Dehors est blanc

“The Tumbleweed company fascinates us from beginning to end (…) To discover Tumbleweed’s new creation, you first have to be patient. The doors of the auditorium only open at the last minute and you settle into almost total darkness, troubled only by a large white square on the floor. (…) As the light gradually increases, you can now make out three bodies moving infinitely slowly and finding themselves in unthinkable positions with absolute mastery. Sitting, lying, slowly tumbling over themselves, hanging upside down like Icarus suspending their fall… It becomes apparent that the slowness of their movements is not a desire to slow the course of events but the direct consequence of the incredible system of weights, pulleys and cables that allow them to float in the air while moving with infinite grace.
It is impossible to say more without spoiling the joy and amazement of future spectators as they discover a structure that becomes, in the final minutes, a superb scenic element. (…)”

Jean-Marie Wynants – Le Soir / Mad, 08.11.2023

“Aerial virtuosity and hazy poetry for a suspended trio, Dehors est blanc is an invitation to let go and breathe. (…) The infinitesimal as evidence, gentleness as immense force and sublimated reality. This is what Tumbleweed distils in a show that allows time to settle in, to express itself, to make us see a thousand things and more, (…) A marginal performance of masterful poetry”.

Isabelle Plumhans – Focus Le Vif, 02.11.2023

“(…) If Tumbleweed worked on the retinal persistence of images in A Very Eye, Dehors est blanc explores the possibility of a body freed from gravity, testifying to a need to go beyond limits and enter new territories for the duo Angela Rabaglio and Micaël Florentz who make up Tumbleweed. But freeing themselves from gravity is a real challenge, given that body mechanics and movements here on earth are rigorously subject to the laws of gravity, and that dance is formed precisely in this relationship. (…)

It is incredible and beautiful to see a drop of sweat fall from the face into the void beyond the head and not on to the feet of the person walking and sweating. If the concentrated precision of the movements and the luminous plate on which they float are reminiscent of a sort of giant microscope putting new forms of life, other ways of being alive, in front of its lens, Dehors est blanc is light years away from astronauts and technological weightlessness, and it’s a good thing that this proposal doesn’t turn into a space merry-go-round, no, it’s more a question of putting a dancing body to the test if it were to disregard what usually governs it. It’s a deterritorialisation that aims to get off the ground (…)”

Nicolas Thevenot – Un Fauteuil pour l’Orchestre, 19.06.2023