CND – Centre nationale de la danse
CPR – Center for Performance Research
Draf – David Roberts Art Foundation
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporaine
Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
Mercat de les flors – DanceHouse
MOCA – The Museum of Contemporary Art
Dec 2022 /Jan 2023
Intransito is a collaboration between Luigia Riva and Clay Apenouvon, as an extension of their project IN/CONTRO, created in March 2019. “The performance explores moments of release and attentiveness, in a performance in which the six dancers express states of perpetual imbalance, between falling and flying. Caught between weight and lightness, each one is both supporting and supported, in a sextet of variable geometries, …
Based on « The Order of Discourse » by Michel Foucault On the 2nd December 1970, Michel Foucault gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, the first lesson for which a rewriting subsists, entitled L’Ordre du discours. Fanny de Chaillé recreates the event and puts together a discursive performance destined for university amphitheatres. The effect of this re-enacting of Foucault’s words is to …
The group piece Sidewalk by the choreographer Volmir Cordeiro is a way of evoking metamorphosis as the only means of attaining freedom. Using the figure of the mask, and its capacity to reveal the true behind the hidden, the piece is to be experienced as a form of euphoria in which the overflowing energy of the six dancers opens up the possibility of a theatre of …
Following on from a series of pieces in emblematic places of modern architecture in the USA, the Californian artists return to Paris with the Modern Living project. Taking over two iconic venues designed by Le Corbusier, they explore the sensuality nesting in the shadows of modernism. Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and the Apartment-studio are two living spaces which are just as much to do with the invention …