Intimacy is a story of encounters: that of the dancer Germain Zambi and the musician Florentin Ginot, and that of the clash between musical relics and Krump, the intense dance straight out of 2000s Los Angeles.

Intimacy is a double solo, a face-to-face in which the musician and the dancer move in close contact with the audience, seated as near as possible and, where feasible, arranged in a circle around the playing area.

The music presented throughout the evening originates in a journey through collections of ancient popular songs and dances, handed down orally across the centuries, from Galicia (Renaissance), Scotland and Ireland (17th century). A poetics of listening emerges from this music through its simplicity, its vividness, its freedom.

Florentin Ginot arranges this repertoire for his double bass and a few traditional instruments (hurdy-gurdy), extended into electronics. He accompanies these Songs of musical relics, filtered and transformed with his samplers and modern effects. A dialogue with the past that Germain Zambi hooks into, modulates and spins within the figure of the circle, so dear to the Krump community. Alternating stomps, armswings, chest pops and buck faces, the dancer bursts into this musical aesthetic, inviting the audience to enter his intimate space.

The two artists give an interpretation of this tour of traditional Europe, infusing it with all the power of Krump, the depth of the double bass and the space of electronics.

Intimacy, commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris, premiered on 21 March 2025.