Une Douce Imprudence
2013 - Director : Laly, Sophie
Choreographer(s) : Thieû Niang, Thierry (France) Lamoureux, Éric (France)
Present in collection(s): VIADANSE Direction Fattoumi/Lamoureux - CCN de Bourgogne Franche-Comté à Belfort
Video producer : CCNC/BN
Une Douce Imprudence
2013 - Director : Laly, Sophie
Choreographer(s) : Thieû Niang, Thierry (France) Lamoureux, Éric (France)
Present in collection(s): VIADANSE Direction Fattoumi/Lamoureux - CCN de Bourgogne Franche-Comté à Belfort
Video producer : CCNC/BN
Une Douce Imprudence
(creation 2013)
Meeting again, after such a long time, and talking about ourselves… Articulating what motivates us, giving and receiving, sharing thoughts, feelings and “little details”, and daring to take risks… Today, in these times, as if torn from an age rushing headlong onwards…
This duet is the fruit of intuition and desire reinforced by our interactions since the connection we first established twenty years ago. We have brought together the conditions for this encounter in a precise context, in an atmosphere conductive to listening, observing and sharing sensations, in a space supportive of our making ourselves available for whatever may happen, as if in the “gentle imprudence” of the choreography's title… Rapidly we felt the need to call upon an external element, which quickly took the form of a flowing material, soft and warm. An apparently “poor” material, whose hidden richness is revealed in its power of metamorphosis. Transformed, it becomes an imaginary landscape or an ephemeral sculpture garden; it wraps the body to invoke femininity; it twists and hardens to the joint forces deployed; it allows an entangled melee of bodies to escape; it returns to the shape of a simple discarded heap before welcoming our two shared beings.
We conceived the piece as a choreographic poem connecting different physical presences, inviting (each other), experiencing (one another), calling out (to each other), in that fraternal disposition of humanity to pay attention to the Other, to others, to space, to objects, to sounds, to the world as if traversed with the idea of caring.
And then there is the exceptionally singular voice stimulating our movement. That of singer Sidsel Endresen.
Eric Lamoureux / Thierry Thieû Niang
Choreographic Poem composed and performed by Eric Lamoureux and Thierry Thieû Niang Accompanied by Héla Fattoumi Music Sidsel Endresen Lighting Consultant Xavier Lazarini
Executive Production Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen/Basse-Normandie (CCNC/BN) Co-Production La Comédie de Valence, centre dramatique national Drôme-Ardêche
dernière mise à jour : avril 2013
Thieû Niang, Thierry
In parallel with his creative journey, Thierry Thieû Niang, dancer and choreographer initiates research workshops for professionals as well as amateurs, children and seniors, people with autism or those detained in France and abroad.
Officer of the arts and letters, winner of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs in Vietnam, of the Unesco-Aschberg Foundation in Kenya and of the Choreographer Prize SACD 2019, he works with art schools, higher conservatories of dramatic art and choreography, neighborhood associations, hospitals and prisons in different cities.
For the 19/20 season he was guest artist at the Avicenne hospital and at the MC93 in Bobigny, at the TNP in Villeurbanne and at the Lille Opera.
Source: Thierry Thieû Niang
More information: www.thierry-niang.fr
Lamoureux, Éric
Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux founded the Compagnie FATTOUMI/ LAMOUREUX in 1988. Their first work Husaïs was awarded the prize for best first piece at the Bagnolet International Choreographic Competition in 1990, then their trio Après-midi received the “New Talents” prize from the SACD in 1991. These two pieces placed them as leaders of the new generation of contemporary choreographers and brought them international renown.
A space for research whose source is the intermingling of their individual features. From piece to piece, they mine the intrinsic intelligence of the body, its power to reveal meaning, which can also be thought as a part of movement. Several other important pieces were created in the same vein as Husaïs: Si loin que l’on aille (at the Théâtre de la Bastille and the Théâtre de la Ville, 1992); Fiesta (commissioned by the Avignon Festival, 1992); Asile Poétique (at the Théâtre de la Ville, 2000) based on texts by the poet Antonio Ramos Rosa; Wasla, ce qui relie… (at the Lyon Dance Biennial, 1998); Vita Nova (at the Grande Halle de la Villette, 2000) with the 11th graduating class of the National Center for Circus Arts. These pieces show choreographic work linked to the ideas of mastery/ nonmastery, strength/ fragility, minimalism/ performance, a dance whose expressive weight is charged by a “graphic energy.”
They were appointed directors of the CCN of Caen/ Basse-Normandie in 2004, where they continued their work with pieces focusing on societal issues. These works were La Madâ’a (at the Arsenal in Metz, 2004) with the Joubran brothers, Palestinian virtuosi on the oud; Pièze (a “pressure measurement”) and La danse de Pièze (at the Festival Dialogue de corps, Ouagadougou, 2006 and the Théâtre de la Bastille), about the idea of “homosensuality” in the Arab-Muslim world; Just to dance… (the Espace des Arts in Chalon-sur-Saône, 2010), a piece about the idea of “creolization” developed by Édouard Glissant; MANTA, a solo created at the Montpellier Festival in 2009 and performed on tour (Tokyo, Séoul, Berlin, Tunis, Brussels, Stockholm, Oslo), based on the problem inherent in wearing the niqab; Lost in burqa, (at the Festival danse d’ailleurs, 2011) a performance for 8 dancers, based on the “clothing-sculptures” by the Moroccan plastician Majida Khattari; Masculines (at the Arsenal de Metz, 2013) and on the representations of the feminine on both sides of the Mediterranean.
They are reactivating a choreographic research recharging itself with the expressive and poetic potential of dance. Une douce imprudence co-signed with Thierry Thieû Niang (at the Festival Ardanthé 2013, and the Théâtre National de Chaillot, 2014) on the idea of “Care”; Waves, a commission for the Swedish opera company NorrlandsOperan and its symphony orchestra, under the auspices of Umeå 2014, European cultural capital, for which they are associated with the Swedish singer and composer Peter von Poehl.
They also chose to step outside theatres to work in situ in other reactive contexts. In February 2009, they created the performance Stèles as part of a special “Nocturne”, a commission from the Louvre Museum. In 2008 they created Promenade at the Grand Palais, imagining a dialogue with the monumental sculptures of Richard Serra. In January 2012 they created Circle, inviting the audience into the center of a circular structure where dance goes wild with the massed collective energy of 26 professional and amateur dancers. In 2013, as part of the Normandy Impressionist Festival they stepped inside the exhibition “Summer at the water’s edge” at the Beaux-Arts Museum of Caen for a choreographic Flânerie (wandering).
Creation of the Festival Danse d’Ailleurs (Dance from Elsewhere) (2005) Beginning in 2005, they founded the Festival Danse d’Ailleurs whose vocation is to put back into perspective the idea of universalism while questioning referent frameworks for modernity in art, relating to cultural horizons. The first four editions focused on artists from the vast, diverse African continent and brought international recognition to the event, and the following editions opened as far as Asia, linking with the Hot Summer Festival in Kyoto, Japan.
Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux are fully committed to the promotion and the defense of choreographic art. From 2001 to 2004, Héla Fattoumi was the dance vice president of the SACD (Société des Auteurs Compositeurs Dramatiques). She was also in charge of programming the section called ”Vif du sujet” at the Avignon Festival. From 2006 – 2008, she was the President of the ACCN (Association of the National Choreographic Centers). From 2010 – 2013 Éric Lamoureux took over the Presidency; he is now the vice president. From 2013 to 2015, Héla Fattoumi has been the president delegated to long-term planning at the SYNDEAC.
In March 2015 Héla Fattoumi and Éric Lamoureux were named Directors of the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté in Belfort, for which they are developing their VIADANSE project.
Laly, Sophie
Born in 1973, Sophie Laly graduated from the Dijon School of Fine Arts in Dijon, France. She creates video installations and videos that question and dissect notions of time and space-time. Her work is inspirational, spanning several different fields such as cinema, biology and physics. She became a film projectionist in Paris in 1999. Because of personal interest, she has developed a close connection with contemporary dance, creating films for choreographers ; Daniel Larrieu, Alain Buffard, Christian Rizzo, Emmanuelle Huynh, Latifa Laâbissi, Boris Charmatz, Christian Rizzo, David Wampach, Deborah Hay, Marco Berettini, Yves-Noel Genod, Carlotta Sagna, Lionel Hoche, Laure Bonicel, Thierry Baë, Sylvain Prunenec, as well as for the SACD (since 2007, for the « Sujets à Vifs » at the Festival d'Avignon).
She has participated as artistic collaborator and/or video artist in different projects : Emmanuelle Huynh (Ligne d'arrivée, 2004), Rachid Ouramdame (A l'oeil nu, 2003/2005, Les morts pudiques, 2004, Cover, 2005), Richard Siegal (Stranger/stranger report, 2006), Daniel Larrieu, (video-controls for Waterproof, 2006), Latifa Laabissi (Habiter, 2007), Dysfashionai - adventure in post-style (Luxembourg 2007), Elisabeth Naud and Luc Poux, architects (spatial design of a slideshow for their exhibition at the Galerie d'Architecture Paris - 2008), has directed filmed portraits for the Agence Pargade Architecte for the exhibition Subjectiver le lieu at the Galerie d'Architecture Paris (2012), has worked with Kader Attia for the editing of his videographic performances since 2011. Since 2008, she has collaborated with Christian Rizzo as video artist and assistant director on several projects : mon amour (2008), ni cap, ni grand canyon (2009, for the Opéra de Lyon), l'oubli, toucher du bois (2010), le bénéfice du doute (2012), Erwartung, Pierrot Lunaire, La Voix humaine (2010, operas produced by the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse) and Tannhäuser (2012, production of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse). She created also with Christian Rizzo an installation / concert néo-fiction (2012) for the festival On the boards at Seattle.
She has been commissioned by the Musée de la danse / CCN Rennes/Bretagne - Boris Charmatz, to direct a film about the children of the project Enfants, a creation by Boris Charmatz for the Festival d'Avignon (2011). In 2011, she got a Fundation Beaumarchais grant for the writing of a feature film. PA, the shortest of her films, has just been rewarded by the CHERIES-CHERIS 2012, International Gay, lesbian, bi and trans film Festival in Paris (LGBT).
FILMOGRAPHY
Dance films :
more than 60 between 2002-2012
Art video :
2011 : big crunch
2010 : Singel man
2010 : LESS THAN A MINUTE
2008 : PA - Awards: Festival Chéries Chéris, Paris 2012 –Very short film / Nokia Paris-Roma Contest 2008
2007 : nous ne sommes pas
2005 : le vent a recommencé et de nouveau le ciel est devenu noir
2004 : N/EVER - prizewinning film – « Entraînements “ - Film And Video Contest - Association Edna and Siemens Arts Program
2002 : EVERY-
1999 : « on croit toujours qu'ailleurs c'est mieux » - interactive movie with a remote control
Art installation :
1999 : DON'T LET ME DOWN
1999 : « si tu savais à quel point… » Pénélope, 1999.
1998 : Trouble taking place
1998 : How could you dare ?
1998 : Repère. Point de départ.
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