• Director(s):

    RABATE (JEAN)

  • Producer(s):

    MEZZO

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2002

  • Language(s):

    French

  • Rights:

    TV, NON-THEATRICAL

For this documentary, we go to Grenoble, Gallotta's home town, where he founded his dance company. He guides us through his favourite places, talking passionately about his work in careful sentences and voluble, expressive body language.

For this documentary, we go to Grenoble, Gallotta's home town, where he founded his dance company. In his rehearsal studio, in the outbuilding where he made a film, at the crossroads, on the hills and promontories overlooking the city, in the woods of his childhood, he guides us through his favourite places, talking passionately about his work in careful sentences and voluble, expressive body language. The film cuts back and forth between the interview and the dancers in rehearsal, gradually demonstrating the principles which underpin his work - broken rhythms, minimalist sketched-in movements, sobriety, improvisation, literature and the importance of words, total assimilation of movement into the body and between dancers, desire, play and transmission.
The pieces illustrated in the film are Mamame and Presque Don Quichotte.