Dance with me
2010 - Director : Carlès, James
Choreographer(s) : Carlès, James (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la Danse de Lyon , Compagnie James Carlès - Solis de James Carlès
Video producer : Carlès, James
Dance with me
2010 - Director : Carlès, James
Choreographer(s) : Carlès, James (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la Danse de Lyon , Compagnie James Carlès - Solis de James Carlès
Video producer : Carlès, James
Dance with me
THE PROJECT
The project “Dances with me” is an original form in Concert/Ball/Show. The choreographer James Carlès and his company join a group of musicians - jazz and associated disciplines and invite dancers/choreographers of reputation in various styles of popular dances, in order to transmit rudiments of popular dance to the public. These small dances develop and become with the wire of the evening a great collective dance where one shares in the joy and simplicity the pleasure of being together without any distinction of age, sex, of social class, of origin...
CREDITS
Choreography James Carlès - Duration variable
Interpreters: dancers and choreographers, associated with the public
Musicians: a group of musicians associated jazz and disciplines
Carlès, James
James Carles is a choreographer, researcher and lecturer. He received initial training in dance and music of Africa and its Diaspora and then trained with the great names of modern dance in New York and London mainly. Since 1992, he hired an artistic and analytical approach that explores the “places junctions” between the dances, rhythms and philosophies of Africa and its Diaspora with technical and western thoughts frames. To date, his company’s directory contains more than fifty pieces of his own creation and authors like Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Asadata Dafora, Geraldine Armstrong, Rick Odums, Wayne Barbaste, Carolyn Carlson, Robyn Orlin, etc.
Dancer soloist and outstanding performer, James Carles was performer and artistic collaborator for not only numerous “all music” ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, through jazz; but also choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson, Robyn Orlin, Rui Horta, Myriam Naisy, etc.
Artist associated with Astrada- Jazz In Marciac 2012-2014, research associate in the laboratory of the University LLA Créatis Jean Jaures Toulouse, James Carles is particularly invests in heritage projects for diversity and diffusion of choreographic culture. He is also founder and artistic director of the festival “Dances and Black Continents”.
Carlès, James
Since 2016, James Carlès has made the choice to make available to the public a selection of its videos.
Danse avec moi
Choreography : James Carlès
Interpretation : Danseurs et chorégraphes, associés au public
Live music : Musiciens : un groupe de musiciens jazz et disciplines associés
Duration : Durée variable
Western classical dance enters the modernity of the 20th century: The Ballets russes and the Ballets suédois
If the 19th century is that of romanticism, the entry into the new century is synonymous of modernity! It was a few decades later that it would be assigned, a posteriori, the name of “neo-classical”.
James Carlès
Bagouet Collection
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.
La part des femmes, une traversée numérique
Qudus Onikeku - Reclaim a forgotten memory
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
DANCE AND DIGITAL ARTS
Black Dance
Why do I dance ?
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.
Round dance
Presentation of the Round’s figure in choreography.
The Dance Biennale
Female / male
A walk between different conceptions and receptions of genres in different styles and eras of dance.
Dance and visual arts
Dance and visual arts have often been inspiring for each other and have influenced each other. This Parcours can not address all the forms of their relations; he only tries to show the importance of plastic creation in some choreographies.