An extract remodelled by the group Diagonale(s), coordination by Marie-Aude Babault, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing). 

Transmission by Claire Malchrowicz, Anita Mauro, Vincent Simon 

Presented on 24 October 2020, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris).  

The piece when it was created 

« La Colère », extract of La Collection 

Firstly produced 3 May 2013, place de l’Église à Aubusson 

Choreography: Nathalie Pernette 

Pièce for three performers:  Tatiana Julien, Pauline Le Marchand, Vincent Simon 

Music Partita pour violon n°2, Jean-Sébastien Bach  

Original duration: 14 minutes 

The group 

Diagonale(s) (Rouen, Normandie) 

Based in Rouen, the group Diagonale(s) is made up of people of different ages and levels, united by the same desire to discover contemporary dance. Based on research projects in workshops conducted by Marie-Aude Babault and selected guest choreographers, the group participates each year in the creation of a choreography, most often presented during local events such as the Fête de la Musique or in festivals (“Poésie danse la rue”, “La danse dans tous les sens”). 

The projet 

Designed for the public space, “La Collection” is a series of short choreographic pieces that seek to reveal the emotional states that roam through the city. To proceed with the visual, tactile and audible transposition of these urban moods, Nathalie Pernette designed a sensory path in various places, reflecting embarrassment, desire, anger, joy, fear, or sadness. Struck by the energy given out by these in situ events, the members of the group Diagonale(s) addressed the expressiveness of “La Colère”,  interpreted for the occasion by twelve dancers. 

Challenge, blows received, given, hand to hand with the invisible, a raw energy carved by meticulous movements.

As well as manipulating others' bodies to capture their articular mobility, Nathalie Pernette anchors movement in spontaneity, the emotional discharge fed by interior sensation.

In this dancer-choreographer, classically trained since childhood, dance is nimbly embodied, verylintense and angular. Instinct and discipline against a background of permanent enquiry. Her time at Françoise and Dominique Dupuy's school only confirmed this zeal.

After working for twelve years with Andréas Schmid, she founded her own company in 2001 and kept up the repertoire of earlier works.

Whether out and about in town or on stage, Nathalie Pernette is always alert, always testing her theories, pursuing her obsessions. At length, with passion and with that dose of lucidity befitting a true researcher's spirit that is never satisfied. Over sixteen years and sixteen shows (six of which were in partnership with Andréas Schmid), Nathalie Pernette has turned work into a virtue.

Further information

compagnie-pernette.com

Updating: November 2010

Film director, Ivan Chaumeille, has worked with choreographer Dominique Brun a long time, most notably in the production of + One (2014), a creative documentary scheduled as part of the festival “Vidéodanse”, in the editing of which Rafaël Gubitsch participated; he filmed and edited two versions of Afternoon of a faun, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinski for the film Le Faune -un film ou la fabrique de l’archive. He also carried out interviews, and devised and formulated the ROM and video dimensions of the DVD (2007). He shot video sequences for the show Medea-Stimmen by Virginie Mirbeau, created at Festival Les Météores CNN du Havre (2008). With a background in philosophy, he produced a creative documentary entitled Avec François Châtelet, un voyage différentiel (2010) for the collection “À Contre-temps” in co-production with Groupe Galactica, Mosaïque films and Canal 15.