Paris Performance Calendar is a work-in-progress “dance syllabus”, complemented by essays, articles and interviews from The Best American Poetry and other publications.
PERFORMANCES & CREATORS TO LOOK FOR ON THE ROAD TO SUMMER 2019 [by Tracy Danison]
The run-up to Summer features many dance and dance performance and theater performance pieces that will figure in live programs into 2020.
L’ILLUSTRE THEATRE DES FRERES SABBATINI - theater of objects • 2015 • Yannick Toussaint - Cie Histoire d'Eux • 30 minutes • Théâtre du Fil de l’eau – 20, rue Délizy, Pantin, 18 May, 15h, 16h, 17h, 18h, 19h and 21h; 19 May 14h, 15h, 16h, 17h, 18h and 19h • 10e biennale internationale des arts de la marionette Α The greatest plays of the ages on an traditional Italian stage just two-and-a-half-feet wide by collective Cie Histoire d'Eux, led by Yannick Toussaint since 2005. Marionette specialists, Histoire has used many different approaches, including shadow play (Nasreddine et autres histoires - 2012), black light (Sale temps en eaux troubles… - 2013), and video and magic (Dans la bouche - 2018). Ω Director: Yannick Toussaint / Performers: Yann Berriet, Yannick Toussaint, Laurent Diwo, Agnès Briatte / Scenography: Yannick Toussaint, Charline Dereims with aid from Valentin Monin et Léo Taulelle / Graphic design: Laurent Diwo / Music: Ludovic Derrière and Jean-Nicolas Mathieu
Yannick Toussaint - Cie Histoire d'Eux performance calendar
TOUT SEMBLAIT IMMOBILE – Theater performance • 2013 • Nathalie Béasse • 70 minutes • Théâtre de la Bastille, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25 May, 18h30 • OCCUPATION#3 Α Continuing an exploration of the roots of her endeavor, Nathalie Béasse decocts a story of experts confounded and inexplicable transitions towards… narrative and, once again, the fear, gladness and magics of childhood. Nathalie Béasse’s creations include an extensive in situ series entitled mes petites météorities. All the works presented during occupations are based on previous creations except aux éclats, a work-in-progress. Ω Concept, script and set design: Nathalie Béasse in collaboration with, Étienne Fague, Érik Gerken and Camille Trophème / Lighting: Natalie Gallard / Music: Camille Trophème / Set: Étienne Baillou / Painting: Julien Parsy
ROSES – Theater performance • 2014 • Nathalie Béasse • 70 minutes • Théâtre de la Bastille, 21 and 22 May, 20h ; 23 - 25 May, 21h • OCCUPATION#3 Α roses is free adapation of Richard III, providing the instrument of translation from sensation and fairy tale towards examination of the human condition with an experiment in literary-figure role-playing. Nathalie Béasse’s creations include an extensive in situ series entitled mes petites météorities. All the works presented during occupations are based on previous creations except aux éclats, a work-in-progress. Ω Concept, script and set design: Nathalie Béasse in collaboration with Étienne Fague, Érik Gerken, Béatrice Godicheau, Clément Goupille and Anne Reymann / Lighting: Natalie Gallard / Music: Nicolas Chavet and Julien Parsy
SOFTCORE – A HARDCORE ENCOUNTER • 2018 • Lisa Vereertbrugghen • 45 minutes • La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, · 22 & 23 May 2019, 20h • Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales en Seine Saint Denis Α Lisa Vereertbrugghen explores how the “softcore” (body) mixes it up with “hardcore”, the heart-seizing techno-style music that vibrâtes through a dancer at 200 beat per minute. With live music remixed with her own voice, she reonstitutes an expérience of a body that is porous, supple, ready to adapt in a poetic and analytic tableau vivant. Ω Concept, choreography and performance: Lisa Vereertbrugghen / Sound: Michael Langeder / Lighting: Vera Martins / Artistic advisors: Madison Bycroft, Sabine Cmelniski, Nestor Garcia Diaz
Lisa Vereertbrugghen performance calendar
CO-PULATION – Theater of objects • 2019 • Fu Le - Cie Tetrapode • 60 minutes • ECAM - Théâtre du Kremlin-Bicêtre, 24 May, 20h30 • 10e biennale internationale des arts de la marionette Α Choreography working around the quest for differentiation - emotion, sensation, gesture - to escape solitude. Fu Le and the cie Tetrapode migrated from Taiwan to Paris and are known for their carefully elaborated scenography ; Fu Le is a performance artists as well as sculptor, author and photographer. His other dance performances include A distant land (2017) and Raining ropes (2015) Ω Choreography: Fu Le / Performers: Cie Tetrapode / Production: Cie Tetrapode ECAM Théâtre du Kremlin-Bicêtre
STEREO • 2019 • Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard – Cie Le principe d’incertitude • 50 minutes • MC93 – Bobigny, 25 May2019, 19h 30; 26 May, 18h • Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales en Seine Saint Denis Α Stereo – performed by Liz Santoro – explores the interaction of movement and the signs that produce and surround it. As she dances her solo piece, a video feed allows the dance performer Cynthia Koppe to write and present her thoughts and feelings in real time from New York; a voice synthesizer enables Santoro to hear and respond to Koppe through movement. The complex of language-body-movement and mind through the filter of scientific notions is a fundamental theme of Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard’s excellent work, which turns out to be among the most emotionally poignant dance performances available today. Ω Concept: Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard with Cynthia Koppe / Performer live: Liz Santoro / Performer distant: Cynthia Koppe Music: Greg Beller / Costumes: Reid Bartelme
Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard – Cie Le principe d’incertitude performance calendar
NEAR • 2018 • Ballet Cullberg & Eleanor Bauer • 60 minutes • MC93 – Bobigny, 25 May 21h & 26 May, 16h30 • Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales en Seine Saint Denis Α The performers of the Ballet Cullberg invite a choreographer to work provisionally with them and, after a trial period, decide whether to go on to finish the project. Near, a piece on gesture, the individual and the group, and the relation between a broad variety of subjects and matters and persons the result of this process. Ω Concept : Eleanor Bauer, Jonatan Leandoer Håstad & Yung Lean / Choreography: Eleanor Bauer / Performers: Ballet Cullberg : Adam Schütt, Anand Bolder, Camille Prieux, Daniel Sjökvist, Eleanor Campbell, Gesine Moog, Giacomo Citton, Katie Jacobson, Mohamed Y. Shika, Suelem de Oliveira da Silva, Sylvie Gehin Karlsson, Unn Faleide / Music: Jonatan Leandoer Håstad & Yung Lean with Frederik Valentin / Scene: Josefin Hinders with Linnea Birkelund / Costumes: Pontus Pettersson/ Lights: Jonatan Winbo / Rehearsals : Lisa Drake
Eleanor Bauer performance calendar
WALK#3 • 2019 • Joanne Leighton • +/- 240 minutes • Starting points: Regard du cygne, Micadanses (near Saint Paul in the Marais), l’Atelier de Paris (at the Cartoucherie) and Canal St Martin – Musée nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration (Porte Dorée), 1 June, 17h • June Events • Walking, Anne Thérèse de Keersmaeker believes, is the purest form of dance. Walking is the first of our gestures that turns ordinary moments into intentional and unique movement. De Keersmaeker’s objective for last September’s Slow Walk was to “meditate” the urban environment and re-appropriate it. Joanne Leighton’s Walk#3 invites participants to consider “Step by step, what world are we making?”. The walk from the Regard du cygne dance-performance space, a bit over five kilometers, which I recommend, brings you through working class, gentrified and immigrant neighborhoods that represent pretty well Paris (and France) hors tourisme today. The walk is followed at 19h with the in situ performance 9000 pas (“9000 steps”) at the Musée nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration. Ω Choreography & direction: Joanne Leighton / Choeographer-performers: Lauren Bolze, Marion Carriau, Alexandre Da Silva, Marie Fonte, Marie-Pierre Jaux & Arthur Perole / Music : Drumming, Steve Reich / Sound: Peter Crosbie / Lighting: Sylvie Mélis / Costumes : Alexandra Bertaut / Set(s): Tovo & Jamil / Production: WLDN
Joanne Leighton performance calendar
RITUEL POUR UNE GÉOGRAPHIE DU SENSIBLE – Dance performance and installation, complemented with GÉOGRAPHIE CORPORELLE, an apprenticeship in touch • 2018 • Julie Nioche• 60 minutes/installation • Maison des Métallos, 2 June, 15h – 18h ; 3 June, 14h – 17h ; 7 June, 14h – 17h ; 8 June, 18h – 21h30 ; Géographie corporelle, 7 & 22 June, all day : • Α Julie Nioche’s dance performance installation invites spectators to become co-creators in a ritual in order to make their bodies their own country with a ritual that enables easy passage over their boundaries of imagination, psychology and perception. Accompanied by dance performers, up to forty participants use installations called “At home”, “On the way” and “From the center” that help them consider how they embody their bodies and relations with others. Miléna Gilabert created Géographie and is accompanied for the apprenticeship sessions and aided by Blandine Minot Stora, Cécile Brousse and Cécile Ravenel ; sessions last 20 minutes. The ritualization concept of Rituel has its roots in the experience of Filiz Sizanli and Mustafa Kaplan, who founded Taldans, a theater research laboratory in Istabul in 2003. During the violent repression of the 2013 pro-democracy demonstrations in Turkey artist-activists such as Sizanli and Kaplan created meeting and assembly spaces that enabled continued human exchange and toleration in the midst of the violence. Julie Nioche is a dancer, choreographer and osteopath. She founded and heads up the association A.I.M.E., which looks to spread knowledge about the body to the general public and which has developed Rituel. Nioche’s other recent works include Nos amours (2016), Qu’est-ce qui vous amène? (2017), La taille de nos âmes (2018) and Rituel pour une géographie du sensible (2018). Ω Concept and performers: Julie Nioche, Filiz Sizanli et Mustafa Kaplan / Music: Alexandre Meyer / Set : Laure Delamotte-Legrand with the aid of Vincent Gadras / Installation management : Max Potiron
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