of the “Artist Residency” scheme of the ENSAM and the Ministry of Culture-DRAC Occitanie, the Théâtre de Nîmes, Conventioned Stage of National Interest – art and creation – Contemporary Dance as part of the provision of a studio