What about Ida
1990
Choreographer(s) : Tompkins, Mark (United States)
Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture
Video producer : La Sept, Arcanal, Lieurac productions, CICV Montbéliard-Belfort, Cie IDA - Marc Tompkins, Ina
What about Ida
1990
Choreographer(s) : Tompkins, Mark (United States)
Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture
Video producer : La Sept, Arcanal, Lieurac productions, CICV Montbéliard-Belfort, Cie IDA - Marc Tompkins, Ina
What about Ida
Ida is a woman who laughs, dances and monologues in search of her imaginary twin sister. She watches television and entrusts the remote control to her dog Love who flicks between different dance sequences. Finally, the picture of Ida appears on the screen, telling Ida who watches her, a story about a dog and sugar, while dancers wearing army fatigues invade the room.
Inspired by the show Nouvelles by Mark Tompkins, in turn based on the novel Ida by Gertrude Stein, this film borrows, in its form and editing, a few narrative processes from the American novelist: extreme simplicity of situations, storytelling loops and associations of ideas. Mark Tompkins has long worked in the spirit of Stein: his dance is fluid and simple, often without “state”. And is it a pure coincidence that his company is called the International Dreams Association: IDA?
Source : Patrick Bossatti
Tompkins, Mark
Mark Tompkins is an American dancer, choreographer and teacher living in France since 1973. After a series of solos and group collaborations, he founds his company, I.D.A. in 1983. Over the years, Tompkins' unique way of fabricating unidentified performance objects has become his signature. Solos, group pieces and concerts that mix dance, music, voice, text and video are steps of this journey initiated in the 70's, and continued with the complicity of set and costume designer Jean-Louis Badet since 1988. His passion for improvisation and Real time composition leads him to collaborate with many dancers, musicians, video makers and light designers. Renowned for his teaching, he travels extensively around the world. Winner of the International Choreography Contest in Bagnolet in 1984. He has created works nearly every year since then.
Source : Mark Tompkins’s website
More information :
What about Ida
Artistic direction / Conception : Mark Tompkins, Alain Longuet
Choreography : Mark Tompkins
Text : Gertrude Stein
Production / Coproduction of the video work : La Sept, Arcanal, Lieurac productions, CICV Montbéliard-Belfort, Cie IDA - Marc Tompkins, Ina / Participation : ministère de la culture et de la communication (DMD)
Duration : 27'
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”.
The committed artist
In all the arts and here especially in dance, the artist sometimes creates to defend a cause, to denounce a fact, to disturb, to shock. Here is a panorama of some "committed" choreographic creations.
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
Why do I dance ?
Artistic Collaborations
Panorama of different artistic collaborations, from « couples » of choreographers to creations involving musicians or plasticians
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
The Dance Biennale
Contemporary Italian Dance : the 2000s
Panorama of contemporary dance practices in Italy during the 2000s.
Vlovajobpru company
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.
Body and conflicts
A look on the bonds which appear to emerge between the dancing body and the world considered as a living organism.
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!
Noé Soulier Rethinking our movements
Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces
Genesis of work
A dance show is created in multiples steps between the enunciation of an initial desire which launch the project and the first representation. This parcours presents diff