Teaser of  Sympathetic magic

To celebrate the release of Peter von Poehl’s fourth album, SYMPATHETIC MAGIC, Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux return to the stage. They will continue their collaboration on a new danced concert which interweaves the melodic lines of the pop singer’s songs and the poetics of the two choreographers’ dancing. A crystalline voice, bursts of images, glints of movements, in a shimmering, flickering piece ... 

Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux founded the Compagnie FATTOUMI/ LAMOUREUX in 1988. Their first work Husaïs was awarded the prize for best first piece at the Bagnolet International Choreographic Competition in 1990, then their trio Après-midi  received the “New Talents” prize from the SACD in 1991. These two  pieces placed them as leaders of the new generation of contemporary  choreographers and brought them international renown.

A space for research whose source is the intermingling of their individual features.
  From piece to piece, they mine the intrinsic intelligence of the body,  its power to reveal meaning, which can also be thought as a part of  movement.
  Several other important pieces were created in the same vein as Husaïs: Si loin que l’on aille (at the Théâtre de la Bastille and the Théâtre de la Ville, 1992); Fiesta (commissioned by the Avignon Festival, 1992); Asile Poétique (at the Théâtre de la Ville, 2000) based on texts by the poet Antonio Ramos Rosa; Wasla, ce qui relie… (at the Lyon Dance Biennial, 1998); Vita Nova (at the Grande Halle de la Villette, 2000) with the 11th graduating class of the National Center for Circus Arts.
  These pieces show choreographic work linked to the ideas of mastery/  nonmastery, strength/ fragility, minimalism/ performance, a dance whose  expressive weight is charged by a “graphic energy.”

They were appointed directors of the CCN of Caen/  Basse-Normandie in 2004, where they continued their work with pieces  focusing on societal issues.
  These works were La Madâ’a (at the Arsenal in Metz, 2004) with the Joubran brothers, Palestinian virtuosi on the oud; Pièze (a “pressure measurement”) and La danse de Pièze  (at the Festival Dialogue de corps, Ouagadougou, 2006 and the Théâtre  de la Bastille), about the idea of “homosensuality” in the Arab-Muslim  world; Just to dance… (the Espace des Arts in Chalon-sur-Saône, 2010), a piece about the idea of “creolization” developed by Édouard Glissant; MANTA,  a solo created at the Montpellier Festival in 2009 and performed on  tour (Tokyo, Séoul, Berlin, Tunis, Brussels, Stockholm, Oslo), based on  the problem inherent in wearing the niqab; Lost in burqa, (at  the Festival danse d’ailleurs, 2011) a performance for 8 dancers, based  on the “clothing-sculptures” by the Moroccan plastician Majida Khattari;  Masculines (at the Arsenal de Metz, 2013) and on the representations of the feminine on both sides of the Mediterranean.

They are reactivating a choreographic research recharging itself with the expressive and poetic potential of dance.
Une douce imprudence co-signed with Thierry Thieû Niang (at the  Festival Ardanthé 2013, and the Théâtre National de Chaillot, 2014) on  the idea of “Care”; Waves, a commission for the Swedish opera  company NorrlandsOperan and its symphony orchestra, under the auspices  of Umeå 2014, European cultural capital, for which they are associated  with the Swedish singer and composer Peter von Poehl.

They also chose to step outside theatres to work in situ in other reactive contexts.
  In February 2009, they created the performance Stèles as part of a special “Nocturne”, a commission from the Louvre Museum.
  In 2008 they created Promenade at the Grand Palais, imagining a dialogue with the monumental sculptures of Richard Serra.
  In January 2012 they created Circle, inviting the audience into  the center of a circular structure where dance goes wild with the  massed collective energy of 26 professional and amateur dancers.
  In 2013, as part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival they stepped  inside the exhibition “Summer at the water’s edge” at the Beaux-Arts  Museum of Caen for a choreographic Flânerie (wandering).

Creation of the Festival Danse d’Ailleurs (Dance from Elsewhere) (2005)
  Beginning in 2005, they founded the Festival Danse d’Ailleurs whose  vocation is to put back into perspective the idea of universalism while  questioning referent frameworks for modernity in art, relating to  cultural horizons.
  The first four editions focused on artists from the vast, diverse  African continent and brought international recognition to the event,  and the following editions opened as far as Asia, linking with the Hot  Summer Festival in Kyoto, Japan.

Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux are fully committed to the promotion and the defense of choreographic art.
  From 2001 to 2004, Héla Fattoumi was the dance vice president of the  SACD (Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques). She was also in  charge of programming the section called ”Vif du sujet” at the Avignon  Festival.
  From 2006 – 2008, she was the President of the ACCN (Association of the  National Choreographic Centers). From 2010 – 2013 Éric Lamoureux took  over the Presidency; he is now the vice president.
  From 2013 to 2015, Héla Fattoumi has been the president delegated to long-term planning at the SYNDEAC.

In March 2015 Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux were named  Directors of the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté in  Belfort, for which they are developing their VIADANSE project.

Peter von Poehl, born March 31, 1972 in Malmö, Sweden. In the early 2000s, von Poehl collaborated extensively with Bertrand Burgalat and his Paris label Tricatel, notably on writer Michel Houellebecq's album Présence humaine (2000). Over the next years, he lended his services to artist such as Alain Chamfort, Depeche Mode and Burgalat himself. When the label's recording studio in Paris closed, von Poehl moved to Berlin, while continuing to produce records for other artists, many of them part of the French music scene, such as Doriand (Le grand bain, 2004), Lio (Dites au prince charmant, 2005), Florian Horwath (We Are All Gold, 2005), Vincent Delerm (Les piqûres d'araignée, 2006), Marie Modiano (Outland, 2008).

Peter von Poehl's first solo album (Going To Where The Tea Trees Are) was released in 2006 by French label Tôt ou Tard, followed by indie labels around the world, such as Bella Union (UK), World's Fair (US), Bonnier Amigo (Swe) and Speak n' Spell (AUS). The album was greeted by critical acclaim and the featuring of several songs, notably The Story Of The Impossible in cinema and advertising helped introduce von Poehl's music to a large audience. The album was followed by extensive touring, including supporting artists such as AIR, St Vincent, Phoenix and Brian Wilson.

Follow up May Day (Tôt ou Tard/PIAS) was released in 2009. Just as von Poehl's debut, it was co-produced with Christoffer Lundquist and recorded at AGM in Vallarum in the south of Sweden. Again extensive touring followed the release, headlining and sharing the bill with artists such as Ben Harper, Wild Beasts and Peter Doherty. He also represented Sweden at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Big Issues Printed Small, von Poehl's third studio album was released in France, Belgium and Switzerland in 2013 on v Poehl's own label (Nest & Sound). In close collaboration with arranger Martin Hederos, the album was based on a written score and developed for different orchestral outfits with sometimes as many as 40 musicians on stage. After a nearly four years absence as a recording artist, both the musical press and the audience has welcomed warmly von Poehl's return to the front of the stage.

Peter von Poehl has equally composed soundtracks for films, such as Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyté's already cult classic Vanishing Waves (2012) and Valerie Donzelli's Main Dans La Main (2012), the highly awaited follow-up of Declaration Of War (2011), which also featured music by von Poehl. He is currently writing the score for cinematographer Alain Choquart's debut as a director (Lady Grey) with among others Peter Saarsgaard and Emilie Mortimer in the leading roles. V Poehl has equally been commissioned by Norrlandsoperan (Umeå European cultural capital 2014) to write the music for a ballet. The piece, which will premiere in November 2014, features v Poehl on electric guitar, a pile of stomp boxes along with a 54-piece symphony orchestra.

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The Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté in Belfort (CCNFCB) is a space dedicated to contemporary creation. The French CCN label (National Choreographic Center) was established in 1984.

Currently there are 19 of these National Choreographic Centers in France.

Since March 2015, the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté in Belfort has been directed by Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux, for which they created the project VIADANSE. 

Their project VIADANSE is laid in the prospect of a 3rd generation choregraphic center, revolving around a dynamic concept highlighting the circulation of projects and the building of networks, from Franche-Comté to Burgundy ; from the Grand Est to Switzerland and Europe.