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Metaphorá

Public Transport

K. Danse - Jean-Marc Matos 2017 - Director : Jeanmart, Claude

Choreographer(s) : Matos, Jean-Marc (France)

Present in collection(s): Spectacles-installations-arts numériques

Video producer : K. Danse

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Metaphorá

Public Transport

K. Danse - Jean-Marc Matos 2017 - Director : Jeanmart, Claude

Choreographer(s) : Matos, Jean-Marc (France)

Present in collection(s): Spectacles-installations-arts numériques

Video producer : K. Danse

en fr

Descriptif de l'oeuvre

Metaphorá (Public transport), production 2016, continuation of Errance. Interactive, immersive installation, choreographic performance, audience participation. A unique environment as a shared experience between choreography, sensitive bodies and a community of audience members.


Matos, Jean-Marc

Dancer, choreographer and artistic director. Trained at the Cunningham Studio in New-York, he has performed with David Gordon (Judson Church). He is interested in the impact of digital technology on society, in order to develop a meaningful relationship between dance and new media. He has choreographed more than 45 pieces which have been presented extensively in France (Avignon Festival, the Pompidou Center, etc.) and in many countries (Europe, Central and South America, USA, Canada, North Africa, India, Pakistan). He is involved in  several cross-cultural and multidisciplinary projects, including  the EU supported projects Metabody and Wholodance, for which he is one of the co-organizing partners.

interactive design, video, generative images)

Aurélie Dumaret & Emilie Villemagne (1minute69) www.1minute69.com

Holst, Anne

Anne Holst, co choreographer of the K. Danse Cie  www.k-danse.net/en/

Jeanmart, Claude

Claude Jeanmart, painter and video artist. http://www.claudejeanmart.com/

K. Danse

Contemporary dance Company involved in many production, mediation and research projects integrating dance and digital arts.

The choreographic approach of the K. Danse Company develops a contemporary movement language by the dialectic confrontation between the physical body (lived, experienced) and the visual body (seen, virtual). www.k-danse.net/en

Since 1983, K. Danse has been present in major festivals and cultural events in France and abroad: Festivals of Aix en Provence, Avignon In, la Rochelle, Châteauvallon, Métafort d’Aubervilliers, American Center of Paris, Georges Pompidou Center, Grande Halle de la Villette, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Maison de la Danse de Lyon, Centre National Art et Technologie de Reims, Centre National de la Danse, ISEA 2000 à Paris, Monaco Dance Forum, Espace Odyssud de Blagnac, Cité de l’Espace de Toulouse, Electrochoc Festival, Digital Art Center Le Cube of Issy Les Moulineaux, Arts Center of Enghien les Bains, the Ardenome Gallery in Avignon, the CENTQUATRE in Paris, Le Louvre Pyramid in Paris (with the BodyFail project, laureate of the 2017 Open Art Pulsar Prize), CURIOSITas Festival, Paris-Saclay (2019)…

The company has toured in Central America, Senegal, India, Vietnam, Morocco, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Pakistan, Belgium, Hungary, Canada and USA and has presented performances at the Soros Center of Budapest, Video Fest and Podewill Centrum, Berlin, Hamburg International Festival, Foundation Polar in Caracas, Festival Medi@rte in Monterrey, Festival VAD Girona and IDN Barcelona (Catalonia), The international Video Art Festival of Casablanca (Morocco), The National Theatre of Guatemala, NIAS of Bangalore (India), Festival Llunes d’esBaluard of Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands), ScenoFest Festival Quadrennial of Prague (Czech Republic), International Forum of Dance and Theater of Huesca, Spain (Price for the most innovative performance, 2012, with the Tactile Sensations project), Casa Paganini (Genoa, Italy), Romaeuropa Festival (Rome), La Sorbonne Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, 2018), International Festival of Video Art (Casablanca, Morocco, 2019)…

Recipient of a grant “projet Phare 2017” from la Diagonale Paris Saclay for the RCO project (with scientist and artist Sarah Fdili Alaoui), recipient of the Fellowship Residency program from the Bogliasco Foundation 2017 (Genoa Italy, New-York).

Metaphorá, l'équipe

Artistic direction / Conception : Matos, Jean-Marc

Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Holst, Anne

Choreography : Matos, Jean-Marc

Interpretation : Danseurs, performeurs, interprètes : Marianne Masson & Mario G. Sáez

Stage direction : Matos, Jean-Marc

Set design : Matos, Jean-Marc

Original music : Mondolfo, Emmanuel

Video conception : Design interactif, création vidéo, images génératives) : Aurélie Dumaret & Emilie Villemagne (1minute69) www.1minute69.com

Lights : Stuber, Yarol

Costumes : K. Danse

Technical direction : Stuber, Yarol

Other collaborations : Programmation système interactif : Arnaud Courcelle

Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Soutiens : Ville de Toulouse. Conseil Régional Occitanie. Conseil Départemental de la Haute-Garonne. Communauté Européenne (projet Metabody). Centre culturel de Ramonville. Abbaye de l'Escaladieu (65)

Production / Coproduction of the video work : K. Danse

Duration : 50 mn

Dedicated site, touring dates, other videos

Dedicated site: https://www.k-danse.net/en/portfolio/metaphora-transport-en-commun/

Touring dates:

- Centre Culturel Ramonville, Novembre 17, 2017
- Theater Le Ring, Toulouse, April 1-2, 2016
- Theater Marcel Pagnol, Villeneuve-Tolosane, May 27, 2016

- Theater Le Ring, Toulouse, December 10-11, 2015

- Festival Horizons numériques, Abbaye de l’Escaladieu (65), September 3-6, 2015
 

Video excerpts of interactive solo dance: https://vimeo.com/172286193

Video of Errance: https://vimeo.com/160101086

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