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Mansouria

Ministère de la Culture 1991 - Director : Riolon, Luc

Choreographer(s) : Baïz, Josette (France)

Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture , CNC - Images de la culture

Video producer : Vidéogram, Arcanal

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Mansouria

Ministère de la Culture 1991 - Director : Riolon, Luc

Choreographer(s) : Baïz, Josette (France)

Present in collection(s): Ministère de la Culture , CNC - Images de la culture

Video producer : Vidéogram, Arcanal

en fr

Mansouria

In a district of Marseilles, a child is running from square to square, from the school courtyard to the classroom, passing through a wasteland occupied by gypsies. In each of these places, he meets groups of children who sing and dance to smash hits or musics recalling their origins. Each encounter is the pretext to start a story or a dream.

 This document was produced during a choreographic residency in the Bricarde district of Marseilles, at the instigation of the French Ministry of Culture, as part of urban social development. Through dance and music, Luc Riolon and Josette Baïz, who have worked with children for many years, have drawn up the sensitive map of the ethnic make-up of this city. The children’s hopes and dreams have been made into scenes and staged with their participation. Solitude, impossibility of boys and girls to communicate, desire to meet and party, fantasies about marriage and social recognition are all subjects tackled with humour or seriousness in a series of sequences acted out, danced and filmed with modesty or with an assumed sense of exhibitionism.


Source : Patrick Bossatti

Baïz, Josette

Josette Baïz, who was trained by Odile Duboc, has been teaching contemporary dance since 1978 in Aix-en-Provence, where she created her first choreographies for young dancers who took part in her classes.

In 1982, when she was a dancer for Jean-Claude Gallotta, Josette Baïz won first prize in the 14th edition of the Bagnolet International Choreographic Competition, as well as the public prize and the French Minister for Culture's prize. She went on to found her first company: The Place Blanche, and has since created over 40 works, for her own companies and for an array of national (Toulouse, Jeune Ballet de France of the Lyon Conservatory, etc.) and international ballets (Boston, Royal Ballet of Phnom Penh, Germany, Venezuela, The Netherlands, etc.).

In 1989, the French Minister for Culture invited her for a year as artist in residence for a school in the Northern districts of Marseille. This encounter with young people, from a variety of cultures and backgrounds, led her to reconsider the signification of her work and to radically modify her artistic approach.
The confrontation with proposals as diverse as breakdance, smurf, hip-hop, oriental, gypsy, Indian and African dance, obliged her to totally reappraise the physical and mental skills she had acquired.
She was totally unacquainted with the supports, the way the ground was used, the circular movements of the hips, the sharp strikes of flamenco and the loosened pelvis of African dances.

And so, a process of mutual exchange was initiated: Josette Baïz taught contemporary, classical dance and composition in research workshops; the young dancers taught her their way of asserting their origins and feelings.

It was, therefore, only natural for Josette Baïz to create the Groupe Grenade, which brought together over thirty young dancers, in 1992. In 1998, Josette decided to perpetuate the cross-cultural work undertaken with the Groupe Grenade, whilst continuing to pursue an intensely contemporary perspective. She created the compagnie Grenade which comprised five key dancers from the Groupe Grenade.

Josette Baïz's wish is to continue to enhance this choreographic repertoire by continuing to partner artistically with French and international choreographers; by taking part in cutting-edge and original multidisciplinary projects and, as such, initiating encounters and exchange.

Source : Grenade - Josette Baïz Cie 's website

More information

josette-baiz.com

 

Riolon, Luc

After studies of mathematics preparatory class and medecine studies, Luc Riolon begins to make films within the framework of his Faculty of Medicine, then met the famous choreographers of the 80s (Maguy Marin, Mark Tompkins, Josef Nadj, Daniel Larrieu Daniel, Odile Duboc, Josette Baiz, Angelin Prljocaj, etc.) with whom he shoots numerous films (re-creation for the camera, the illegal securements). In the 80s with the American choreographer Mark Tompkins he introduces the video on the stage, broadcasting live on big screens the images which he shoots with his camera by being on the stage with the dancers, mixing live images and pre-recorded images. With Daniel Larrieu he participates in the creation of the famous show WATERPROOF, the contemporary choreography which takes place in a swimming pool, by filming live) the dancers dancing in the water and mixing the live images with pre-recorded underwater images. This choreography has been shown in many countries (USA, Canada, Spain, England…)
Then he collaborates during 10 years with the famous french TV producer Eve Ruggieri for her programs" Musics in the heart ". He shoots with her of numerous documentaries about classical music, opera singers and dance. From 1999 he directs documentaries of scientific popularization, by following researchers attached to the resolution of a particular ecologic enigma. These two artistic and scientific domains which can seem separated are nevertheless, for Luc Riolon, connected by the same approach : the deep desire to understand the world, by the art or by the scientific research, and to restore it to the largest number. Among his recent scientific documentaries, we can quote for example " The Enigma of the Black Caiman ", Living and dying in the swamp " or " The Nile delta: The end of the miracle ". “Chernobyl, a natural history ? “ These documentaries of scientific popularization recently have been awarded in international festivals.


Source: Vimeo

Mansouria

Choreography : Josette Baïz

Interpretation : Les enfants de la Bricarde de Marseille

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Vidéogram Paris, Arcanal, Alhambra ciné palace, Cie la Place blanche / Participation : Ville de Marseille (Direction de l'Habitat), ministère de la culture (DDF, DMD)

Duration : 33'

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