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

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

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

Since tenderness admits as many definitions as there are personal experiences, two performer-choreographers and a performer-musician invite collective, experimental research around this anti-authoritarian watchword, transforming both the 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 just about everywhere else. For bodies entering this far-too-little-explored zone, the task is to relearn how to listen to oneself, to respect oneself and to live together. It is this ethic that Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot and Antoine Mermet invite the audience to practise, through an experimental process fed by archives, interviews with queer activists and workshops held with the public during each residency period. From this emerges a form somewhere between a show, a place of learning and a gathering. A protected yet porous space, where vulnerability is shared and where listening to one's own desire is not negotiated without attending to that of others. Drawing on writing, speech, singing 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 talk with the artists

Saturday 14 November 2026 at 8pm

Dance childcare on Saturday at 5pm: while parents watch the show, children dance!