Following the success of M. & Mme Rêve, Théâtre du Corps Pietragalla – Derouault presents its new creation Je t’ai rencontré par hasard, which can be seen at the Folies Bergère in Paris from February 09 to 21, 2016. The two choreographers Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julien Derouault continue their original and creative collaboration by questioning the relationship between a man and a woman, the meeting of two solitudes.
Je t’ai rencontré par hasard is a show about the present, duration and the movement of feelings. An intimate and universal journey through what constitutes the bond of love, the state of grace that is the experience of this shock.
Here, the couple, staged in all their simplicity, symbolizes the relationship between a man and a woman, the spark of an encounter, the outpouring of questions and the notion of time, reinventing their story at every moment. This creation marks a new stage in the work of Théâtre du Corps, 10 years after Souviens-toi…, the company’s first play. In Souviens-toi…, created by and for Marie-Claude Pietragalla and Julien Derouault, the choreographers dealt with palpable memory, with time slipping away, giving way to the memories of the soul, the indelible traces that build beings through the different ages of life. Leaving this paradise of the ephemeral, the great myths pass through a personal
history where moments of life, birth, love and the transmission of collective memory blossom in the creative light. 
Love is a mystery; it speaks to our part of the unknown. It is perhaps the most difficult test, the highest testimony to oneself. What is the determining factor in an encounter? A look, a gesture, an attitude, a silence, a spark that ignites, a magic that is created, a moment of grace that we define as a love shock. And then the couple is formed, it is inscribed in space and time, it is made up of multiple things, sensations, references that they have allowed each other to discover in themselves. “It’s the originality of the relationship that must be conquered.” Roland Barthes – Fragments d’un discours amoureux. The couple is the place where each allows the other to exist in their truth and express their own richness. Time nourishes this relationship, or makes it disappear.
The contemporary nature of the characters comes face to face with great classical texts such as Racine’s Phèdre: “I saw him, I blushed, I stank at the sight of him; a turmoil arose in my distraught soul; my eyes could no longer see, I could not speak; I felt my whole body both transpire and burn.” Je t’ai rencontré par hasard (I met you by chance) is an intimate journey, a path through what can constitute the loving, human and singular bond of two beings: a play about the present, the duration and movement of feelings and sometimes their volatility.
All these moments cultivate the rarity of our lives, and unique human encounters consolidate and develop our maturity in approaching others. Je t’ai rencontré par hasard asks questions about the individual, his or her solitude, the encounter and the couple. These two characters suffer from a lack and warm to the idea of uniting. The experience of love shock is a state of grace that transports men, a tipping point that propels them beyond their reference points. Love is a revolutionary force that inspires dreams of a radiant tomorrow and generates creative power.
“What I hide with my language, my body says.” R. Barthes – Fragments of an amorous discourse
At the Folies Bergère in Paris from February 09 to 21, 2016
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