Choreography by Bernard Glandier
An extract remodelled by the group Inseme.DA* (Ajaccio), artistic manager Michèle Ettori, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2015) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
* Association Vialuni.

The group
Created in 2004 in Ajaccio (Corsica) by the dancer and choreographer Michèle Ettori, the group Inseme.DA consists today of five dancers, adults and teenagers, all contemporary dance “fanatics”. The association proposes a variety of actions: training courses, workshops, specific creations for the group, which seeks to share contemporary art culture in general. As from this year, Inseme.DA has at its disposal Michèle Ettori’s dance studio, located on the heights of Ajaccio, a professional space specially fitted out for dance. 

The project
Working closely with the dancer Juan Manuel Vicente, who collaborated with Bernard Glandier from 1995 to 2001, the group chose an extract from the show Faits et gestes, voir ci­-après (1998). This is a quartet entitled Portraits, which has been adapted for the five female dancers and allows each one to enhance her singularity through dance, just as Bernard Glandier did originally for his company’s interpreters. He had asked each one to create sequences of steps according to their personality and thus created portraits read behind the lines. 

The choreographer
The choreographer Bernard Glandier (1957-2000), an interpreter for Dominique Bagouet, Susan Buirge, Catherine Diverrès and Bernardo Montet, created his first works in the early 1980s as part of the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier - compagnie Bagouet. He founded his company Alentours/Bernard Glandier in 1995 before settling in Alès two years later. His best-known shows include: the show for young audiences Le Roi des Bons (1989) as well as Pouce (1995), Faits et gestes (1997), Autre monde (1998), and Quelque tour de danse (2000). His archives are filed at the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (Institute for contemporary publishing archives) (Abbaye d’Ardenne, Saint-Germain la Blanche-Herbe).

The choreographer Bernard Glandier (1957-2000), an interpreter for Dominique Bagouet, Susan Buirge, Catherine Diverrès and Bernardo Montet, created his first works in the early 1980s as part of the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier - compagnie Bagouet. 

He founded his company Alentours/Bernard Glandier in 1995, before settling in Alès two years later. 

His best-known shows: the show for young audiences Le Roi des Bons (1989), as well as Pouce (1995), Faits et gestes (1997), Autre monde (1998), and Quelque tour de danse (2000). 

His archives are filed at the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (Abbaye d’Ardenne, Saint-Germain la Blanche-Herbe).

From live stage images to life in images, the  director and video artist Karim Zeriahen seems to have found the  shortest way. Since the beginning of the 90s, when he worked in close  relationship with choreographer Philippe Decouflé, he learned how to put  the art of stage in motion, contemporary dance most of the time. Karim  Zeriahen then starts a fruitful collaboration with Montpellier based  choreographer Mathilde Monnier. Stop, Videlilah, day of night, short  films adapted from her stage creations. Each time, Karim Zeriahen's   camera takes over the place with movement, the body language is not  frozen but magnified. Choreographer Herman Diephuis also joins this  gallery of dancing portraits. Documentaries on figures such like Albert  Maysles or Hubert de Givenchy and from Joe Dalessandro to Paul  Morrissey, he sets a signature, a camera always in action with  confidence.

Today the director goes further with a new  project and tracks the subtle movements of the body language beyond the  physical appearance. A collection of living portraits as unique pièces  reminding us of the master portraitists of renaissance. These living  natures consists in filming the subject in a certain amount of time,  almost still, with signs of respiration, eye blinks, as if it were  posing for a painting. They are then displayed on a flat screen with a  memory card. With this collection starting, Karim Zeriahen, with his  documentary and artist vision, interrogates himself about the virtual  world filled with images. By taking a pause, and his models with him, he  questions the way we look at things, the way we look at life.

Source: Philippe Noisette 

En savoir plus: www.karimzeriahen.com

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