Roman Photo [remontage 2015]
2015 - Director : Zeriahen, Karim
Choreographer(s) : Charmatz, Boris (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
Roman Photo [remontage 2015]
2015 - Director : Zeriahen, Karim
Choreographer(s) : Charmatz, Boris (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
Roman Photo [remontage 2015]
Choreography by Boris Charmatz
A choreographic extract remodelled by the group Boutures (Combourg), as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2014) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
The group
Based in Combourg between Rennes and Saint-Malo, Extension sauvage is a contemporary dance programme in rural areas, driven by the choreographer Latifa Laâbissi, who was also an interpreter alongside Boris Charmatz. The group Boutures has witnessed some fifteen children immerse themselves completely into works, under the watchful eye of their choreographers (D. Brun, E. Huynh, G. Jobin, J. Nioche). For the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” meeting, coherence is at its utmost as, at its outset, Roman Photo was imagined, by Boris Charmatz, as an offshoot adaptable to very varied groups and contexts, generally amateur, according to the very principle of chain transmission, as revealed by the writing of his Flip Book based on Merce Cunningham.
The choreographer
Since the mid-1990s, Boris Charmatz has radically questioned the historical and ideological conditions of the sustainment of choreographic art, via its techniques and transmission methods. He has directed the paradoxical project of a Dance Museum in Rennes since 2008 (as part of a CCN). He was artist associated with the direction of the Festival d’Avignon in 2011. Created in 2009, the piece Flip Book takes a caustic look at the legacy of the great contemporary dance master, Merce Cunningham. The interpreters of this piece reproduce the pauses on the three hundred photos of David Vaughan’s work, Merce Cunningham – Fifty Years. The result is an original meta-choreography. Roman Photo is its version for amateurs.
The artist
Olga Dukhovnaya met Boris Charmatz when she took part in the setting up of Roman Photo, going on to become one of his regular interpreters. She leads this transmission. From the outset, Roman Photo was imagined as a relay intended for amateurs, students, participants in workshops, based on Flip Book, the original professional piece. The principle of the latter suggests a chain transmission, which places its interpreters in the situation of strictly reproducing the pauses observed on the photos of the work Merce Cunningham – Fifty Years, and of imagining for them, very personally, an interpretative logic of sequences and transitions. The result is a strange kinesthetics, formulating questions of rhythms, frontality and intentions.
Charmatz, Boris
Born in Chambéry (France), on January 3, 1973
After studying at the Ecole de Danse de l'Opéra de Paris and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, Boris Charmatz was engaged by Régine Chopinot to dance Ana (1990) and Saint-Georges (1991). In 1992, he was asked by Odile Duboc to join her company Contrejour to dance 7 jours/7 villes (1992), Projet de la matière (1993) and Trois Boléros (1996). He also took part in the premiere of K de E, choreographed by Olivia Grandville and Xavier Marchand (1993).
In 1992, he co-founded edna association with Dimitri Chamblas. Following the premieres of works the pair choreographed together À bras-le-corps (1993) and Les Disparates (1994), Charmatz began creating his own works: Aatt enen tionon (1996), a vertical piece for three dancers, herses (une lente introduction) (1997), a piece for five dancers and a cellist set to music by Helmut Lachenmann. In 1999, he choreographed Con forts fleuve (1999), a group piece performed to texts by John Giorno and musics by Otomo Yoshihide. In 2002, he premiered héâtre-élévision, a provocative installation piece influenced by russian Matryoshka nesting dolls that was designed to be seen by one spectator at a time. In 2006, he premiered régi, a performance with Julia Cima, Raimund Hoghe and himself, as well as Quintette Cercle (2006), a live version of héâtre-élévision. La danseuse malade (2008) performed by Jeanne Balibar and Boris Charmatz, was inspired by the texts of Tatsumi Hijikata, founder of butoh dance. One of his latest works, 50 years of dance (2009), is performed by former dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Conceived like a choreographic flip-book, it takes the book “Merce Cunningham, Fifty Years” by David Vaughan as its score. Roman Photo (2009) is the version for non-dancers, students and amateurs and Flip Book (2009) the one for professional dancers. Levée des conflits (2010) is a performance for 24 dancers and 25 mouvements. Associate artist of the 2011 Festival d'Avignon, Boris Charmatz creates at the Cour d'Honneur of the Pope's Palace enfant, a piece for 26 children, 9 dancers and 3 machines.
Since 1997, in collaboration with Angèle Le Grand, he developed varied projects within the association edna. The purpose of such propositions was to create a space open to multiple experiments: thematic sessions, production of films (Les Disparates by César Vayssié, Horace Benedict by Dimitri Chamblas and Aldo Lee, Une lente introduction by Boris Charmatz), Hors-série programmes proposed by the edna team (La chaise and Visitations by Julia Cima, Jachères by Vincent Dupont), production of installations (Programme court avec essorage), organisation of exhibitions (Complexe, Statuts), and trans-media projects (Ouvrée - artistes en alpages, Entraînements-série d'actions artistiques, Facultés, Education).
While maintaining an extensive touring schedule, he also participates in improvisational events on a regular basis (recently with Saul Williams, Archie Shepp and Han Bennink) and continues to pursue his performing career (with Odile Duboc for Projet de la Matière and Trois boléros, as part of the piece d'un Faune (éclats) by the Albrecht Knust Quartet and with Fanny de Chaillé for Underwear), to name a few.
From 2002 to 2004, while an artist-in-residence at the Centre national de la danse in Pantin and driven by the idea of exploring the theme of education in depth, he developped the Bocal project, a nomadic and ephemeral school that brought together students from different backgrounds. He was visiting professor at Berlin's Universität der Künste, where he contributed to the creation of a new dance curriculum which was installed in 2007.
He is the co-author of a book with Isabelle Launay: Entretenir / à propos d'une danse contemporaine (published jointly by the Centre National de la Danse and Les Presses du Réel) published in English in 2011 under the title undertraining / On A Contemporary Dance (Ed. Les Presses du Réel). Boris Charmatz is also the author of “Je suis une école” (2009, Ed. Les Prairies ordinaires) related to the adventure Bocal.
Director since 2009 of the Rennes and Britanny National Choreographic Centre, Boris Charmatz proposes to transform it into a Dancing Museum of a new kind. A manifesto is at the origin of this museum, which has received, amongst others, the projects préfiguration, expo zéro, rebutoh, service commandé (on commission), brouillon (rough draft), Jérôme Bel en 3 sec. 30 sec. 3 min. 30 min et 3 h., Petit Musée de la danse, « Rétrospective » par Xavier Le Roy and has travelled to Saint Nazaire, Singapore, Utrecht, Avignon and New York.
He creates the piece manger at the Ruhrtriennale in Germany on September 23rd, 2014, danse de nuit as part of the Built-Festival of Geneva in 2016, then 10 000 gestes in 2017 at the Volksbühne of Berlin.
Source : Boris Charmatz’s website
More information :
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
Roman Photo [remontage 2015]
Choreography : Boris Charmatz
Interpretation : Gaël Alix, Lise Chapron, Damien Chesnot, Léa Guilmineau, Elliot Janvier, Céline Léger, Liz Libéral, Nina Louis, Rose Pinto Maïa, Loëva Marsal, Mathilde Richard, Audrey Schaffer, Keira Sternick, Wildina Tunga Vumbe
Sound : Jérémie Sananes
Other collaborations : Extrait chorégraphique remonté par le groupe Boutures (Combourg), dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2014) - Transmission Olga Dukhovnaya - Assistant Wilson Le Personnic
Duration : 15 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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