Valse en trois temps
2010
Choreographer(s) : Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)
Present in collection(s): Christian et François Ben Aïm
Video producer : CFB 451
Valse en trois temps
2010
Choreographer(s) : Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)
Present in collection(s): Christian et François Ben Aïm
Video producer : CFB 451
Valse en trois temps
A solo, a duet, a trio. Graceful and dazzling, this piece showcases a generous, jubilant writing. In three distinct musical movements, the dancers explore their relationships to self and others, sharing their delight in play and dance.
Solo
A break out of time, some great classical music melodies, the mind wanders, soars to the sound of the notes, and is carried away by the body.
Duo
False pretences are shattered in this playful duel in which gentle embraces compete with full body contact.
Trio
A ball in the slums, like a release, where the joyful passion for life is exhaled as the dancers reel around!
Ben Aïm, Christian & François
For more than twenty years, Christian and François BEN AÏM have been building a work rich of poetry and high standards, fraternal bond and singularity.
At the end of a multidisciplinary training combining dance, physical theater and circus, each one follows his path as a performer, then the two brothers meet to create À l’abri du regard des hommes, avant d’aller mourir ailleurs, a hybrid dance-theater piece which marks the beginning of their collaboration in 1997. Twenty pieces will follow which anchor their fieldwork as much as they travel internationally. They draw their inspiration from literary, musical and pictorial sources, and intimately mixing artistic disciplines on the stage : En plein coeur (2006), Valse (2010), The Ogresse on archives and her dog (2011), Lightness of Storms (2014), Burn, rebellious hearts (2017), Mirages — boreal souls (2018), Arise (2019), JESTS (2021).
Marked by an uncompromising energy, summoning the performer to an intimate relationship with movement, the dance of the BEN AÏM brothers offers, beyond a speech, an experience, a "crossing" that the dancer performs in front of our eyes, that he lives each time with the sincerity of a full and entire presence.
With this demanding writing comes an art of composition which gives birth to the stage an imagination borrowing from dreams, from the marvelous of the tale and from invisible realities. Through a subtle effect of empathy, the audience enters an unstable world, where everything is the object of poetic questioning - a world to be experienced together.
Calendar of creations
2021
2019
Snapshots - A series femal solos
2018
2017
Brûlent nos coeurs insoumis (Burn, rebellious hearts)
2016
Peuplé, dépeuplé (Inhabited, uninhabited)
2014
2013
La forêt ébouriffée (The Dense Forest)
2011
L'Ogresse des archives et son chien
2010
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut encore changer
2001
La Frontera
1999
L'enfant du miroir
1998
L'homme rapaillé
1997
A l'abri du regard des hommes, avant d'aller mourir ailleurs
Valse en trois temps
Artistic direction / Conception : Christian et François Ben Aïm
Choreography : Christian et François Ben Aïm
Interpretation : Solo Aurélie Berland Duo Anne Foucher, Christian Ben Aïm, Trio Aurélie Berland, Anne Foucher, François Ben Aïm
Original music : Solo Grands airs de Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Ravel, Tchaïkovski, Mozart, Mahler, Liszt, Vivaldi Duo Xploding Plastix, Sports, not heavy crime Trio The Tiger Lillies, Finale / Terrible / Sailors / Reap what you sow / Le Havre / Fisheads
Additionnal music : Jean-Baptiste Sabiani (écriture musicale sur les musiques originales)
Lights : Laurent Patissier, Pierre Galais
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