Threshold (2025) - Tumbleweed

The fourth production by Tumbleweed, Threshold focuses on the direct relationship between sound and movement. Using a non-linear, fragmented approach to writing, the show revolves around the theme of latency.

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 two performers take turns and support one another, without ever falling into step. Interwoven within two distinct musical scores, they are linked to one another through resonance. Threshold is a piece suspended in the void, which highlights the essential role of the environment in the emergence of any form of relationship.

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

The company is currently developing research for a group piece with children, Un Monde Réel (creation 2027).

Website : www.cietumbleweed.com

Threshold - a project by Tumbleweed (45’, 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 DATES

  • 12.11.2026 | Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt (BE)

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

  • 20.11.2026 | Festival TNB, Le Triangle, Rennes, FR

  • 27.11.2026 | (short version), Tanzfestival Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)

  • Jan 2027 | Faits d’Hiver, Paris (FR) - in option

  • March 2027 | Les Printemps de Sévelin, Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne

PREVIOUS 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)

  • 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)

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