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LÉZARDS BLEUS COMPANY
Safety to last
Creation 2023
A tribute to Harold Lloyd
Performance for a façade dancer, 2 parkour artists, a bassist, an acrobat and a singer
Choreography and façade dancer: Antoine Le Menestrel
With Marcia Barcellos, Jean-Christophe Bournine / Merakhaazan, Anthony Denis, Loup FrHeaven, Manouk Guibert.
Music: Grégory Véra
Lighting design: Samson Milcent
Accordist : Olivier Dobel-Ober
Ground manager : Jean-Luc Bichon
A century after the brilliant Harold Lloyd climbed the facade of a Los Angeles building with his bare hands, this performance renews the feat on the walls of the Cannes Cineum.
The scene has become a cult image: a little man in a black suit and hat, suspended by the hands of the giant clock of an American skyscraper. With Safety Last!, released in 1923, the ludicrous Harold Lloyd became legend. A hundred years later, Antoine le Menestrel pays tribute to an actor who has always been a source of inspiration. Imagining a vertical choreographic writing adaptable to a specific architecture and event, he presents his world creation in parallel with the Festival’s launch of the brand new MOV’IN Cannes dance-film festival. What could be more appropriate! At the opening of the awards ceremony, the man who describes himself as a “dream-maker” will complete his ascent along the walls of the cinema, designed by Rudy Ricciotti, which hosts the screenings. And like the hero of the film meeting a neighbor from floor to floor, he will meet an artist from the local area at each level, including Marcia Barcellos from Système Castafiore, the young circus artist Manouk Guibert, or the Nice bassist Jean-Christophe Bournine, from whom he has commissioned a short creation on the theme of Ascension and Descent. Not forgetting the parkour acrobats Anthony Denis and Loup FrHeaven, at his side along the way.
The result: connecting the arts, along with locals, festival-goers, movie-goers and dancers, in a joyful collective celebration. Thrills guaranteed!
Antoine Le Menestrel, Lézards Bleus Company
Having fallen into climbing as a child, Antoine Le Menestral took part in many international competitions in the 1980s, where he opened new routes on artificial structures. He founded the Lézards Bleus company in 1992 and has since collaborated with a host of artists, including Roméo Castellucci at the Avignon Festival in 2008, and the La Horde collective with the Marseille Ballet in 2021. He also regularly conducts training and educational actions for little ones as part of EAC or Politique de la Ville projects.
Credits
Production : Compagnie Lézards Bleus conventionnée par l’Etat-DRAC Paca, la Région Sud, le Département du Vaucluse et la Ville d’Apt. La compagnie est soutenue par la Spedidam « Aide à la Bande originale ».
Résidence : Ville de Saignon ; Communauté de Communes Pays d’Apt Luberon ; “Rouvrir le monde – Eté culturel 2023”
Technical Partners : Beal et Petzl
Coproduction : Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur France.
Support : Susanne Lloyd et Harold Lloyd Entertainment, Inc. et la Diacosmie – Nice.
18h00 - 40 min
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PROJECTION « SAFETY LAST » film de Fred C. Newmeyer et Sam Taylor
Thursday 30 nov – 9 pm – Cineum (Cannes La Bocca) – Price : 5€
L-E-V / SHARON EYAL – GAI BEHAR
Into The Hairy
Creation 2023
Performance for 7 dancers
Choreography : Sharon Eyal avec Gai Behar
Co-creator: Gai Behar
Original music : Koreless
Dancers : Darren Devaney, Guido Dutilh, Juan Gil, Alice Godfrey, Johnny McMillan , Keren Lurie Pardes, Nitzan Ressler
Costumes : Maria Grazia Chiuri – Christian Dior Couture
Lighting design : Alon Cohen
Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, whose striking creations have marked the decade – in collaboration with Koreless, rising star of British electro.
Since the birth of their L-E-V- company in 2013, based in France, the choreographer Sharon Eyal and her accomplice Gai Behar have been electrifying contemporary dance. Each of their productions has the unique gift of offering a combination of images and emotions, blending the power of dance, the millimetric geometry of bodies and the freeing touch of madness inherited from the underground culture of clubs and nightlife. In these moving scenes, lights, scenography and music all play a key role. The two artists have therefore entrusted the score of Into The Hairy to the composer Lewis Robert, aka Koreless, whose album Agor revolutionised the electro scene in 2021. Described as a “prodigy of minimalist music”, this Brit and his multiple inspirations offers up an imaginative sound experience, like a journey to be shared. The new L-E-V- piece also brings together stylist Maria Grazia Chirui, director of Christian Dior Culture, and lighting designer Alon Cohen, long-time partners of the company. Finally, it is brought to life by seven actors, experienced in all styles – essential craftsmen of the “magic” proclaimed by Sharon Eyal in all her stage productions.
Sharon Eyal
After dancing between 1990 and 2008 for Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company, Sharon Eyal served as assistant artistic director, then associate choreographer from 2005 to 2012. She founded the L-E-V- Dance Company in Tel Aviv with the multidisciplinary artist Gai Behar, a figure of the city’s nightlife, and has since created various pieces, including for the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani and the Paris Opera Ballet (Faunes in 2021). In 2017, she was awarded the Fedora Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet.
Credits
Production: L-E-V company
Coproducer: Montpellier Danse Festival ; La Villette – Paris ; Salzburger Festspiele – Autriche ; Sadler’s Wells – Londres ; Julidans – Amsterdam ; Spoleto Festival dei Due
Mondi – Italie ; MART Foundation – USA.
With the support of Orsolina28, Italie
with the soutien of :
20h30 - 45 min
Tickets from 16€ to 50€
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CCN MALANDAIN BALLET BIARRITZ
Les Saisons
Creation 2023 proposed by the Opéra Royal de Versailles
Ballet for 22 dancers
Choreography: Thierry Malandain
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Antonio Guido
Set and costumes Jorge Gallardo
Lighting design: François Menou
Realization costumes: Véronique Murat, Charlotte Margnoux
Set designer: Frédéric Vadé
Props director: Annie Onchalo
Set and prop assistants: Nicolas Rochais, Gorka Arpajou, Félix Vermandé, Raphaël Jeanneret, Christof t’Siolle, Txomin Laborde- Peyre, Maruschka Miramon, Karine Prins, Sandrine Mestas Gleizes, Fanny Sudres and Fantine Goulot
Ballet master: Richard Coudray, Giuseppe Chiavaro, Frederik Deberdt
Choreographic artists: Noé Ballot, Giuditta Banchetti, Julie Bruneau, Raphaël Canet, Clémence Chevillotte, Mickaël Conte, Loan Frantz, Irma Hoffren, Hugo Layer, Guillaume Lillo, Claire Lonchampt, Timothée Mahut, Alessia Peschiulli, Julen Rodríguez Flores, Alejandro Sánchez Bretones, Ismael Turel Yagüe, Yui Uwaha, Chelsey Van Belle, Patricia Velazquez, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Léo Wanner
Two composers, with one rising star to discover, an inspired choreographer and a troupe at their peak come together to celebrate the beauties of nature. A highly anticipated show on a universal theme.
Of course, there are those, celebrated works, of Antonio Vivaldi. But the four seasons were also set to music by his contemporary Giovanni Guido, who made his career in Paris during the regency of Philippe d’Orléans and the reign of Louis XIV. While the former’s immensely popular score has become a well-known classic, the latter’s – based four anonymous poems entitled Les Caractères des Saisons, has remained virtually unknown. Thierry Malandain takes up their twofold challenge with brilliance and sensitivity, in a ballet presented in world première at the Cannes – Côte d’Azur Dance Festival. The idea of bringing these two works together was suggested to him by Laurent Brunner, director of Château de Versailles Spectacles, and by conductor Stefan Plewniak, who had made it the programme of a concert at the Royal Opera two years prior. This idea quickly seduced the author of Noé (2017) and La Pastorale (2019), always eager to put his musical intelligence at the service of humanity and the living. At a time when the degradation of our environment represents a tangible threat, no less than eight seasons here will celebrate nature, a word that Thierry Malandain appropriately recalls is derived from the Latin verb to be born. A promise of renewal, and a reason for hope.
Thierry Malandain
While invoking his “culture of classical ballet”, the choreographer Thierry Malandain has been offering up a current and contemporary look at academic dance for over 35 years – alongside more than 80 ballets. Head of the Biarritz National Choreographic Centre since 1998, he has received numerous awards and international distinctions, including several nominations for the Benois de la Danse. A fine connoisseur of dance history, he was elected to chair the brand new Choreography section of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2019.
Distribution
Spring Antonio Vivaldi
Giuditta Banchetti and Hugo Layer
Noé Ballot, Julie Bruneau, Raphaël Canet, Mickaël Conte, Loan
Frantz, Irma Hoffren, Guillaume Lillo, Claire Lonchampt, Timothée Mahut, Alessia Peschiulli, Julen Rodríguez, Flores, Yui Uwaha, Patricia Velazquez, Chelsey Van Belle, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Léo Wanner.
Spring Giovanni Guido
“Time flies. “ Clémence Chevillotte, Laurine Viel, Alejandro Sánchez Bretones, Ismaël Turel Yagüe
“Dance of the shepherds Hugo Layer
Summer Antonio Vivaldi
Patricia Velazquez and Noé Ballot
Julie Bruneau, Giuditta Banchetti, Raphaël Canet, Clémence Chevillotte, Mickaël Conte, Loan Frantz, Irma Hoffren, Hugo Layer, Guillaume Lillo, Claire Lonchampt, Timothée Mahut, Alessia Peschiulli, Julen Rodríguez, Flores, Alejandro Sánchez Bretones, Ismaël Turel Yagüe, Yui Uwaha, Chelsey Van Belle, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Léo Wanner.
Summer Giovanni Guido
“L’air s’enflamme”. “Zéphire disparaît “Song of the cuckoos
Allegra Vianello and Léo Wanner
“Vole à notre secours O! Adorable Ceres”.
Patricia Velazquez and Hugo Layer
Autumn Antonio Vivaldi
Irma Hoffren and Raphaël Canet
Noé Ballot, Julie Bruneau, Giuditta Banchetti, Clémence Chevillotte, Mickaël Conte, Loan Frantz, Hugo Layer, Guillaume Lillo, Claire Lonchampt, Timothée Mahut, Alessia Peschiulli, Julen Rodríguez, Flores, Alejandro Sánchez Bretones, Ismaël Turel Yagüe, Yui Uwaha, Patricia Velazquez, Chelsey Van Belle, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Léo Wanner.
Autumn Giovanni Guido
“Celebrating the return of Autumn”
Alessia Peschiulli, Yui Uwaha, Guillaume Lillo, Julen Rodríguez
“Allegro”
Patricia Velazquez, Raphaël Canet, Hugo Layer
Winter Antonio Vivaldi
Claire Lonchampt and Mickaël Conte
Noé Ballot, Julie Bruneau, Giuditta Banchetti, Raphaël Canet, Clémence Chevillotte, Loan Frantz, Irma Hoffren, Hugo Layer, Guillaume Lillo, Alessia Peschiulli, Julen Rodríguez, Flores, Alejandro Sánchez Bretones, Ismaël Turel Yagüe, Yui Uwaha, Patricia Velazquez, Allegra Vianello, Laurine Viel, Léo Wanner.
Winter Giovanni Guido
“The frosty season”
Julie Bruneau, Clémence Chevillotte, Loan Frantz, Léo Wanner
“Le cruel Aquilon nous déclare la guerre” (The cruel Aquilon declares war on us)
Claire Lonchampt, Patricia Velazquez, Raphaël Canet, Hugo Layer
“Let the winds rumble”
All the dancers
Credits
Main co-producer : Château de Versailles Spectacles – Opéra Royal de Versailles / Coproduction: Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur France
Coproduction : Festival de Danse Cannes – Côte d’Azur France ; Teatro Victoria Eugenia – Ballet T – Ville
de Donostia San Sebastián ; Opéra de Saint-Etienne ; Theater Bonn – Germany ; Teatro la Fenice – Venice (Italy) ; CCN Malandain Ballet Biarritz / Partners : Teatro de la Maestranza – Sevilla (Spain) ; Teatro Campoamor – Oviedo (Spain) ; Festival Internacional de Músicay Danza de Grenada – Alhambra (Spain) ; Opera de Reims ; Espace Jéliote d’Oloron-Sainte-Marie ; Théâtre Olympia d’Arcachon /
Supported by Fonds de dotation Malandain pour la Danse; Association Amis du Malandain Ballet Biarritz; Carré des Mécènes du Malandain Ballet Biarritz.
World Premiere
World Premiere
20h30 - 1h05
Tickets from 16€ to 50€
For all audience from 6 years old
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Volutes
Creation 2022
Performance for 8 dancers
Choreography: Wendy Cornu
Dancers: Julie Alamelle, Grégory Alliot, Zoé Bernabeu, Anthony Barreri, Lucie Gemon, Louis Nam Le Van Ho, Jeanne Stuart, Lorenzo Vanini
Music: Son Sine : Uncertainly, Antonio Vivaldi : Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) R.608 par James Bowman, Franz Schubert : Auf dem Wasser zu singen, Op 72 par Barbara Bonney, Ibrahim Maalouf : Ritournelle III, Jean-Sébastien Bach : Sonata for viola da Gamba No 3 in G Minor BWV 1029: I.Vivace par Yo-Yo Ma / Chris Thile / Edgar Meyer, Jean-Sébastien Bach : Sonata for viola da Gamba No 3 in G Minor BWV 1029: III. Allegro par Yo-Yo Ma / Chris Thile / Edgar Meyer, Senking : Schacht, Julianna Barwick : Inspirit
Lighting design: Yvan Labasse
Sound: Antoine Perrin
Assistant choreographer: Max Fossati
Costumes design: Julia Didier
In intimate resonance with sound, the energy of bodies composes a score in which movement and music are one. An unprecedented sensory and choreographic exploration.
Watching music and listening to dance: such is the proposal of this audacious piece, selected at the Danse Élargie competition in 2020, organised in partnership with the Hermès Foundation by the Paris Théâtre de la Ville. Based around the core concept of composition, Wendy Cornu transforms the musical score into the primary medium of her choreography. Schubert and Bach, along with the trumpet of jazzman Ibrahim Maalouf, the electro sounds of Son.Sine or the hypnotic vocal loops of Julianna Barwick, become the matrix and structure of these eight dancers’ ‘Volutes’. In addition to musical proposals, the dancers are also given vocal directions which, according to a game of chance evoking the work of Merce Cunningham, they will choose whether or not to follow. Like a living painting or a work in progress, Volutes therefore offers a construction as complex as it is infinitely natural, in which bodies themselves become instruments. Each of these snapshots reconfigures the set along the way, unleashing a spiral of sensations and a wind of freedom to carry the audience away. In perfect equilibrium, this singular musical and chorographical object manages to marry synchronicity and listening, collective actions and individual escapes. Unusual and captivating.
Mouvimento Company – Wendy Cornu
Trained at the CNDC Angers (National Contemporary Dance Centre), Wendy Cornu danced for several companies between 2002 and 2012, including those of Emanuel Gat and Georges Appaix. In 2010, she debuted her first solo, 3Times, before going on to found the Mouvimento company with Julie Amelle, in which both would offer up four pieces, from Ellipses to Effacée(s). In 2017–2018, Wendy Cornu served as artist in residence at the Royaumont Foundation for the Prototype V course, initiating the process of reflection which would ultimately lead to Volutes during this residency.
Credits
Production: Mouvimento 2021-22
Coproducers: Les Hivernales – CDCN Avignon ; Danse Élargie (avec l’aide de la Fondation d’entreprise Hermès) – Paris ; CCN Caen en Normandie – Accueil studio 2021 ; Klap Maison pour la danse – Marseille ; CCN de Nantes ; CCN Ballet de Marseille – Accueil studio 2021 ; Pôle des Arts de la Scène – Friche la Belle de Mai ; DRAC PACA – Aide au projet ; Ville de Marseille ; Département des Bouches-du-Rhône ; Région Sud.
Support: Amphithéâtre de la Verrière – Aix-en-Provence, Marseille Objectif Danse – Friche Belle de Mai, Scène 44 n+n Corsino – Marseille, Fondation Royaumont – Asnières sur Oise, L’Etang des Aulnes, Saint-Martin-de-Crau.
15h - 45min
Tickets : 10€ - Young people under 26 years old : 5€
For all audience from 12 years old
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Lundi 27 novembre à 10h00
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COMPAGNIE NATIONALE NORVÉGIENNE DE DANSE CONTEMPORAINE - CARTE BLANCHE
BIRGET ; Ways to deal, ways to heal
Direction: Annabelle Bonnéry
Creation 2023
Performance for 13 dancers
Concept: Elle Sofe Sara and Joar Nango
Choreography: Elle Sofe Sara
Dancers: Caroline Eckly, Noam Eidelman Shatil, Nadege Kubwayo, Trine Lise Moe, Dawid Lorenc, Adrian Barczak, Aslak Aune Nygård, Ole Martin Meland, Brecht Bovijn, Gaspard Schmitt, Naomi Schouten, Ihsaan de Banya, Mai Lisa Guinoo
Set design: Joar Nango
Music: Ànndaris Rimpi
Lighting design: Arne Kambestad
Dramaturgy: Thomas Schaupp
Research: Ravdna Turi Henriksen
Costumes: Indrani Balgobin
Seeking to invoke the resilience of a people historically mistreated, BIRGET calls for community. A sensitive and delicate experience, served by excellent performers.
For Annabelle Bonnéry, artistic director of Carte Blanche, dance is not just a means through which creativity may be expressed. It is also a place for artists to engage with the social issues of our modern world. This is evidenced by the Norwegian National Contemporary-Dance Company’s first collaboration with choreographer Elle Sofe Sara and scenographer Joar Nango. Of Sámi origin, both question the colonial heritage and attitude of the Norwegian State towards these long-discriminated indigenous populations. In this respect, the piece’s title – Birget – is, in itself, a declaration of intent, as this expression means “to face up to and survive in a changing environment” in the Sámi language. And this is exactly what those who, today, dare to claim their culture and identity have done for generations. However, this piece is not limited to activism: through the virtuoso bodies of the 13 international dancers who make up the troupe, it offers the experimentation of an enhanced rite of collective reconciliation and healing. Storytelling, a vital part of the culture of the nomadic peoples of the Far North, constitutes the fabric of what is as much an artistic gesture as a political act of fraternity.
Carte Blanche, Elle Sofe Sara, Joar Nango
Carte Blanche, founded in 1989 and under the artistic direction of Annabelle Bonnéry since 2018, is one of the most internationally represented Scandinavian companies. Choreographer and film director Elle Sofe is co-founder of DÁIDDADÁLLU, a collective of contemporary Sámi indigenous artists. As for the Sámi visual artist Joar Nango, he co-founded the architectural collective Felleskapsprosjektet and was nominated by Norsk Form as Young Architect of the Year in 2012. Nango is a guest artist for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Credits
Coproducer The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet ; Bergen International Festival ; Nordic Next ; BIT Teatergarasjen
French Premiere
French Premiere
18h - 1h
Tickets from 11€ to 28€
For all audience
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PROJECTION “BIRGET : portrait d’un processus de création”
Film documentaire de Andreas Leonardsen SAM 25 NOV à 10h30, Palais des Festivals (entrée libre)
ALEXANDER VANTOURNHOUT
Through the Grapevine
Creation 2020
Performance for 2 dancers
Concept and choreography: Alexander Vantournhout
Dancers: Axel Guérin & Alexander Vantournhout
Assistant choreograhy: Emmi Väisänen
Original music: Andrea Belfi
Dramaturgy: Rudi Laermans
Lighting design: Caroline Mathieu
Lights: Harry Cole
Technical management: Rinus Samyn
Costumes: Anne-Catherine Kunz
Set design: Bjorn Verlinde
Production : Barbara Falter & Kiki Verschueren
Technique : Bram Vandeghinste & Rinus Samyn
Communication : Aïda Gabriëls
A pas de deux? Yes, but absolutely singular. Because it features two men with trained yet imperfect bodies, playing on their differences – while we do the same. Simply joyous!
Tall and slender, they both have the same size but not the same morphology. Though trained dancers, they do not pretend to be virtuosos. Far from standard, virtual or instagrammed aesthetics, Axel Guérin and Alexander Vantournhout have chosen, precisely, to show the spontaneous and sometimes funny beauty of the “human animal” through this subtly funny duo. Movement after movement, through a series of reciprocal contracts and support, they assist one another in their search for balance. A rehabilitated touch becomes the central theme of the performance and the ultimate instrument through which to achieve harmony. Unlike the pas de deux of the repertoire, here even the solos created hand in hand, in a constant back and forth between the two performers. Meanwhile, symmetry plays out as much vertically, following the classic concept of elevation, as on a horizontal or diagonal axis, creating confusing interlocking and unexpected shapes … From the forefront, where this fraternal joust begins, scenography and light guide the audience’s eye to the vanishing point of the dance floor, cut into a trapezoid, while the percussion orchestrated by Andrea Belfi organically links sound and movement. Between symmetry and dissonance, fusion and parity: a new way of being two.
Alexander Vantournhout
A choreographer and performer born in Brussels, Alexander Vantournhout studied contemporary dance at the P.A.R.T.S. school, directed by Anne Teresa de Kersmaecker, and followed the curriculum of the ESAC Higher School of Circus Arts. Nourished by these two aesthetics, he has been creating pieces since 2014 – including the notable Aneckxander – at the frontiers of several art forms and which explore the fields of the possible, both physically and kinetically, from their constraints.
Credits
Production: Not Standing (ASBL)
Coproducer: Centre d’art VIERNULVIER, Gand (BE), PERPLX, Marke (BE), CENTQUATRE, Paris (FR), Cirque-théâtre Elbeuf (FR), Subsistances, Lyon (FR), Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU), MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard (FR), Les Hivernales CDCN, Avignon (FR), Malpertuis, Tielt (BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Théâtres des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan (FR), Théâtre de l’Arsenal, Val-de-Reuil (FR)
Residences : les ballets C de la B, Gand (BE), Centre d’art VIERNULVIER, Gand (BE), STUK, Louvain (BE), Subsistances, Lyon (FR), Wood Cube, Roulers (BE), Workspacebrussels, Bruxelles (BE)
Rsidences cancelled (COVID-19) : Arts Printing House, Vilnius (LT) Oerol, Ter Schelling (NL), Le Gymnase CDCN, Roubaix (FR), Grand Théâtre, Groningen (NL)
With the support from Flemish authorities. Alexander Vantournhout is artist in residence au Centre d’art VIERNULVIER in Gand and in PERPLX (Marke), associate artist with CENTQUATRE Paris and Cirque-théâtre Elbeuf. He is cultural ambassador for the city of Roulers. Alexander Vantournhout is support by Fondation BNP Paribas for the development of its projects.
Diffusion: Frans Brood Productions
Company manager: Esther Maas
Production direction: Aïda Gabriëls
Photography: Bart Grietens
Première mondiale
Première mondiale
20h - 55 min
Tickets from 10€ to 35€
For all audience from 12 years old
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B.DANCE
ALICE
Creation 2021
Performance for 13 dancers
Choreographer: Po-Cheng Tsai
Avec Chien-Chih CHANG, Li-An LO, Chen-Ning CHANG, Siang-Fu ZENG, Ho-Chien CHANG, Yu-Hung WANG, Hsing TSENG, Yi-Ru CHENG, Chen-Yu LIAO, Shu-Han YEH, Chieh-Wen LIU, Ming-Hsuan LIU, Ming-Fen WU
Music: Rockid Lee
Lighting design: Otto Chang
Video design: Po-Chih Chang
In Po-Cheng Tsai’s Wonderland, Lewis Carroll’s universe blends with East Asian spirituality. A refined and poetic show, with a tale for all.
How can a classic of Anglo-Saxon children’s literature be transformed into a choreographic piece that is both universal and perfectly original? The answer lies in this dreamlike ballet, born in 2021 from the collaboration between the Taiwanese B.Dance company and its inspired choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai, with the Tanz Lucerner Theatre directed by Kathleen McNurney. Upon sound designer Rockid Lee’s New Age score, classical ballet, contemporary movements, hip-hop and jazz combine with tai chi, martial arts, kung fu and even Chinese folk dance. The scenography itself is a journey, evoking a labyrinth of mirrors as well as black-ink calligraphy, or psychedelic video projections by Po-Chih Chang. A host of particularly sumptuous costumes add to the enchantment while, like the heroine, the viewer is led from surprise to surprise in this universe bathed in changing lights, unlike anything they have ever seen before. To their impeccable technical mastery, the dancers add a hint of mystery, transforming this perfectly crafted choreography into a real exploration of the human soul. Both theatrical and visual, psychological and very physical, ALICE is a veritable success and a fascinating discovery – not to be missed!
Po-cheng Tsai, B. Dance
After graduating from Taipei University of the Arts in 2009, Po-Cheng Tsai created the B.Dance company in 2014, developing a unique style which combines the movements of Asian tradition with a Western classical and contemporary vocabulary. Recognised in many international competitions, his pieces are represented worldwide, including in France at the Avignon Festival. He has also choreographed for several foreign companies, including Gauthier Dance and La Veronal. In 2018, he was named choreographer of the year by Tanz magazine.
Crédits
Production : Chia-Fang Sun
Supports : TAIWAN TOP Performing Arts Group et Ministère de la culture de Taïwan
20h30 - 1h25 with intermission
Tickets from 16€ to 28€
For all audience from 5 years old
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COMPANIA PAULA COMITRE
Alegorías (El limite y sus mapas)
Creation 2022
Original idea: Paula Comitre
Guest dancer and choreography contemporary dance: Lorena Nogal
Guitar: Juan Campallo
Percussion: Rafael Heredia
Singer: Tomas de Perrate
Direction: Tanya Beyeler
Music and direction: Jesús Torres
Lighting design: Bernat Jansá
Sound: Gaspar Leal
Transposed into movement, the philosophical opposition between the perceptible and the intelligible infuses, in symbiosis with a flamenco soul, an incandescent dialectic with two bodies.
“Is everything we see real? Or is our world nothing more than appearance?” As its tagline suggests, this duo, inspired by allegory, questions “the limit and its maps”. The choreographer Paula Comitre, rising star of flamenco, performs alongside Lorena Nogal, from the IT Dansa company and Marcos Mauro’s La Veronal collective. The contrast of these two personalities – the first luminous and fiery, the second endowed with sharp precision – and the power of their respective movements electrify a scenography under constant tension. Like the sheet that covers the two dancers’ bodies in the preamble, an authentic flamenco resonates herein, supported by the guitarist Juan Campallo, the singing of Tomas de Perrate and the effective drums of Rafael Heredia. The age-old codes of dance, from the cracking of the feet to the subtle inflections of the hands, come together in a passionate flow that carries these artists, united by the same generous passion, right through the final scene. Struck by this vital impulse, we travel in music and dance to the heart of Andalusia and other inspiring Latin, Greek or Cuban cultures. Exceeding our limits, to better draw our maps.
Paula Comitre
After studying at the Conservatory of Seville, this dancer and choreographer – born in 1994 – formed part of the Andalusian Flamenco Ballet until 2016. She then went on to perform for choreographers Rafaela Carrasco and David Coria, dancing in the plays Nacida Sombra, El Encuentro and Fandango! Awarded Best Newcomer 2020 at the Festivals of Jerez and Seville for her first piece, the solo Camara Abierta, she premièred Cuerpo Nombrados in 2021 at the Madrid flamenco festival, followed by Alegorias in 2022 at the Chaillot National Theatre in Paris.
Credits
Production: Arte y Movimiento produccionnes SL
Coproducer: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la danse
Pictures @Alain Scherer
South Region Premiere
South Region Premiere
18h00 - 1h10
Tickets from 11€ to 28€
For all audience
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KOR’SIA
Mont Ventoux
Creation 2023
Winner of the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Dance 2023
Performance for 8 dancers
Artistic direction: Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa
Choreography: Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa with the dancers
With: Benoît Couchot, Angela Dematte, Samuel Dilkes, Emilie Leriche, Helena Olmedo, Andrew Scott, Dovydas Strimaitis et Ana Van Tendeloo.
Dramaturgy: Agnes Lopez Rio
Original music: Alejandro da Rocha
Set design: Amber Vandenhoeck with Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa
Costume design and creative direction: Luca Guarini in collaboration with Aitor Goikoetxea, Levi’s (denim) Rombaut (shoes)
Lighting design: Amber Vandenhoeck with Mattia Russo and Antonio de Rosa
Technical management: Meritxell Cabanas
It is through dance and, whether physical or mental, that we will achieve the transition to a better world. As proof, here we have a committed and innovative creation awarded the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Dance 2023.
On 26 April 1336, Petrarch began his ascent of Mont Ventoux. From this allegorical experience, the Tuscan poet returned determined to renounce artificial pleasures, for the benefit of his spiritual life. For choreographers Mattia Russo and Antonio De Rosa, seven centuries later, this lesson has lost none of its acuity. In view of the current degradation of our environment and coexistence, the writer’s injunction to abandon old patterns of thought or conduct has even become a planetary emergency. To change the paradigm, rediscover the founding values of our civilisation, carry out philanthropic actions together and put humanity and nature back in the spotlight, the Kor’sia collective has decided to climb this mountain once again. Nine international performers, all under the age of 35, serve as the inspired actors in this symbolic journey.
Dance, along with scenography and its landscapes, both lunar and natural, are in perpetual movement. Between reality and fiction, lights draw a connected space, where anything becomes possible. Recreating Renaissance-inspired harmonies and electronic sounds, the sound space imagined by young composer Alejandro Da Rocha opens the door to a promising future.
Collectif Kor’sia
Based in Madrid, this collective was founded by Mattia Russo and Antonio De Rosa, in collaboration with Giuseppe Dagostino and Agnès López-Río.
Considering the arts – and more precisely the arts of movement – as the only representations capable of transmitting what underlies our societies, he creates artistic devices around the body, offering up a new route to the ways of being and being in the world.
Among their latest releases, GISELLE, IGRA (Jeux) and Velasquez take an original look at classical culture and its transmission.
Credits
Production Gabriel Blanco and Paola Villegas (Spectare)
Support: Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center (Espagne) ; Tanzplattform Rhein Main (Allemagne) ;Hessisches Staatsballet (Germany); Roma Europa Festival (Italie ) ; The Watermill Center (Etats-Unis); Tanz Bozen Bolzano Danza (Italie), Grec Festival – Barcelona Festival (Espagne); Tero Saarinen Company (Finlande); Istituto Italiano di Cultura de Madrid (Espagne); OperaEstate Festival Veneto (Italie).
French Premiere
French Premiere
20h30 - 1h10
Tickets from 11€ to 28€
For all audience
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COMPAGNIE BURNOUT / JANN GALLOIS
In Situ
Creation 2023
Performance 4 dancers
Choreography: Jann Gallois
Dancers: Juliette Bolzer, José Meireles, Serena Pedrotti, Erwan Tallonneau alias Bboy R-One
Music: Charles Amblard
Costumes: Jann Gallois
Regard complice : Frédéric Le Van & Laureline Richard
This show, offered to all, is presented in the public space of Cannes. In a generous and stimulating closeness with passers-by, rediscovering the joy of being together.
Thanks to their great originality and sensitivity, each of Jann Gallois’ pieces hit the mark – and this eleventh opus is no exception. This artist, introduced to hip-hop dance in the streets as a teenager, returned to the roots of her art after long months of isolation due to the pandemic. She has created In Situ as close as possible to her audience, in this public space where – long before the existence of dedicated venues – the first forms of representation were born. The goal? To bring a suspended moment that breaks the routine of everyday life to the people, where they are. The piece, designed to be visible to all, unfolds in interaction with its specific environment. Imposing one’s presence outside of the marked spaces of the theatre stage, creating the balance between place, movement and perception, however, must involve the usual components of creation. To the music of Charles Amblard, dancers invite us to reconnect with “being together”, while awakening a joy that burns within each of us.
Jann Gallois
Since her first solo P=mg in 2013, the winner of multiple awards, Jann Gallois has distinguished herself with a choreographic writing nourished by hip-hop, contemporary dance and a constant concern for innovation, in both her forms and in the themes addressed. With her company BurnOut, founded in 2012, she has choreographed a dozen pieces, including the recent releases Mandala (2021) and Imperfecto (2022). She is currently an associate artist at the Beauvaisis Theatre, the Beauvais Scène Nationale Theatre and at the Créteil Maison des Arts.
Credits
Production Compagnie BurnOut
Support: MAC – Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil ; Théâtre du Beauvaisis – scène nationale de Beauvais ; L’Envolée – Pôle Régional Culturel du Val Briard ; Le Cratère – scène nationale d’Alès ; La Comédie – scène nationale de Clermont-Ferrand ; Le Phare – Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Normandie / direction Fouad Boussouf, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio
Jann Gallois | Cie Burnout receives support from DRAC Île-de-France for agreement – Ministère de la Culture, Région Île-de-France under the artistic permanence and Fondation BNP PARIBAS.
