Au Bout des Doigts is a dance performance that challenges verticality, through the elegance, naturalness and unpredictability of sport climbing.
The show recreates a unique and particular, sometimes utopian, atmosphere, that manages to exert a strong appeal within each one of us. The viewer enjoys the spectacular nature of the sporting gesture, the wonder of seeing a man rise from the ground, the direct connection with nature, the actual risk management before his eyes.
Au Bout des Doigts is a performance that amazes audiences, creating a unique universe, a suspended moment in which lights, music and choreography reveal an aspect of the rocky walls that has never been seen before. Even sport climbing appears in another form, more ethereal, poetic and engaging, leaving viewers in suspense for its entire duration.
The show involves an exceptional cast: six professional dancers who at the same are high-level climbers from Italy, France, England and Slovakia.
Au Bout des Doigts mixes the strong principles of contemporary dance, such as the release, sliding and falling, to the pragmatic but sometimes instinctive movement of free climbing.
A highly spectacular component of the performance is the complete crossing of the site on a cable more than 30 meters high.
The public is literally “flown over” by a performer, who without any help or support, only by controlling his own balance, walks over the heads of the spectators.
Therefore, climbing and dancing are joined by the slackline technique, a crossing on a suspended length of flat webbing between two opposite points of the mountain, where exeptional funambulism meets exeptional landscape.
