Elle semelle de quoi ?
2001 - Director : Bouvier, Mathieu
Choreographer(s) : Plassard, Denis (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la Danse de Lyon , Saisons 2000 > 2009
Video producer : Maison de la Danse
Integral video available at Maison de la danse de Lyon
Elle semelle de quoi ?
2001 - Director : Bouvier, Mathieu
Choreographer(s) : Plassard, Denis (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la Danse de Lyon , Saisons 2000 > 2009
Video producer : Maison de la Danse
Integral video available at Maison de la danse de Lyon
Elle semelle de quoi? [Carmen]
A Carmen who doesn't touch the ground, a toreador who breaks, flying sneackers and a bit of rebel love... When a contemporary choreographer meets the hip-hop universe and puts it together with Bizet's Opera, the shock creates a wonderful choreographic piece full of humour, with delightful and choreographic deliriums. This Carmen left its mark!
Source : Cie Propos
Plassard, Denis
Denis Plassard started to dance on a misunderstanding : wrapped up in crepe paper for the "End of the Year Show" in primary school, he was convinced that the steps meant something and that putting them together was just like writing sentences to tell a story... Since then, a question (a bit odd for a dancer/choreographer) haunts him: what does the movement mean? What do we say when we move?
He then decided to study dance and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Lyon. After he graduated, he danced for 2 seasons with Josette Baïz's company in Aix-en-Provence.
In 1991, at the age of 23, he set up his own company named after his first solo, “Propos”, which was created the year before. Very early in his choreographic career, he tried to create dynamic links between speech and movement and his work focused on the connection between "Dance and Text". His choreographic writing is precise, sharp and very theatrical, and his style is quirky and full of humour and derision. Prolific choreographer and eager dancer, he enjoys being confronted with new universes and is continually looking for artistic meetings and crossroads between different aesthetics.
From Kafka to Mermet, from Bizet to Labiche, from the stage to the circus ring, he keeps having new ideas that mix hip-hop, circus, music, theatre and dance.
Source : The company Propos 's website
More information : compagnie-propos.com
Bouvier, Mathieu
Born in 1973, he lives and works in Pantin.
Visual artist, Mathieu Bouvier is a plastician, a videast, a photographer, a scenograph and an independant researcher.. Diplomed from the Saint Etienne art school and the Lyon art school, from the Le Fresnoy studio and the Tourocing SNAC. Some of his works have been shown in public art centers ans others in private space for an individual audience. As a videast, scenographist and dramatist he is close from contemporary danse. He is leading practical theoretical researches through workshops conducted with choreographers on the notion of « figures » or how to convert signs between body, image and language.
Source: Mathieu Bouvier 's website
More information : mathieu.mathieu.free.fr
Elle semelle de quoi?
Choreography : Denis Plassard (avec la complicité des danseurs)
Interpretation : Paul Bulenzi, Jim Krummenacker, Madgid Lahlouh, Mickaël Lamarre (ou Salomon Baneck-Asaro), Sonia Mvondo (ou Constance Besançon)
Stage direction : Denis Plassard
Additionnal music : Carmen (extraits) de Georges Bizet, Direction Thomas Beecham Enregistrement 1958/1959 Paris
Lights : Jean Tartaroli, Sébastien Revel (régie)
Costumes : Geneviève Grabowski (Accessoires), Lori Chardonnet (Costumes)
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Maison de la Danse - Danse ville danse 2001
[1930-1960]: Neoclassicism in Europe and the United States, entirely in tune with the times
The Ballets Russes paved the way for what would become known as: neo-classical. Back then, the term “modern ballet” was frequently used to define this renewal of aesthetics: a savvy blend of tradition and innovation, which each choreographer defined in their own way.
Amala Dianor: dance to let people see
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.
Hip hop / Influences
This Course introduce to what seems to be Hip Hop’s roots.
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.
VAISON DANSES
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.