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2011 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Prunenec, Sylvain (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Ouvrez !
2011 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Prunenec, Sylvain (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
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Aperitif dances
« During the 14th century, the aperitif was considered a medicinal beverage “that opened the pores, the channels, the vessels”. I liked this definition from the dictionary where the terms relate to channels, apertures that allow the body to exchange — substances, gas, liquid, electricity — that are necessary for survival, and that, at the same time, excite the imagination. The pores of the skin become maritime ports, the limbic system (or spinal) becomes a channel of the sea carrying vessels to improbable destinations. Physiological considerations and imagination harmonize, respond to each other, segue into each other. The duo is created with a relay between two dancers, one developing the dance initiated by the other. This dance unfolds in a delightfully burlesque way; it develops from a variety of proposals that are the staring point for the choreographical score. »
Sylvain Prunenec
Updating: September 2011
Prunenec, Sylvain
A graduate of the Paris Conservatoire who has been performing since 1985, Sylvain Prunenec began developing his own projects in 1995 with his company, l'Association du 48. For him, collaborations with artists from other fields, particularly musicians (Françoise Rivalland, Fred Bigot alias Electronicat, Manuel Coursin, Sébastien Roux) and writers (Célia Houdart, Mathieu Riboulet), are opportunities for him to question and consider his own dance practice and the place of the performer in the process of creation and presentation.
Between 2000 and 2005, during travels and residencies in several African countries, he forged strong links with African artists, particularly the Adugna company and Faustin Linyekula's Studios Kabako, links which led to an exchange project between Ethiopia, the Congo and France: "KinAddis / Chantiers chorégraphiques", 2004-2005.
More recently, in response to a commission from the Concordan(s)e festival, he collaborated with author Mathieu Riboulet on a duet project “Jetés dehors”, which was first performed in April 2010.
During the 2008-2009 season in residence at the Théâtre de Vanves (Ile-de-France), “Ouvrez!” marked the beginning of a new and ongoing stage in his work, which currently takes the form of a triptych of solos (two of which already existed: "Love me, love me, love me" and "Psycho Killer", 2009), on the themes of love, criminal impulse and sexual ecstasy. This project, under the overall title of "Gare!", was first performed at the Centre National de la Danse Contemporaine (CNDC), Angers in January 2011.
In addition to his performances and improvisations, whether outdoors or in arts venues ("Effroi électrique", "Glacial Topo", "A point", "Station 1"...), Sylvain Prunenec teaches regularly at the CNDC, Angers, where he trains choreographic artists (FAC course).
Further information: Company website
Digital resources by the CND Médiathèque
http://mediatheque.cnd.fr/spip.php?page=mediatheque-numerique-ressource&id=PHO00003856
http://mediatheque.cnd.fr/spip.php?page=mediatheque-numerique-ressource&id=PHO00003845
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
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Choreography : Sylvain Prunenec
Interpretation : Sylvain Prunenec, Kerem Gelebek
Original music : Manuel Coursin, Michel Guillet
Lights : Erik Houllier
Duration : 40 minutes
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
DANCE AND DIGITAL ARTS
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
The Dance Biennale
Hand dances
This parcours presents different video extracts in which hands are the center of the mouvement.
Arts of motion
Generally associated with circus arts, here is a Journey that will take you on a stroll through different artists from this world.
Contemporary techniques
This Parcours questions the idea that contemporary dance has multiples techniques. Different shows car reveal or give an idea about the different modes of contemporary dancer’s formations.
Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis
Vlovajobpru company
40 years of dance and music
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.