Minuit, tentatives d'approches d'un point de suspension
2017 - Director : Plasson, Fabien
Choreographer(s) : Bourgeois, Yoann (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la Danse de Lyon , Saisons 2010 > 2019
Video producer : Maison de la danse de Lyon
Minuit, tentatives d'approches d'un point de suspension
2017 - Director : Plasson, Fabien
Choreographer(s) : Bourgeois, Yoann (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la Danse de Lyon , Saisons 2010 > 2019
Video producer : Maison de la danse de Lyon
Minuit, tentatives d'approches d'un point de suspension
“It is because I had just reached the age when one can, seriously and whatever the course of events, anticipate the outlines of one’s future life and talk of one’s future days with that air of the past that I began to prepare a Programme. That age was not an objective threshold nor a temporal reality, but rather the awareness of something. Whatever the number of days remaining and even given the most daring prognostics, it would be too short.
My Programme consisted in defusing time. Of course this was impossible in itself. But there were methods for coming close. It would be simple and permanent. I decided on a simple sentence for the Work’s name: “Tentatives d’approches d’un point de suspension” (Attempts to approach a suspension point). Yes, something like the desire to produce a work of art. We’ll go into the details. The details will show that small shapes are just as important as large ones.
That all these formats existing on a horizontal plane seek to define the present. That all these scenographic constructions, apparatus, machines, objects, relationships with objects, with time, with the public, with images… finally all seek one thing.
A suspension.”
Source: Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois
Bourgeois, Yoann
Yoann Bourgeois trained at the National Centre for Circus Arts (CNAC) and at the National Centre for Contemporary Dance (CNDC) in Angers. For four years he was a performer with Maguy Marin’s company. His first piece, "Cavale", was a duet on a trampoline with Mathurin Bolze. In 2014 he created "Celui qui tombe" for the Lyon Dance Biennale, in which six artists attempt to stay upright on a moving stage. Since January 2016, he has co-directed the National Choreography Centre (CCN) of Grenoble with Rachid Ouramdane.
Source : 17e Biennale de la Danse (2016) - press file
More information
www.cieyoannbourgeois.fr (site non installé)
Plasson, Fabien
Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).
During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc) .
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.
From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.
Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.
Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website
More information: fabione.fr
Minuit, tentatives d'approches d'un point de suspension
Artistic direction / Conception : Yoann Bourgeois
Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Laure Brisa, Marie Fonte & Jean-Baptiste André
Choreography : Yoann Bourgeois
Stage direction : Yoann Bourgeois
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