What we talk about when we talk about skateboarding
or how I become a dancer
Choreographic performance with music and words a bit autobiographic for an audience of teenagers of all ages.
It’ll talk about skateboard, dance, self-challenge and conformism.
What we talk about when we talk about skateboarding or how I became a dancer
What we talk about when we talk about…Is a journey into the land of empathy.
We share the reality of a teenager who loves skateboarding. He is front of us on stage 25 years later. He performs tricks on his board and tells stories, sometimes personal, others about his generation, and about skateboarding.
Little by little, the almost 40-year-old performer materializes under our eyes the teenager he was, that he still is, and the dose of stubbornness we need to constantly start over after having fallen.
This is the path of learning to skateboard, of self-realization, of becoming a dancer, a path on which among others we will meets Samuel Beckett and “fail better”.
Photographies: ©DanielAndersson
Distribution
Conception : Benoit Canteteau
Performer : Benoit Canteteau
Sound design : Nicolas Marsane
Choreographic assistant : Lucie Collardeau
Dramaturge: Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Artistic advice: Sidonie Rochon
External eye ofr staging: David Rolland
Support
Production Groupe FLUO
Coproduction : National Choreographic Center of Nantes CCNN (FR), L’ESTRAN – Guidel (FR), MASSALIA – Marseille (FR), La Déferlante – City of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (FR), Carré d’argent – Pontchâteau (FR)
Support: DELTA espace culturel Provincial – Namur (BE), ONYX – Saint-Herblain (FR), Regionteater VÄST (Suède) Conseil Départemental de Loire-Atlantique, Pôle Européen de Production (PEP) des Pays de la Loire, French Institut of Sweden
Length: 35 minutes
Création 2025
out March 19th National Choreographic Center of Nantes – Festival Petit et Grand
