Threshold (2025) - Tumbleweed

While The Gyre, then A Very Eye and Dehors est blanc were constructed on a principle of continuity, of gradual evolution, Threshold follows a logic of non-linear, fragmented writing. Returning to the form of a duo, the company is dispersed over time : two performers, detached from one another, use the margin separating them as a source of impetus. Interdependence is maintained, here concentrated in a relationship of friction, reflecting the connection between sounds and movements.

Working in collaboration with the sound artist Daniel Bleikolm, Micaël Florentz and Angela Rabaglio research areas including voices, loops, sound produced by the body, acoustic illusions and psycho-acoustic effects. The piece is about using the gap that separates us to push out of the stupor and encourages us to take the leap. Thus Tumbleweed creates “a work extending into the void, which highlights the essential role of the environment in the birth of any form of relationship”. (M.B.)

After The Gyre (2018), A Very Eye (2022) and Dehors est blanc (2023), Threshold is Tumbleweed’s fourth project. Threshold premiered on October 8 & 9, 2025 at the Biennale de Charleroi danse. Contact us to know more.

Website : www.cietumbleweed.com

Threshold - a project by Tumbleweed (creation 2025)

Creation & Performance: Angela Rabaglio, Micaël Florentz
Sound Design: Daniel Bleikolm, Micaël Florentz
Light & Stage Design: Arnaud Gerniers
Costumes Design: Catherine Somers
Artistic advice: Marion Sage, Garance Maillot
Bad conscience: Pierre Giorgi
Technical Direction: Yorrick Detroy
Sound: Daniel Bleikolm
Administration: Camille Collard
Distribution & Communication: Quentin Legrand (Rue Branly)
Production: Tumbleweed
Coproduction: Charleroi danse - Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Les Tanneurs (BE), Le Triangle - Cité de la danse, Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale (FR)
Residency Partners: Charleroi danse, Grand Studio, Théâtre Varia, Studio Thor, Le Labeur - Dame de Pic (BE), Villa Cléa, Lavanderia a Vapore (IT), Tanzhaus Zuerich, Dansomètre, Dampfzentrale Bern, STAMM (CH), Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale (FR), airBurgenland (AT)
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International and Grand Studio

Photos: Stanislav Dobak

 

UPCOMING TOUR DATES

  • 14.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 15.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 16.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 17.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 18.04.2026 | Les Tanneurs, Bruxelles (BE)

  • 2026/2027 | Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt (BE) - in option

  • 2026/2027 | TanzinOlten, Olten (CH) - in option

  • 2026/2027 | Le Triangle, Rennes (FR) - in option

PREVIOUS TOUR DATES

  • 08.10.2025 | Biennale de Charleroi danse, Les Ecuries - Charleroi danse, Charleroi (BE) - PREMIERE

  • 09.10.2025 | Biennale de Charleroi danse, Les Ecuries - Charleroi danse, Charleroi (BE)

PRESS EXTRACTS

[ Review ] “On a stage dominated solely by a few sound diffusers, the voice of Micaël Florentz, alone in the darkness, multiplies and blends with sound effects created with Daniel Bleikolm. The tone is set, plunging the audience into a mysterious atmosphere where anything seems possible. When Angela Rabaglio appears in turn, she does so in silence, with her back to the audience, for a generous, bouncing dance, far removed from any familiar movements. Soon, the two accomplices come together for new bursts of astonishing fluidity. At Tumbleweed, even when the movement becomes complex, leading the body into tortuous undulations, everything seems to flow naturally. Between controlled nonchalance and delicate harmony, the duo occupies the space with an irresistible lightness. Without touching each other, they move back and forth, somewhat reminiscent of the footsteps of the horses that once occupied these places. Their bodies move separately but remain infinitely close. They cross paths, brush against each other, move apart, then come closer together in a choreography whose repetitions are enriched by multiple variations. It feels like discovering calligraphy in motion, then, a moment later, a kind of planetary race, in a universe where each person's balance depends on the movement of the other. A perpetual, constantly expanding movement, until this race amplifies and finally disappears into the darkness. All that remains is the vibrant echo of their vanished presence.”
Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, 14.10.25