He speaks, she dances. And the two of them are looking for each other with greed, like playful children, under the amused eye of the choreographer Georges Appaix, a mischievous adventurer of the alphabet.

A fine example of casual longevity. Without ever raising his collar, it has been thirty years since the Marseillais Georges Appaix, "*dancer by break-in*", undertook with a quiet obstinacy tinged with humour to follow the course of the alphabet. From A for Antiquities, a founding piece in 1986, we are already at the letter V with "Towards a protocol of conversation?"

With a knowing eye, before singing himself, the choreographer observes, amused, the naïve dialogue that is played out between a woman (Mélanie Venino) and a man (Alessandro Bernardeschi). He talks (a lot), she dances (and keeps escaping in movement). This tasty exchange between body, words and music sets the tone for a delicately playful play, where our two lovebirds are looking for each other with greed, like playful children.

Georges Appaix is still dancing, still dancing and damn well! In this proposal presented to Benedict XII, he offers a choreography, if not a staging, of rare intelligence. It's very simple, "Towards a protocol of conversation?": it's an outstretched and open hand in which three interpreters float. Mélanie Venino and Alessandro Bernardeschi each have their own lifeline, their own language, Georges Appaix observes them and then joins them for a sweet madness... Ecstatic, subtle, infinitely funny, dance and theatre in symbiosis for a luminous conversation!

A white cut-out on Mélanie Venino in the courtyard, another on Alessandro Bernardeschi in the garden, black in the center of the stage, silence... The man explodes with words, the woman is inflamed with movements: he speaks to her, she responds to him. The intelligence of this work also lies in this feat, that of giving the audience the whole idea from the first second: "here is everything here, I show you everything and now we are going to fiddle with this material". And besides, it is also a question of crushing matter with the help of a few paper towels "surrounded" by a battery of fans operated by a childish Georges Appaix, then five or six years old, no more! Time that evaporates, spring euphoria of a story that is born, it doesn't matter... The board becomes a playground, "marbles in my pockets, I'm ten years old..." ». She approaches, he tightens, he continues to question like a machine gun to question and the sound system throws you the magic of a mythical musical encounter between Ray Charles and Betty Carter: there we don't play anymore, we stop breathing and we revel.

Direction: Georges Appaix (Choreography)
Cast: Mélanie Venino, Alessandro Bernardeschi, GeorgesAppaix Lumière, Pierre Jacot-Descombes, Son Eric Petit, Georges Appaix
Costumes: Michèle Paldacci, Laure; Music: Saubiez Hugonet