Julie Dossavi, a beauty hailing from Benin and an outstanding dancer, presents the solo “F.I.V.E.” It begins with the reading of the distressing letter discovered on the two Guinean children found dead in the landing gear of a plane in 1999. An extravagant deflagration, a dance attentive to the world. 

Source: Maison de la Danse's programme

From an athletic background (UEREPS with an option in contemporary dance), Julie Dossavi dances with Jean-François Duroure and Philippe Decouflé. She is an interpreter and assistant-choreographer with Kettly Noël, a dancer-interpreter with Salia Ni Seydou and Kader Attou, as well as collaborating in fashion shows (Jean-Paul Gaultier). In 2003, she created the Julie Dossavi company in Poitiers, where she developed a contemporary dance that is highly personal, hybrid and robust, sensual and plastic, all in variations of forms and rhythms. She composes intimate shows around women’s status and the phenomenon of dual culture.  

Alongside choreographic works for several interpreters, Julie Dossavi explores the form of the solo danced on a stage shared with musicians or singers. Invited by the event Le Vif du sujet in 2004, she asked Daniel Larrieu to compose a solo for her, “À chaque vent le papillon se déplace sur le saule”, presented by the festivals Montpellier Danse and Paris Quartier d’été. In 2012, she presented “Cross & Share” at the Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, where she explored a third path, that of co-composition and co-writing, uniting around a principle of shared creation, famous authors, choreographers, musicians and directors: Thomas Lebrun, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Hamid Ben Mahi and Michel Schweizer.

Source: Julie Dossavi Company's website

More information: cie-juliedossavi.com

Author, filmmaker and video artist Charles Picq (1952-2012) entered working life in the 70s through theatre and photography. A- fter resuming his studies (Maîtrise de Linguistique - Lyon ii, Maîtrise des sciences et Techniques de la Communication - grenoble iii), he then focused on video, first in the field of fine arts at the espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain (ELAC) and with the group « Frigo », and then in dance.
   On creation of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon in 1980, he was asked to undertake a video documentation project that he has continued ever since. During the ‘80s, a decade marked in France by the explosion of contemporary dance and the development of video, he met numerous artists such as andy Degroat, Dominique Bagouet, Carolyn Carlson, régine Chopinot, susanne Linke, Joëlle Bouvier and regis Obadia, Michel Kelemenis. He worked in the creative field with installations and on-stage video, as well as in television with recorded shows, entertainment and documentaries.

His work with Dominique Bagouet (80-90) was a unique encounter. He documents his creativity, assisting with Le Crawl de Lucien and co-directing with his films Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux and 10 anges. in the 90s he became director of video development for the Maison de la Danse and worked, with the support of guy Darmet and his team, in the growing space of theatre video through several initiatives:
       - He founded a video library of dance films with free public access. This was a first for France. Continuing the video documentation of theatre performances, he organised their management and storage.
       - He promoted the creation of a video-bar and projection room, both dedicated to welcoming school pupils.
       - He started «présentations de saisons» in pictures.
       - He oversaw the DVD publication of Le tour du monde en 80 danses, a pocket video library produced by the Maison de la Danse for the educational sector.

       - He launched the series “scènes d'écran” for television and online. He undertook the video library's digital conversion and created Numeridanse.

His main documentaries are: enchaînement, Planète Bagouet, Montpellier le saut de l'ange, Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces, grand ecart, Mama africa, C'est pas facile, Lyon, le pas de deux d'une ville, Le Défilé, Un rêve de cirque.

He has also produced theatre films: Song, Vu d'ici (Carolyn Carlson), Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux, 10 anges, Necesito and So schnell, (Dominique Bagouet), Im bade wannen, Flut and Wandelung (Susanne Linke), Le Cabaret Latin (Karine Saporta), La danse du temps (Régine Chopinot), Nuit Blanche (Abou Lagraa), Le Témoin (Claude Brumachon), Corps est graphique (Käfig), Seule et WMD (Françoise et Dominique Dupuy), La Veillée des abysses (James Thiérrée), Agwa (Mourad Merzouki), Fuenteovejuna (Antonio Gades), Blue Lady revistied (Carolyn Carlson).

Source: Maison de la Danse de Lyon