An extract remodelled by Hamadryade (La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire), artistic manager Murielle La Rose, as part of the “Danse en amateur et répertoire” programme (2017/2018) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

Transmission by Pierre Rigal, Mélanie Chartreux, Camille Regneault and Julien Saint-Maximin.

Presented on 26 May 2018, Les 2 Scènes, Théâtre Ledoux, Besançon.

The piece when it was created

Firstly produced 2-4 February 2012 at the Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar

Choreoraphy: Pierre Rigal, Mélanie Chartreux

Piece for 9 performers:  Lydie Alberto, Abdoulaye Barry, Mathieu Hernandez, Giovanni Léocadie, Sandrine Lescourant, Yoann Nirennold, Camille Regneault, Julien Saint-Maximin, Marie-Kaae Schmidt

Music: Nihil Bordures

Original duration: 1h10

The group

Hamadryade (La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire)

The group is made up of members aged 19 to 50, all hailing from different horizons, from classical, jazz or contemporary dance backgrounds. Its aim is the creation and presentation on stage of dance pieces, an exercise that seeks to complete the technical classes. 

The project

Vivacity, colour and musicality are the choreographic aspects that immediately aroused the interest of the group’s female dancers and made them want to learn the language of Baroque dance that is not just limited to simple recreations of 17th and 18th century balls and ballets. Baroque dance is really, and continues to be, a choreographic language in its own right. These extracts from Dialogues are proof of this, possessing an extremely contemporary character while at the same time using a vocabulary that is four centuries old. 

Following a classical training with Daniel Frank and Yves Cassati, she studied contemporary dance with Aron Osbon, Sarah Sugwihara, Françoise Dupuy and Bernard Delattre.

In 1980 she fell in love with the dance she discovered through Françoise Lancelot – the baroque. She immediately joined the company “Ris et Danceries” and remained one of its principal artists until 1988, participating notably in the creation of  Atys ,  the Bal à la Cour de Louis XIV ,  La Suitte d’un Goût Etranger   with Dominique Bagouet and François Raffinot. From 1989 to 1992 she worked with François Raffinot as dancer and assistant in his company Barocco.

At the same time she taught baroque dance at the CNSM in Paris, the Conservatoire Royal in La Haye, the Sablé Academy, the Rio Academy and in the Cefedem. From 1995 to 1997 she directed the troop of dancers in the Théâtre Baroque de France.

Marie- Geneviève began choreographing in 1985 at the request of several directors and conductors, founding the company L’Eventail with Bernard Delattre. With this company, based in Sablé since 2001, granted national convention status in 2004, she has created more than thirty-five choreographies and collaborated with renowned artists.

In 2000, proposed by Didier Deschamps and Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt, she was named CHEVALIER DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES.

Following the presentation of  "Renaud et Armide | Médée et Jason"   at the Opéra Royal at Versailles and the Opéra Comique in December 2012, Marie-Geneviève created, amongst other things,  "La Sérénade Royale"  which was staged throughout the summer of 2014 in the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.

For the past four years she has been continuing the project “De la plume à l’image" in partnership with the National Dance Centre. At the moment, she is working on three new creations:  « Les Amants Magnifiques » , « Fables à tiroir » et « Othello ou le ballet des apparences ».

She is also preparing the thirtieth anniversary of l’Éventail to be celebrated on December 12th 2015 with the Ballet des Fables at l’Entracte in Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

Source : The Company Eventail 's website

More information

compagnie-eventail.com

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.

Amateur Dance and Repertory is a companion program to amateur practice beyond the dance class and the technical learning phase. Intended for groups of amateur dancers, it opens a space of sharing for those who wish to deepen a practice and a knowledge of the dance in relation to its history.

Laurent Barré
Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
+33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr

Source: CN D

More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme