Pascal Allio

L'interprète ou témoin de l'intime

(2009 – work in progress ; a part of it (20 min) will be presented)

Conception and choreography Pascal Allio
Dance excerpts and collaboration Christine Bastin, Jean Gaudin, Daniel Larrieu
Texts in collaboration with Didier Cousin, Pascal Allio
Light Dominique Mabileau
Sound Marc Piera
Technique Olivier Mendili

Pascal Allio’s new creation examines his career as a dancer, the works that made him grow up and become who he is now. In this piece, he shows, among others, Christine Bastin’s dances taken from Bless (1989) and Gueule de Loup (1992), dances adapted from Jean Gaudin’s L'Ascète de San Clémente et la Vierge Marie (1986) and from Daniel Larrieu’s Jungle sur la planète Vénus (1992).
 

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Colette Sadler

The Making of Doubt

(2009 – 20 min excerpt)

Conception and realisation Colette Sadler
Performance and choreographies Eva Baumann, Maxwell McCarthy, Sybille Müller, Nefeli Skarmea
Dolls and prosthesics Kattrin Michel, Klemens Kuhn & Hagen Tilp
Light Florian Bach
Music Zoviet*France

The Making of Doubt takes the human doll as an emblem of representation and places it within the real and impossible condition of its words and actions. Is it possible to extend the notion of agency beyond the human? How much authenticity does the viewer need to construct a system of belief around the fake - what details could be left out or taken away?

Laurence Pagès

Corps de luttes 

(2009 – Creation - 15 min)

Conception Laurence Pagès
Performance Nina Santès
Sound creation Michel Wisniewski
Advice Nicole Klein et Sylviane Pagès

Influenced by butô and improvisation, Laurence Pagès has created several pieces where breathing holds a central position. Corps de luttes explores the radical constraint of apnoea.
 

 

Isabelle Botti

La Balançoire

(2009 – Creation - 15 min)

Choreography and performance Isabelle Botti
Music Vincent Dorlac
Technique and light Laurent Billon

Isabelle Botti worked with Carolyn Carlson, Odile Azagury, Claire Filmon and Jean-Marc Matos. In La Balançoire (“The swing”), she explores swinging, which reflects the turmoil of metamorphosis and trance, and leads to a new sensorial experience.
 

 

Eléonore Didier

laiSSeRVenIR

(2009 - 20 min)

Conception and performance Eléonore Didier
Light Gisèle Pape

Eléonore Didier works on the fact that, in Ancient Greece and Rome, there was no distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality, but between passive and active attitudes. Her solo finds its way between those attitudes, sometimes active, sometimes passive, working on vertical and horizontal axes, and on the representations of femininity.
 

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Raphaël Cottin

Le Point de Vérité

(2009 – Creation - 16  min)

Choreography Raphaël Cottin
Performance Corinne Lopez
Musical creation David Moreau
Additional music Patti Smith

This solo deals with the life of a dancer – it is performed by Corinne Lopez, whose career began in the 1980’s. It begins as an examination at dance school, and then goes throughout the memories and various experiences which punctuate a dancer’s life.
 

Fouad Boussouf

Déviation

(2008 – 25 min)

Choreography Fouad Boussouf
Performance Emilie Bregougnon, Fouad Boussouf, Marc Brillant, Rémi Esterle
Technique Shani Breton
Music Thierry Sadou
Preparation of the car Nijel Robinson, plasticien Yoda, Graff

This piece, for four dancers and a car, explores what a car represents in several contexts (in a city, in the country, in other states…). It is also about exploring new ways of acting and interacting on the road. Pedestrians meet each other, communicate and interact with the car, which becomes a playing field.
 

Nicolas Cantillon et Laurence Yadi

Listen & Watch

(40 min)

Concept and choreography Laurence Yadi, Nicolas Cantillon
Performance Nicolas Cantillon, Steffen Basho-Junghans
Music Steffen Basho-Junghans
Light Laurent Junod
Technique Ian Durrer

In 2006, Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon created Climax, a solo performed by Nicolas Cantillon, based on a succession of emblematic images taken from dance history, sports and politics. Then they recreated this piece with a guitarist on stage – first Sir Richard Bishop, then Steffen Basho-Junghans.
 

Isabelle Anna

Kathak Opus 3

(2009 – Creation - 20 min)

Choreography Isabelle Anna
Dance Deepak Maharaj and Isabelle Anna
Musicians Pt Jaikishan Maharaj, Kengo Saito

Isabelle Anna is one of the few “non-Indian” dancers officially acknowledged by the Indian government to represent Kathak in other countries. Kathak Opus 3 is a new creation which follows the rules of traditional Kathak, and which shows off the freedom given to the dancers in their inventiveness and interactions.
 

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Hélène Cathala

Talking Blues

(20 min from a work currently in progress)

Choreography Hélène Cathala
Performers Christophe Brombin, Jérôme d’Orso
Actor and video creator Marc Baylet
Guitarist Sven Pohlhammer
Scenography Emmanuelle Debeussher

Hélène Cathala was a dancer in Dominique Bagouet’s company. She created her first company in 1993 with Fabrice Ramalingom. In this new creation, she works on folk singers, and the way they used both committed texts and everyday words, together with vocal emphasis and even, sometimes, technical virtuosity. Talking Blues is especially inspired by American poet Allen Ginsberg and his long poem HOWL, haunted and blunt.
 

 

Reading - Repères, cahier de danse

Repères, cahier de danse is a dance review that is published twice a year by CDC / Biennale de danse du Val-de-Marne. Sylviane Pagès will read her text about the way Merce Cunningham was received in France, published in the last issue (April 2009).
 

 

Pénélope Hausermann

Objet nature 

(2007 – 20 min excerpt)

Choreography, realisation and performance Pénélope Hausermann
Music and sound Benjamin Ritter
Stage manager assistant Karen Bayol
Light Sylvie Garot
Video Pénélope Hausermann and Cyrille Doukhan
Props Martial Joly, Jean-Michel Boivin

“I feel the world as a tragedy, a countdown – implicit but always present.”
Pénélope Hausermann was trained in Marcel Marceau’s mime school. She is also a trapeze artist. She has worked with Transe-Express, Benoît Lachambre or Philippe Decouflé.


 

Caroline Grosjean

à l'endroit...

(2009 – 25 min)

Choreography and performance Caroline Grosjean
Technique Emmanuel Gary

As a dancer, Caroline Grosjean worked for Loulou Omer (Austria), Ximena Walerstein, Lin Yuan Shang (France)… She is now beginning to create her own works. à l’endroit… is a solo “for one performer and viewers”, in a restrictive, nearly arid frame – silence, closeness with the audience, and limited space.

Viviana Moin

Billy

(12-15 min)

Choreography and dance Viviana Moin
Music Nina Simone
 

This story begins with child memories. Then it gradually becomes a surrealist theory of human sexuality… That will lead to a dance with two snails, on a music by Nina Simone: Don’t let me be misunderstood.
 

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Nancy Naous

Instant de chutes

(2008 – 10 to 15 minutes excerpt)

Conception and realisation Nancy Naous
Performance Dalia Naous, Nancy Naous
Music Wael Kodeih
Video and Scenography David Mathias
Light Hagop Der-Gougassian
Costumes Bassam Anouti

Instant de chutes is a multidisciplinary performance: dance, sound and image. The body is compared to a Hoover, restlessly pumping in everything that surrounds it – then exploding.
 

 

Julia Cima

Danse Hors cadre

(2009 – 25 min)

Choreography and dance Julia Cima
Technique Mustapha Elmanferrah

Julia Cima works on dance video archives, and proposes an original path throughout dance history – the Rumberas (Mexican musicals of the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s), the Cake-Walk, the Butô… Some dances she had learnt for her previous solo, Visitations, are also present in Danse Hors cadre, such as Duncan’s Revolutionary Etude or Valeska Gert’s short dances, as they can be presented in various spaces.
 

 

Kataline Patkaï

Metamorphosis Sisters

(2008 – 20 min)

Conception Kataline Patkai
Performance Aude Lachaise, Lisa Nogara, Kataline Patkai, Jesus Sevari, Julie Trouverie, Virginie Thomas
Technique Benjamin Boifier

Six women, sisters, our sisters… Following Marguerite Duras’ writings, six women throw themselves in the adventure of existing. Metamorphosis Sisters tracks down this fleeting and persistent feeling of a time that both corrupts and fertilizes.
 

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