Les petits riens
2010
Choreographer(s) : Massé, Marie-Geneviève (France)
Present in collection(s): Numeridanse.tv
Les petits riens
2010
Choreographer(s) : Massé, Marie-Geneviève (France)
Present in collection(s): Numeridanse.tv
Les petits riens
In 2006, on the occasion of the Great Mozart Days, the Center de Musique Baroque de Versailles proposed to Marie-Geneviève Massé, who directs the dance company l'Eventail, to recreate "Les Petits Riens", choreography by Jean George Noverre on music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performed for the first time on June 11, 1778 at the Royal Academy of Music.
Source : CN D - Centre national de la danse
Massé, Marie-Geneviève
Following a classical training with Daniel Frank and Yves Cassati, she studied contemporary dance with Aron Osbon, Sarah Sugwihara, Françoise Dupuy and Bernard Delattre.
In 1980 she fell in love with the dance she discovered through Françoise Lancelot – the baroque. She immediately joined the company “Ris et Danceries” and remained one of its principal artists until 1988, participating notably in the creation of Atys , the Bal à la Cour de Louis XIV , La Suitte d’un Goût Etranger with Dominique Bagouet and François Raffinot. From 1989 to 1992 she worked with François Raffinot as dancer and assistant in his company Barocco.
At the same time she taught baroque dance at the CNSM in Paris, the Conservatoire Royal in La Haye, the Sablé Academy, the Rio Academy and in the Cefedem. From 1995 to 1997 she directed the troop of dancers in the Théâtre Baroque de France.
Marie- Geneviève began choreographing in 1985 at the request of several directors and conductors, founding the company L’Eventail with Bernard Delattre. With this company, based in Sablé since 2001, granted national convention status in 2004, she has created more than thirty-five choreographies and collaborated with renowned artists.
In 2000, proposed by Didier Deschamps and Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt, she was named CHEVALIER DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES.
Following the presentation of "Renaud et Armide | Médée et Jason" at the Opéra Royal at Versailles and the Opéra Comique in December 2012, Marie-Geneviève created, amongst other things, "La Sérénade Royale" which was staged throughout the summer of 2014 in the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.
For the past four years she has been continuing the project “De la plume à l’image" in partnership with the National Dance Centre. At the moment, she is working on three new creations: « Les Amants Magnifiques » , « Fables à tiroir » et « Othello ou le ballet des apparences ».
She is also preparing the thirtieth anniversary of l’Éventail to be celebrated on December 12th 2015 with the Ballet des Fables at l’Entracte in Sablé-sur-Sarthe.
Source : The Company Eventail 's website
More information
Dance company L'Éventail
Artistic direction: Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre
Creation: 1985
Encouraged by Francine Lancelot L’Éventail Dance Company was founded in 1985 by Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre. From 1985 to 2000 the company was installed in the Paris region, thereof four seasons in residence at the Espace Carpeaux de Courbevoie. Since 2001, with its relocation in Sablé sur Sarthe, the company life has radically changed. In 2004 it receives the status of “compagnie conventionnée” – registered company – by the Ministry of Culture of the region Pays de la Loire (DRAC).
L’Éventail Dance Company is recognized as an essential reference point in the domain of Baroque Dance. Apart from contributing actively to the discovery of the richness and the vitality of this art form as well as to the spreading of the French choreographic culture the company shows a creative audacity: parting from roots of the past it initiates innovation and does not follow but blazes a trail.
The company develops two complementary intentions connecting memory and innovation, past and modernity with creations or reruns of choreographies in the spirit of the 17th and 18th century like (Don Juan by Gluck, Le Carnaval et la Folie opera-ballet by Destouches, Les Petits Riens by Mozart, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac comédie-ballet by Molière et Lully…) as well as the conception of original performances in baroque esthetic but with a contemporary concept like (Voyage en Europe, The Four Seasons, Metamorphosis)
Consisting of around twenty dancers, an acrobat, a marionette player and technicians, l’Éventail Dance Company cooperates regularly with international costume designers, musicians.
Source: L’Éventail Dance Company 's website
More information
Les petits riens
Artistic direction / Conception : Marie-Geneviève Massé
Choreography : Marie-Geneviève Massé
Choreography assistance : Marie Blaise
Interpretation : Sarah Berreby, Irène Ginger, Bérengère Bodénan, Olivier Collin, Marc Leclercq, Sabine Novel, David Berring, Bruno Benne, Anne-Sophie Ott
Live music : Patrick Cohen Akenine (direction musicale), ensemble les Folies Françoises
Lights : Carlos Perez
Costumes : Olivier Bériot
Settings : Opéra de Versailles
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Compagnie de danse l'Éventail, Opéra Royal de Versailles - 2006
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”.
Bagouet Collection
The BNP Paribas Foundation
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
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.
Hip hop / Influences
This Course introduce to what seems to be Hip Hop’s roots.
Vlovajobpru company
VAISON DANSES
40 years of dance and music
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.
The national choreographic centres
Modern Dance and Its American Roots [1900-1930] From Free Dance to Modern Dance
At the dawn of the 20th century, in a rapidly changing West, a new dance appeared: Modern Dance. In the United States as in Europe, modern trends emerge simultaneously and intertwine in thier development. Let's dive into the beginnings of American modern dance!