Made in Strasbourg
2010
Choreographer(s) : Leighton, Joanne (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): WLDN / Joanne Leighton
Video producer : CCNFCB
Made in Strasbourg
2010
Choreographer(s) : Leighton, Joanne (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): WLDN / Joanne Leighton
Video producer : CCNFCB
Made in... Séries
Made in... Serie is a mass-performance choreography exploring spacial constructions seeking to reveal and explore specific architectures of chosen sites or spaces.
Made in... Series is a portrait of a city, a human landscape, a moving architecture, the mapping of a site. Created for both interior or exterior spaces, and taking into account a passing public, the piece is a series of presentations in the performance site. Through its accessibility, the piece encourages as great a number of non-professionals as possible to participate in a choreographic work. In doing so, the piece is inherently connected to its city and inhabitants.
This project, developed as part of Joanne Leighton’s residence at Pole Sud in 2010, is an in-situ performance for 5 professional dancers and 99 amateurs, performed at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (MAMCS). The work process enabled the participants to immerse themselves in the act of creation of a unique work, linked to the MAMCS.
Made in... is inspired by Land Art and through an exploration of questions of the quality of movement and the perception and mapping of space, Joanne and her dancers developed choreographic material accessible to a large number of non-dancers and amateurs. A sound score composed by Peter Crosbie and a scenography of large inflatable structures that introduce notions of weight and weightlessness help establish and define the performance space.
Made in Strasbourg is the first of this project, which will be recreated in different sites, contexts or towns, for example, museums and galleries, or urban spaces, such as parks or squares, under the name of Made in … Made in Strasbourg is the first creation by Joanne Leighton since being nomminated has directress of the CCNFCB.
Already presented are Made in Oldenburg (DE) Made in Centre Pompidou Metz, Made in Charleroi (BE), Made in Vesoul, Made in Ballet de Lorraine, Made in Nancy, Made in Belfort, Made in Freiburg (DE), Made in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Made in Dijon.
Choreographer : Joanne Leighton
Created with and alternately performed by Matthieu Bajolet, Massimo Fusco, Marie-Pierre Jaux, Claire Laureau
Sound design : Peter Crosbie
Technical director Thierry Meyer
Duration : 40 minutes (approx.)
Production Made in Strasbourg : CCNFCB, Pôle Sud and Velvet ASBL
Leighton, Joanne
Based in Paris Ile-de-France, Joanne Leighton is a Belgian-Australian choreographer and pedagogue. Her professional career is linked to an original, dynamic and constantly evolving vision of dance and her discourse is permeated by an emphasis on dialogue and exchange, both with the public and with her artistic collaborators. Central to her work lies the notion of site, territory and identity, which are for Joanne Leighton interdependent spaces.
Joanne Leighton is the representative choreographer of the administrative council of the SACD (French Society of Composers and Dramatic Authors) and the Beaumarchais 2018 – 2020. She is also a member of the administrative council of La Maison du Geste et de l'Image in Paris.
After dancing in the Australian Dance Theater (1986-1991), Joanne Leighton moved to Europe, living and performing in London for 2 years. Her company Velvet was formed in Brussels from 1993 - 2010, where she established her choreographic work, active for over 18 years. She was choreographer in residence at the Raffinery - Charleroi/Danses (2003-2005) and Les Halles de Schaerbeek (2005-2007). In 1994 and in 2010 she received the SACD Prize (Society of Composers and Dramatic Authors) for her choreographic work. Joanne Leighton has been commissioned to create work for international companies such as the Dance Theater of Ireland (2001); in Belgium for Charleroi Danses (2005); in France for the Ballet de Lorraine (2014) and in Switzerland for the company Marchepied (2015).
Director of the National Choreographic Center of Franche-Comté in Belfort in France (2010 – 2015), Joanne Leighton formed WLDN in 2015. WLDN is a project, philosophy and platform for her choreographic research and creation. Her works have been performed nationally and internationally in theaters, urban and industrial spaces, art galleries, town squares, on rooftops and presented on screens and smartphones. Joanne Leighton's choreographic work has been co-produced and presented on international stages for over 20 years, with over 30 productions touring to France, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Wales, the United Kingdom, Australia and Cuba.
Joanne Leighton’s choreographic work includes Corps Exquis (2019) a piece for 3 dancers around an exquisite corpse for 58 choreographers; I am sitting in a room, a movement study of the sitting position performed by four poetic clowns on the eponymous text by American composer Alvin Lucier; Exquisite Corpse (2012) an exquisite corpse for 7 dancers ; Made in…Series, a large scale ‘architecture in movement’ for 99 participants performed in situ and (re)created in France, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, Cuba; The Modulables, a series of site-specific pieces between installation and performance with an ambulatory public, which have been evolving over a period of 10 years. In 2014, Joanne Leighton and the director Christoph Frick co-sign Melting Pot for 9 young performers from immigrant backgrounds, a cultural exchange between the Theater Freiburg, the CCN of Belfort and Junges Theater Basel. Chair Dances, an evolutive virtual digital gallery comprising over 30 short choreographic films by diverse choreographers involving chairs, was initiated by Joanne Leighton in 2010.
In 2015 Joanne Leighton initiated a trilogy of works which will span 5 years with her signature piece 9000 Steps, performed by six dancers on a bed of salt to the music Drumming, Steve Reich. This work was followed in 2018 with Songlines, for eight dancers, created to the fascinating musical composition In C by Terry Riley. This trilogy will conclude with her production People United in 2021.
In September 2011, Joanne Leighton launched her large scale work, The Vigil, whereby each morning and evening at sunrise and sunset over 365 days, a participant holds watch over the city for one hour, a work for 730 inhabitants and performed over 365 consecutive days. Around these same principals this choreography has been mounted for the towns Belfort (September 2011 – September 2012) ; Laval (15th September 2012 – 15th September 2013) ; Rennes (30th September 2012 – 29th September 2013) Haguenau (1st January – 31st December 2015), Freiburg, Germany (20th June 2015 – 19th June 2016) and Evreux, France for the Le Tangram, Scène Nationale (22nd September 2017 – 22nd September 2018) ; Dordrecht, for the Schouwburg Kunstmin in Holland (1st Mai 2019 – 30th April 2020) , and eigth project, The Graz Vigil Austria (1st January 2020 - 31st December 2020) for La Strada, is currently in performance. The Münich Vigil - Türmer München, is due to start shortly (12th December 12th 2020 - 12th December 2021) ; along with The Hull Vigil (20th March 2021 - 19th March 2022) for the Freedom Festival of Hull in the United Kingdom.
In parallel to this work, Joanne Leighton initiated a series of walking pieces as with Walk#1 Belfort – Freiburg, where she walked a path between two Vigil sites by following waterways over 127 kms in four days. Since 2014 these ‘walking dances’ are part of her choreographic practice. In September 2017, Joanne Leighton mounted Walk, a performance over 25 km linking the four theaters of Paris Réseau Danse, with an open call for participants to join her. Her work Salt Circle concluded this unique event at Atelier de Paris/CDCN. Her walking projects such as Walking as Remembering (2019) weave into her choreographic practice and stage work.
An internationally recognized pedagogue, Joanne Leighton regularly gives lectures and workshops. She has taught for companies such as Jean-Claude Gallotta, Catherine Diverrès, Angelin Preljocaj, Trisha Brown Company, Batsheva Company, Charleroi / Danses, AMNT in Tokyo, Need Company, Rosas, Wim Vandekeybus, and dance centers like the Seoul International Choreographic Center (South Korea); The Menagerie de Verre, Paris; Centre National Danse in Paris; Atelier de Paris / CDCN; PARTS; Dansens House in Copenhagen; and the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance / Zagreb Dance Center. She has also taught in art schools such as the fine arts school in Toulouse.
Interested in finding new ways of being, doing, thinking, working, making and presenting, Joanne Leighton seeks to embrace a radically different approach to access, ownership, and authorship in contemporary dance performance.
Made in Strasbourg
Choreography : Joanne Leighton
Interpretation : Matthieu Bajolet, Massimo Fusco, Marie-Pierre Jaux, Claire Laureau, Arthur Perole
Sound : Peter Crosbie
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : CCNFCB, Velvet, Pôle Sud-Strasbourg
Duration : 40'
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