Skip to main content
Back to search
  • Add to playlist

Impair - focus

LALANBIK CRDC 2014

Choreographer(s) : Brabant, Jérôme (Reunion)

Present in collection(s): Focus Danse Océan Indien , Danse Océan Indien

Video producer : Compagnie L'Octogonale

en fr

Impair - focus

LALANBIK CRDC 2014

Choreographer(s) : Brabant, Jérôme (Reunion)

Present in collection(s): Focus Danse Océan Indien , Danse Océan Indien

Video producer : Compagnie L'Octogonale

en fr

Impair

Jérôme Brabant works on the everyday gestures of the “tisanèr” for his solo piece, Impair. In Reunionese Creole, “tisanèr” means a medicinal healer. This is someone people consult, who is recommended for his healing powers with plants, and who played an important role in Reunionese society at the beginning of the 20th century. The choreographer researched into his genealogy to find his ancestors, who produced medicinal concoctions to help combat typhoid.


The set is defined by a triangle, a balanced shape, involving an odd number, providing a vanishing point at the darkened body, “boukané”. The predominance of black and the presence of cymbals embodies the place where the magical cure is prepared: the kitchen with the blackened cooking pots of the tisanèr.


His body is completely covered in black paint with glitter highlights. This decoration emphasises the scenic importance of his bare hands and feet in the dark of the stage. His hands explore gestures based on action verbs: gathering, pressing, separating, lifting. The choreographer attaches this search to the entire body, like a sphere exploring its horizontality by making supple, rounded rotations. In a slow and fluid movement, like setting infinity in motion, a liquid comes to the boil in a measured and bewitching gesture, in order to obtain the desired texture. 


The skills of the “tisanèr” are passed from generation to generation and they are an oral tradition. The choreographer transposes this important place of orality in Reunion society through the instant composition of the singer who improvises a dull clamour by modulating his voice. The hard rock sounds of the percussion reflect back the ceremonious and occult tendencies of healing practices as if they were incantations. 


Source : Lalanbik

Brabant, Jérôme

Jérôme Brabant is a choreographer, born in 1973 at Saint-Pierre in Reunion Island. He studied theatre at Paris 8 University and the Mimodrame Marcel Marceau School. In 2001 he joined the Toulouse/Midi-Pyrenées Choreographic Development Centre to follow the “Extensions” course and started his career as a dancer-performer for several companies: Marco Berrettini’s *Melk Prod, the Samuel Mathieu company, the Patricia Ferrara company/Unber-Humber Group.


Jérôme Brabant started working as a choreographer from 2002, when he founded the UND und ballet with Marion Muzac. He created his first pieces: Roomy Dancing in 2002, Gala in 2003 and Pavilion in 2004.


In 2011 he founded his Octogonale Company on Reunion Island. His return to the island was the opportunity for him to search for a choreography that focused on the island’s identity. He created his first solo, Heimat, “the country you carry within you”.


In 2014, he produced his second solo performance called Impair, which was inspired by the craft of his grandparents, who were well-known for their knowledge of medicinal plants and magnetic healing.


In 2015, Jérôme Brabant collaborated with New Gravity, a group of free runners, and with them he created the piece Emergency.

In 2016, he researched exoticism with Maud Pizon and created A Taste of Ted, a group of solos adapted from original creations by Ted Shawn.

  

Source : Lalanbik’s website


More information : https://www.lalanbik.org/ 


Lalanbik

Lalanbik was founded in 2014, in Reunion Island. It contributes to the  valorization of actors and choreographics writings of Indian Ocean  territories. Lalanbik implement online ressources tools : the first is  its website, concerning the Indian Ocean Dance news, and the other one  is its online video library, which brings contents about contemporary  and traditional dance writings. Lalanbik works in partnership to lead  its actions in favor of the widening of publics with : libraries,  theatres, dance schools, schools and higher education.


Source : Lalanbik's website

More information : www.lalanbik.org/

Impair

Choreography : Jérôme Brabant

Interpretation : Jérôme Brabant

Live music : David Fourdrinoy

Our videos suggestions
02:56

Ligne de crête

Marin, Maguy (France)

  • Add to playlist
03:04

Lobby

Zebiri, Moncef (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:58

Another look at memory

Lebrun, Thomas (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:52

Weaving Chaos

Carvalho, Tânia (Portugal)

  • Add to playlist
04:39

Next Days

Robbe, Hervé (France)

  • Add to playlist
03:04

The Rite of Spring

Nijinsky, Vaslav (Monaco)

  • Add to playlist
06:04

Adieu et merci

Laâbissi, Latifa (France)

  • Add to playlist
12:50

Extraits de répertoire

Preljocaj, Angelin (France)

  • Add to playlist
06:14

Terpsichore

Massin, Béatrice (France)

  • Add to playlist
06:19

Fantaisies

Massin, Béatrice (France)

  • Add to playlist
04:39

Hans was Heiri

Zimmermann, Martin (Switzerland)

  • Add to playlist
53:00

Reamker, danse avec les dieux

  • Add to playlist
53:07

Dominique Bagouet et l'aventure constante

Bagouet, Dominique (France)

  • Add to playlist
12:30

Quelques mots sur "Le Saut de l'Ange"

Bagouet, Dominique (France)

  • Add to playlist
13:52

Service compris

Bagouet, Dominique (France)

  • Add to playlist
27:33

Demain la veille, spécial Dominique Bagouet

Bagouet, Dominique (France)

  • Add to playlist
41:08

Le Crawl de Lucien (Répétitions)

Bagouet, Dominique (France)

  • Add to playlist
27:07

À propos de Necesito à Villeneuve-lez-Avignon

Bagouet, Dominique (France)

  • Add to playlist
03:00

Le Songe

Maillot, Jean-Christophe (Monaco)

  • Add to playlist
02:55

Cendrillon

Maillot, Jean-Christophe (Monaco)

  • Add to playlist
Our themas suggestions

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”. 

Parcours

fr/en/

LATITUDES CONTEMPORAINES

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

Bagouet Collection

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

The Dance Biennial Défilé

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

The BNP Paribas Foundation

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

Black Dance

James Carlès, dancer and choreographer and specialist of Afro-American dance, evokes the origin of current-day urban dances. From Africa to the United States via Europe, he emphasizes their hybrid style and puts their social and political dimension into perspective. A myriad of videos, photos, illustrations and additional resources complement this interview.

Webdoc

fr/en/

Why do I dance ?

Social dances, anti-establishment, protest dances, rhythms or identities, rituals or pleasures... There are a myriad of reasons for dancing and a myriad of points of view. A webdoc to discover, enhanced with extracts from performances and accounts from amateurs... all the right reasons for dancing!

Webdoc

fr/en/

Artistic Collaborations

Panorama of different artistic collaborations, from « couples » of choreographers to creations involving musicians or plasticians

Parcours

fr/en/

Dance and performance

 Here is a sample of extracts illustrating burlesque figures in Performances.

Parcours

fr/en/

Round dance

 Presentation of the Round’s figure in choreography.

Parcours

fr/en/

The Dance Biennale

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

Female / male

A walk between different conceptions and receptions of genres in different styles and eras of dance.

Parcours

fr/en/es/de/pl/pt-pt/

Dance and visual arts

Dance and visual arts have often been inspiring for each other and have influenced each other. This Parcours can not address all the forms of their relations; he only tries to show the importance of plastic creation in some choreographies.

Parcours

fr/en/es/de/pl/pt-pt/

Hip hop / Influences

This Course introduce to what seems to be Hip Hop’s roots.

Parcours

fr/en/es/de/pl/pt-pt/

Vlovajobpru company

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

VAISON DANSES

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

40 years of dance and music

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

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. 

Parcours

fr/en/

The national choreographic centres

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/
By accessing the website, you acknowledge and accept the use of cookies to assist you in your browsing.
You can block these cookies by modifying the security parameters of your browser or by clicking onthis link.
I accept Learn more