D’après une histoire vraie [remontage 2020]
2020 - Directors : Chaumeille, Ivan - Gubitsch, Rafaël
Choreographer(s) : Rizzo, Christian (France)
Present in collection(s): Danse en amateur et répertoire
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
D’après une histoire vraie [remontage 2020]
2020 - Directors : Chaumeille, Ivan - Gubitsch, Rafaël
Choreographer(s) : Rizzo, Christian (France)
Present in collection(s): Danse en amateur et répertoire
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
D’après une histoire vraie [remontage 2020]
An extract remodelled by the group Accords perdus, coordination by Aurélie Frédéric, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
Transmission by Yaïr Barelli, 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
D’après une histoire vraie
Firstly produced 7 July 2013 in the gymnasium Aubanel during the Festival d’Avignon
Choreography: Christian Rizzo
Piece for eight performers: Fabien Almakiewicz, Yaïr Barelli, Massimo Fusco, Miguel Garcia Llorens, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Filipe Lourenço, Roberto Martínez
Music Didier Ambact and King4Q
Original duration: 1 hour
The group
Accords perdus (Paris Île-de-France)
Consisting of psychomotor specialists, the group Accords perdus seeks to explore the link between dance and psychomotricity, by questioning the body fundamentals such as flux, weight, shape, fall, and link. Since 2014, the group has met regularly to lead workshops around a creation, allowing triggering of specific notions, such as weight, in the piece ”Solides” with the company Catherine Diverrès in 2017. The group also conducts laboratory work geared towards improvisation and choreographic writing.
The project
Eight men striking the ground, spinning, falling, united by a haunting rhythm. ”D’après une histoire vraie” is the result of a moment of revelation: before a traditional men’s dance, Christian Rizzo had the intuition of a group of men linked by a set of shared gestures. Steered by this imaginary horizon, he gave form to a dance of the earth, intimately tied to the rhythm that shakes the stage. An abstract rite, powered by the energy of the two drummers, blurring the boundaries between folk and contemporary music, the solitude and intensity of the group.
Rizzo, Christian
Christian Rizzo was born in 1965 in Cannes. His artistic career began in Toulouse, where he started a rock band and designed a line of clothing, after which he studied fine arts at the Villa d'Arson in Nice, then unexpectedly branched out into dance.
In the 90s he performed with a number of contemporary choreographers including mathilde monnier, herve robbe, mark tompkins and georges appaix, and sometimes created soundtracks and costumes for them as well.
He also worked with choreographers with a different artistic approach, such as vera mantero, catherine contour, emmanuelle huynh and rachid ouramdane.
In 1996 he founded l'association fragile and began presenting events, dancing objects, solos and group pieces, as well as various projects and commissioned work in fashion and the visual arts.
Since then, over thirty projects have borne fruit, not counting his pedagogical activities. Christian rizzo teaches on a regular basis in art schools in France and abroad, as well as in establishments devoted to contemporary dance.
On January 1st, 2015, Christian Rizzo takes the lead of the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier. Now called ICI (International Choreographic Institute), the CCN offers a transversal vision of creation, training, artistic education and openness to the public.
Source : Website of ICI, CCN of Montpellier
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Chaumeille, Ivan
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.
Gubitsch, Rafaël
Rafaël Gubitsch, who is a camera operator, film editor and photographer, produces documentaries and videos around plastic art, music and dance.
He recorded videos by the artist Elliott Causse “Fluctuations” in the context of his numerous installations and monumental frescoes. The film Propagations (2015) portrays the opening of the exhibition, which has the same name as his creation.
He made several documentary videos for Trio Talweg including the EPK of their album Trios avec piano (2018), the recording of which is shown at the Arsenal of Metz.
He has been assistant film editor with Ivan Chaumeille several times, including for + One (2014), a creative documentary scheduled as part of the festival “Vidéodanse”.
As a photographer, he planned the exhibition Urbanicités (2016) with Corentin Hervouët at the 39/93 in Romainville, which focuses on daily life and the city, the multitude of loneliness.
Rafaël has been the audiovisual operator of the exhibition hall of the Philharmonie de Paris since 2016.
D’après une histoire vraie [remontage 2020]
Choreography : Christian Rizzo
Interpretation : Barbara Chapot, Manon Chaurand, Marine Da Costa, Aurélie Frédéric, Vincent Haramboure [absent à la rencontre], Frankie Rico Sanz
Additionnal music : Didier Ambact et King4Q
Video conception : Ivan Chaumeille et Rafaël Gubitsch
Duration : 14 minutes
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