A fragile figure suspended between dream and reality, author Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote haunts Knight-Night, Bryana Fritz and Thibault Lac’s two-person collaboration. What if this suspension deals with the limit between reality and representation on stage? Far from staging the character created by Cervantes in a literal way, Knight-Night invents visual and sound sequences which enter into dialogue with the elusive figure of the knight while attentive to the fragility imposed by live performance. Bryana Fritz is a choreographer, dancer and writer; Thibault Lac studied architecture before turning to dance. Their shared love of queer and feminist art and its utopian possibilities unites them in this performance where they challenge the limits of scenic space. Movement, song, text and costumes are mobilized in turn in a Quixotic quest to invent a common and shared space.
Premiere March 12th, 2022 at the CNDC in Angers, during the festival Conversations. On tour March 18 and 19 at the Centre National de la Danse in Pantin.
Concept and interpretation : Bryana Fritz and Thibault Lac # Artistic consultant: Stephen Thompson # Lighting: Alice Panziera # Sound: Tobias Koch # Technical dorection: François Boulet # Associate production: CN D Centre national de la danse # Coproduction: Cndc-Angers, Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, Ballet national de Marseille, Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, Charleroi Danse, Actoral – festival international des arts & des écritures contemporaines.
Bryana Fritz
is a choreographer, dancer and writer. Her work lies at the intersection of poetry and performance, of choreographic desktop art and dance. She is currently working with the medieval genre of hagiography, developing a series of performance portraits of female saints. Bryana Fritz has also danced for Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Xavier Le Roy and Michiel Vandevelde. Since 2016, she has been collaborating with Henry Andersen under the name Slow Reading Club, a semi-fictional reading club that generates choreographic situations for group readings.
Thibault Lac
studied architecture before attending Performing Arts Research and Training Studios [P.A.R.T.S] in Brussels from 2006 to 2010. While still studying, he danced in Jérôme Bel’s The Show Must Go On in 2009, and assisted Tino Sehgal in his exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2010. A performer with Ligia Lewis, Noé Soulier, Eleanor Bauer, Daniel Linehan, Mathilde Monnier, Alexandra Bachzetsis and Daniel Jeanneteau, he is a recurring presence in the various configurations of Trajal Harrell’s project: Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church. He is also involved in collaborative projects as a choreographer, including Such Sweet Thunder, created with visual artist Tore Wallert and composer Tobias Koch, which was awarded the Young Choreographers Prize at the Impulstanz Festival 2019 in Vienna, and was presented at the Centre National de la Danse as part of Camping 2021.
