Spectacle de danse : "Variations on Tenderness" de Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot et Antoine Mermet

Discover the contemporary dance programme of the Atelier de Paris / CDCN, at the Cartoucherie in the Bois de Vincennes!

Variations on Tenderness by Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot and Antoine Mermet

Since tenderness accepts as many definitions as there are personal experiences, two performer-choreographers and one performer-musician invite a collective and experimental exploration around this anti-authoritarian watchword, transforming both ways of being together and the forms of representation itself. If tenderness is a territory, competition, control, and the demand for productivity certainly have no place there, even if they reign almost everywhere else. For bodies entering this underexplored zone, it's about relearning to listen to each other, to respect each other, to inhabit together. It is to this ethic that Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot, and Antoine Mermet invite the public to practice, through an experimental process nourished by archives, interviews conducted with queer activists, and workshops held with the public during each residency period. From this emerges a form between a show, a learning space, and a gathering. A protected but porous space, where vulnerability is shared and where listening to one's desire is not negotiated without that of others. Soliciting writing, speech, song, and movement, Variations on Tenderness thus opens a breach towards a radical way of living together.

Friday 13 November 2026 at 8pm

Saturday 14 November 2026 at 5pm, followed by a post-show discussion with the artists

Saturday 14 November 2026 at 8pm

Danced childcare on Saturday at 5pm: while parents attend the show, children dance!