Following a “sports-etudes” (sports + study) course in Paris, Laurence Yadi was awarded a grant to study at the Alvin Ailey Center in New York. She then came back to France and worked for the J.Art Ballet in Paris for three years. In 2000, she became choreographic assistant for Rui Horta and worked in Switzerland with Guilherme Botelho, Kylie Walters, and Gisela Rocha.

Nicolas Cantillon started his dancing training at the Conservatoire Marius Petipa in 1989. He worked for the J.Art Ballet in Paris for eight years. In 1999, Andy Degroat recruited him for Bob Wilson’s Magic Flute at the Opéra Bastille. He has worked in partnership with Guilherme Botelho for three years. In parallel, he has worked with Gisela Rocha, Kylie Walters and Marisa Von Stockert.

“For Climax, we took as a starting point a work that represents a state of accomplishment, of plenitude; a definition so far from our usual approach that it helps clarify things, like a counter-model. Climax acts upon us like a counter stimulation, a negative dynamics: in the realm of dance, there is no miracle recipe. This is what gives free rein to our imagination. Laurence Yadi & Nicolas Cantillon.

Original idea and choreography by Laurence Yadi, Nicolas Cantillon. Lighting design by Jean-Philippe Roy.

Produced by Compagnie 7273 (Switzerland - France). Coproduced by Culturgest Lisbon (Portugal), O Espaço Do tempo Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal). With the help of: Fondation Liechti pour les Arts, Pro Helvetia - Fondation Suisse pour la culture, Ville de Genève - département des Affaires Culturelles, Etat de Genève - Département de l'instruction publique, Loterie Romande, DRAC Rhône-Alpes, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Conseil Général de la Haute-Savoie. Production sites: ADC Genève, Arsenic in Lausanne, Flux Laboratory in Carouge (Switzerland), O Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal). Compagnie 7273 works in partnership with the Fondation Nestlé pour l'art.