An extract remodelled by the group Octet, coordination by Sophie Dalmasso and Julie  Nadaud, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).  

Transmission by Yoann Têté, performer in the piece when it was created 

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

The piece when it was created 

Tel Quel ! 

Firstly produced 10 December 2013 at the Centre chorégraphique national in Tours 

Choreography: Thomas Lebrun 

Piece for four performers: Julie Bougard, Matthieu Patarozzi, Véronique Teindas, Yohann Têté 

Music Washington Marching Band, « Crusader » ; Samuel Barber, « C’est magnifique » performed by Aimé Barelli, Lilo & Peter Cookson, Luis Mariano, Cole Porter and Franck Pourcel 

Original duration: 50 minutes 

The group 

Octet (Istres, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) 

The group Octet formed in 2013, for the thirtieth anniversary of the association Pulsion, with the aim of reviving Jean-Claude Gallotta’s ”3 générations” a piece that has illustrated the transgenerational spirit of the association since 1983. The piece was presented at the Théâtre de l’Olivier and the CCN de Grenoble. Since 2013, the group’s female dancers meet to practice once a week; once a month, they meet for choreographic creation workshops with a view to a public presentation of their work. Octet also participates each year in the Rencontres chorégraphiques organised by the Fédération française de danse. 

The project 

A show for young audiences, hovering between circus, dance and cabaret, ”Tel Quel !” uses the mediums of dance, song, games, and theatricalness to narrate in dotted lines the fragility and complexity of human relationships. In the course of skits, now slapstick, now suspended, now tender or poetic, Tel Quel ! questions the relationship with the body, with intimacy, self-construction. The four interpreters, two men and two women, explore movement in all its dimensions – sharing, games, expression or emotion. 

Thomas Lebrun has danced for Bernard Glandier, Daniel Larrieu, Christine Bastin, Christine Jouve and Pascal Montrouge, and founded the Illico company in 1998, after composing the solo “Cache Ta Joie!“. Based in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, he was first of all an associated artist at Vivat, Armentières (2003-2005) before taking on a similar role in 2006 at Danse à Lille CDC (Centre for Choreographic Development). “On prendra bien le temps d'y être”, “(La) Trêves” “Les Soirées What You Want?”, “Switch”, “Itinéraire d'un danseur grassouillet” and now “La Constellation Consternée” are all works that are also aesthetic worlds which are explored, allying demanding and precise dance with an assertive theatricality.

Thomas Lebrun has also composed a number of pieces in collaboration, notably with the Swiss choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilité (“Le Show” / “Un Twomen Show”) and the French choreographer Cécile Loyer (Que tál!), and makes training and teaching a priority. She teaches at the CND (National Dance Centre) in Pantin and Lyon, Ménagerie de Verre, La Rochelle Conservatoire, Balletéatro de Porto, etc.

He has also choreographed for foreign companies, such as the Liaonning National Ballet in China, Grupo Tapias in Brazil (a solo and, in 2009, a quintet for the Year of France in Brazil) and for Loreta Juodkaité, the Lithuanian dancer

in the 2009 edition of the New Baltic Dance Festival in Vilnius et for FranceDanse Vilnius managed by  CulturesFrance (Vilnius, European cultural capital 2009).

In 2012, Thomas Lebrun becomes the new artistic director for the Centre chorégraphique national de Tours.

Further information

CCN Tours

Last update : May 2011

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.