Contemporary dance

Monuments in Motion - Screws and Stones

Choreographer Alexander Vantournhout directs and challenges the body with Screws and Stones at La Conciergerie de Paris.  The dance performance Screws and Stones refers to the pianist Nils Frahm’s 2011 album. At that time, he had broken several fingers and couldn’t play the piano anymore. He composed some pieces for each finger so he could keep on playing. It inspired Alexander Vantournhout a surrealistic universe where physical items reduce the movement capacity of the performers and influence the choreography. It is an astonishing painting of the body skills. Choreography : Alexander Vantournhout – From the SCREWS performance Music : Nils Frahm Dancers : Josse De Broeck, Petra Steindl, Emmi Väisänen, Hendrik Van Maele, Alexander Vantournhout, Felix Zech

Monuments in Motion - I remember saying goodbye

I remember saying goodbye Choreography by Christian and François Ben Aïm At the Sainte Chapelle Performers: Christien Ben Aïm François Ben Aïm Louis Gillard Piers Faccini (musician)

SCENA MADRE*

SCENA MADRE* by Ambra Senatore is both complex and unusual, a ballet of “mother-scenes” resembling a turning kaleidoscope. In this homage to the cinema, the choreographer plays with the idea that in dance, too, one can interpret a playlet of everyday life, rewind it, dissect it and place it within its own context (mise-en-abime).

Monuments in motion - Duo

The Duo is the opportunity for Emanuel Gat to concentrate on a form that leads to a return to essentials. The limited possibilities for composition imposed by the restricted number of dancers requires a return to basics. The attention given to movement and the creation of a powerful context become even more crucial elements.

Monuments in motion - Preljocaj Montmajour

As dusk falls, the dancers of the Ballet Preliocai invite the abbey’s visitors to a sensorial experience through the building, creative dance and time. They present an intimist approach to the setting in which they reveal the full amplitude of Angelin Preliocai’s vocabulary – a blend of metaphor, state of grace and contemplation.

Monuments in Motion - Variations

Justine Berthillot and Frédéri Vernier run, embrace, lift each other and fall… In a creative outburst that is unrestrained yet in symbiosis. A blend of strength and weakness, of exploit and respite, Noos is a duo that is both natural and highly sensitive.

Monuments in motion - The great Ghosts by Yoann Bourgeois

The Great Ghosts by Yoann Bourgeois Adapted from “The Mechanics of History, an attempt to approach a point of suspension” A living exhibition at the Pantheon. Performers: Prologue: Yurié Tsugawa Inertia: Elise Legros & Jean-Yves Phuong Trajectory: Sonia Delbost-Henry Balance: Estelle Clément-Béalem & Raphaël Defour Energy: Yoann Bourgeois, Damien Droin, Emilien Janneteau, Lucas Struna Music: Franz Schubert

Monuments in Motion - Giotto Solo

GIOTTO SOLO by Carolyn Carlson, at the Panthéon

Monuments in Motion - In one Continuous Beat

In one continuous beat, at the Château de Pierrefonds

Auguri by Oliver Dubois at the Théâtre National de Chaillot

The new hypnotic creation by Olivier Dubois at Chaillot Program: Choreography and Scenography: Olivier Dubois Musical Creation: François Caffenne Lighting: Patrick Riou Production:  Ballet du Nord Olivier Dubois / Centre chorégraphique national Roubaix Hauts De France Coproduction: Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2016, Kampnagel Hamburg (Germany), Théâtre National de Chaillot Paris, Opéra de Lille, Grand Théâtre de Provence Aix-en-Provence, Festival Torino Danza (Italy) When the race becomes an absolute vital necessity, a frantic quest for happiness. Twenty-two men and women on stage unleash themselves in an eruption of jubilation and anguish. AUGURI is a whip crack of joy. The latest creation by Olivier Dubois¾and the finale of the trilogy Etude critique pour un trompe-l’oeil¾creates a “mystic theorem”. After the long and sublime march of Tragédie, his previous piece, here we have man’s race towards an absolute… happiness. With the extravagance we know of him and twenty-two performers, AUGURI promises to be the latest explosion from the master of the subject. The man who enjoyed a dazzling and deserved rise is here trying to find the springboard, the takeoff point to break free from gravity. Not to forget the ensemble-being! In an irresistible quest for the sensation of… happiness. An activist for the “intelligence of sensation”, Olivier Dubois strives to inspire enchantment by seeking, through the paths of men, an unfolding destiny, a secret humanity that can be read like the auguries of ancient times. Currents, counter-currents, birds, shelters, winds, abduction and furies are the guides on a frantic quest.

"At the same time"

Subject to the dictates of modern beauty and traditional taboos – when not reduced to violent expression or starvation – the body of the African man is stigmatized. In an attempt to free him from his complexes, transgressive choreographer Robyn Orlin and eight dancers from the Ecole des Sables place the body back at the center of the debate. A dance via deritualized rituals that eschews all exoticism to reach the political… Since her first successes in the mid 1990s, working to serve performers has been one of the major principles of Robyn Orlin’s work. Adept at performance theater and a champion of interactivity, she highlights the individuality of characters and cultures. Her preferred themes are directly related to the tragedies that have swept and continue to occur in her country of South Africa (Apartheid, AIDS) by using a form of dance that is extremely theatrical and by employing video. Creation and choreography by Robyn Orlin Cie Jant-Bi / Germaine Acogny Dancers Hans Peter Diop Ibaghino, Khalifa Ababacar Top Adelinou Dasylva, Tchébé Bertrand Saky Claude Marius Gomis Aliou Ndoye Mamadou Baldé Mohamed Abdoulaye Kane