La complainte du progrès
1997
Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture , CNC - Images de la culture
Video producer : Heure d'été productions ; Qwazi Qwazi film ; Arte
La complainte du progrès
1997
Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture , CNC - Images de la culture
Video producer : Heure d'été productions ; Qwazi Qwazi film ; Arte
La complainte du progrès
With its gentle and implacable irony, Boris Vian’s La Complainte du progrès, seen by ALIS (Dominique Soria, Pierre Fourny), immerses us in a wacky universe, where reality never ceases to slip into the incongruous, the absurd and even an unsettling strangeness. A couple meticulously occupied by various activities (serving themselves coffee, shaving, dressing, preparing a meal, doing the laundry) sees its universe invaded by the repeated onslaughts of progress.
Claudio Pazienza’s film is tidy and energetic: the visual pirouettes that mark the damaging effects of progress, its regrettable and funny consequences, lead us slowly to the final breakdown. Everything falls apart. Washbasins overflow, bodies get hurt, and the most innocuous gestures capture our full attention. And, when, with a simple blow of a rolling pin, coloured letters appear, we tell ourselves that magic has scant regard for the sophisticated machines that domesticate our reality.
Source : Fabienne Arvers
La complainte du progrès
Artistic direction / Conception : ALIS (Dominique Soria, Pierre Fourny)
Interpretation : Monique et Serge Cremer
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Heure d'été productions, Qwazi Qwazi film, Arte, ministère de la Culture (DMD), ministère des Affaires étrangères, Procirep
One dance, one song
The idea has all it takes to please: with the complicity of a director, a choreographer plays along by masterfully setting to dance a melody taken from the repertoire of French song, where, most often, poetry rhymes with humour and tenderness. While none of these dances resembles a video-clip supposed to illustrate the song, they are always an original choreographic proposal. A contemporary version of the old “chansons de geste” (French epic poems), they allow access, in just a few minutes, to the highly diversified universes of the choreographers. Take a song, its verses and its chorus, the interpreter’s tone of voice, the subject or the atmosphere evoked, and see what images, colours, figures and rhythms dance could give them.
Source : Fabienne Arvers
The committed artist
In all the arts and here especially in dance, the artist sometimes creates to defend a cause, to denounce a fact, to disturb, to shock. Here is a panorama of some "committed" choreographic creations.
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
[1970-2018] Neoclassical developments: They spread worldwide, as well as having multiple repertoires and dialogues with contemporary dance.
In the 1970s, artists’ drive towards a new classic had been ongoing for more than a half century and several generations had already formed since the Russian Ballets. As the years went by, everyone defended or defends classical dance as innovative, unique, connected to the other arts and the preoccupations of its time.
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
Why do I dance ?
Strange works
Unconventional contemporary dance shows which reinvent the rapport to the stage.
Artistic Collaborations
Panorama of different artistic collaborations, from « couples » of choreographers to creations involving musicians or plasticians
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
Dance and performance
Here is a sample of extracts illustrating burlesque figures in Performances.
The Dance Biennale
Female / male
A walk between different conceptions and receptions of genres in different styles and eras of dance.
Hand dances
This parcours presents different video extracts in which hands are the center of the mouvement.
Contemporary Italian Dance : the 2000s
Panorama of contemporary dance practices in Italy during the 2000s.
The “Nouvelle Danse Française” of the 1980s
In France, at the beginning of the 1980s, a generation of young people took possession of the dancing body to sketch out their unique take on the world.
Body and conflicts
A look on the bonds which appear to emerge between the dancing body and the world considered as a living organism.
The national choreographic centres
When reality breaks in
Dancing bodies
Focus on the variety of bodies offered by contemporary dance and how to show these bodies: from complete nudity to the body completely hidden or covered.
Dance and percussion
Découvrez de quelles manières ont collaboré chorégraphes et éléments percussifs.
Dance at the crossroad of the arts
Some shows are the meeting place of different trades. Here is a preview of some shows where the arts intersect on the stage of a choreographic piece.