Rien ne laisse présager de l'état de l'eau [remontage 2016]
2016 - Director : Zeriahen, Karim
Choreographer(s) : Duboc, Odile (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , Danse en amateur et répertoire
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Rien ne laisse présager de l'état de l'eau [remontage 2016]
2016 - Director : Zeriahen, Karim
Choreographer(s) : Duboc, Odile (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , Danse en amateur et répertoire
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Rien ne laisse présager de l'état de l'eau [remontage 2016]
A creation by Odile Duboc and Françoise Michel
An extract remodelled by the group Trajectoires (Caen), artistic manager Florence Divert Issembourg, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2015) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
The group
The group Trajectoires brings together eight young girls and five adults with the same desire to further and chisel complex body states. Based in Caen (Calvados) and directed by Florence Divert Issembourg, the group advocates openness, a sense of sharing and the joy of working together by tackling all the facets nurturing a dance show, from music to painting not to mention texts.
The project
The desire to plunge into Odile Duboc’s choreographic material and writing is stimulated by the fact that she had a profound influence on Florence Divert Issembourg’s dancing career. The latter was won over by the former’s pleasure in transmitting, her generosity and the way with which she inspired trust in her interpreters. She also appreciated Odile Duboc’s richness of vocabulary and finesse. When she discovered the piece Rien ne laisse présager de l’état de l’eau, in 2007, she decided to renew and share her passion with her students. Blandine Minot-Stora was the person who transmitted the various show materials.
The choreographer
A key figure of French contemporary dance, a choreographer and pedagogue, Odile Duboc (1941-2010) founded her company Contrejour in 1983 with her associate and light designer Françoise Michel. Between 1990 and 2008, she directed the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté, Belfort. Out of her flagship shows, the following should be cited: Insurrection (1989), Projet de la matière (1993) with the visual artist Marie-Josée Pillet, Trois Boléros (1996), Rien ne laisse présager de l’état de l’eau (2005), to name but a few. Each of her shows is created in close collaboration with Françoise Michel. Over time, she has developed a profound and organic set of gestures in relation with water, air, earth and fire. Her sense of gentle abstraction is driven by a strange physical density and a precise knowledge of the body. A pedagogue who loves to share, she has federated the energies of interpreters and choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, Alban Richard, and Brigitte Asselineau.
Duboc, Odile
A classical dancer and self-taught teacher in Aix-en-Provence, Odile Duboc created her own school Les Ateliers de la danse in the 1970s. In 1983, she created the association Contre jour, with her partner and lighting designer, Françoise Michel. In 1990 and until the end of 2008, she directed the Franche-Comté National Choreographic Center in Belfort, where she succeeded Joanne Leighton. In 1993, she created the work Projet de la matière, a milestone in the history of the new French dance. She will be recognized as an important choreographer of French dance, and will stage many shows and operas for various institutions, including the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers. She died of cancer on April 23, 2010 at the age of 69.
Zeriahen, Karim
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
Rien ne laisse présager de l'état de l'eau [remontage 2016]
Artistic direction / Conception : Odile Duboc et Françoise Michel
Interpretation : Alice Le Bigot, Zoé Dujarrier, Orphina Couturier, Emily McAleer, Jade Lhémery, Basia Travers, Lila Chauvin, Léane Plihon, Laure Mimoso, Alex Shiel, Frédérique Villain, Thierry Bourdon, Nicolas Képa
Original music : Thomas Jeker
Other collaborations : Extrait remonté par le groupe Trajectoires (Caen), responsable artistique Florence Divert Issembourg, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2015) - Transmission Blandine Minot-Stora
Duration : 13 minutes
Danse en amateur et répertoire
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
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