Peuplé, dépeuplé
2016
Choreographer(s) : Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)
Present in collection(s): Christian et François Ben Aïm
Peuplé, dépeuplé
2016
Choreographer(s) : Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)
Present in collection(s): Christian et François Ben Aïm
Peuplé, dépeuplé (Unhabited, inunhabited)
Ben Aïm, Christian & François
For more than twenty years, Christian and François BEN AÏM have been building a work rich of poetry and high standards, fraternal bond and singularity.
At the end of a multidisciplinary training combining dance, physical theater and circus, each one follows his path as a performer, then the two brothers meet to create À l’abri du regard des hommes, avant d’aller mourir ailleurs, a hybrid dance-theater piece which marks the beginning of their collaboration in 1997. Twenty pieces will follow which anchor their fieldwork as much as they travel internationally. They draw their inspiration from literary, musical and pictorial sources, and intimately mixing artistic disciplines on the stage : En plein coeur (2006), Valse (2010), The Ogresse on archives and her dog (2011), Lightness of Storms (2014), Burn, rebellious hearts (2017), Mirages — boreal souls (2018), Arise (2019), JESTS (2021).
Marked by an uncompromising energy, summoning the performer to an intimate relationship with movement, the dance of the BEN AÏM brothers offers, beyond a speech, an experience, a "crossing" that the dancer performs in front of our eyes, that he lives each time with the sincerity of a full and entire presence.
With this demanding writing comes an art of composition which gives birth to the stage an imagination borrowing from dreams, from the marvelous of the tale and from invisible realities. Through a subtle effect of empathy, the audience enters an unstable world, where everything is the object of poetic questioning - a world to be experienced together.
Calendar of creations
2021
2019
Snapshots - A series femal solos
2018
2017
Brûlent nos coeurs insoumis (Burn, rebellious hearts)
2016
Peuplé, dépeuplé (Inhabited, uninhabited)
2014
2013
La forêt ébouriffée (The Dense Forest)
2011
L'Ogresse des archives et son chien
2010
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut encore changer
2001
La Frontera
1999
L'enfant du miroir
1998
L'homme rapaillé
1997
A l'abri du regard des hommes, avant d'aller mourir ailleurs
Peuplé, dépeuplé
Artistic direction / Conception : François Ben Aïm
Choreography : François Ben Aïm, avec le regard complice de Christian Ben Aïm
Set design : Camille Duchemin
Live music : Basse électrique : Olivier Lété. En alternance avec Frédéric Chiffoleau pour l'interprétation, Batterie : Emmanuel Scarpa
Lights : Laurent Patissier
Costumes : Dulcie Best assistée de Elise Leliard, Création masques : Rémi Cassan, Carolina Munoz
Settings : Les Ateliers Décors
Sound : Sébastien Teulié
Other collaborations : Régie générale sur la création : Luc Béril Remerciements à : Guillaume Pavesi-Mulon
Duration : 50 minutes
Western classical dance enters the modernity of the 20th century: The Ballets russes and the Ballets suédois
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LATITUDES CONTEMPORAINES
James Carlès
Bagouet Collection
The committed artist
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The BNP Paribas Foundation
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Indian dances
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les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
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Round dance
Presentation of the Round’s figure in choreography.