Even though “gender” constitutes a political challenge more than ever, how can we take another look at the male body and masculinity? Boys don’t cry sidesteps exposed stereotypes ad nauseum. Constantly displayed as a heroic model or as an object of desire, the male body is confronted with a void of representation. Boys don’t cry engages in a physical deconstruction of testosterone, its fictions and its performances. The only weapons that are used are a martial drum kit and two male bodies that will experience the paradox of dance between power and fragility. The figures of today’s virile man will be explored through physical exertion to reduce them to crumbs and see them (perhaps) appear anew.

Choreographer Sylvain Huc
Performers Pierre-Michaël Faure and Sylvain Huc
Assistants Loran Chourrau and Cécile Grassin
Drummer Xavier Coriat
Stage manager and lighting designer Pierre Masselot
Sound technician Frédéric Caray

Duration 55 min

Production Faits & Gestes

Coproducers and partners
In partnership with the National University for Civil Aviation (ENAC) in Toulouse, National Opera Ballet of the Rhine / CCN de Mulhouse (studio residencies), the city of Cournon d’Auvergne - La Coloc’ de la culture- Puy de Mômes Festival; with the support of the Cultural Center in Saint-Agne, of the Toulouse CDC / Midi-Pyrénées and of the Docks, the Cahors SMAC et the SPEDIDAM.

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