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Minuit, tentatives d'approches d'un point de suspension

Minuit, tentatives d'approches d'un point de suspension

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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