An extract remodelled by the L’Autre Nous choreographic group (Privas) artistic manager Émilie Blache, as part of the “Danse en amateur et répertoire” programme (2016) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
With ages ranging between 11 and 16, the nine female dancers of the L’Autre Nous choreographic group, created in 2009 by Émilie Blache in Privas (Ardèche), attend, alongside classical and jazz technique classes, improvisation, research and composition workshops. They claim a cross-cultural style and enjoy confronting the tension generated by creation. They participated in the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme in 2014 as part of a collaboration with the choreographer Josette Baïz. 

The project
Tackling the piece La Mandoline, l’œillet et le bambou, choreographed in 1999 by Dominique Rebaud, corresponds to the group’s mixed choreographic approach. Somewhere in between Roaring Twenties inspiration, jazz and hip-hop, the writing of the show, originally intended for men, has been adapted to the group of female participants by its enhancement of femininity. The choreographer’s open-mindedness, the generosity with which she combines styles and universes while respecting every individual, is in complete harmony with the company’s philosophy.  

The choreographer
Present on the choreographic scene since the early 1980s, Dominique Rebaud was one of the members of the famous group, Lolita, before creating her own company, Camargo, in 1992. With some twenty shows to her credit, she has extended and invigorated the instruction she received in the early 1980s from the American master, Alwin Nikolais, at the Centre national de danse contemporaine d’Angers. Curious about all dance forms, she regularly collaborates with hip-hop interpreters. In 2014, she inaugurated the Danses ouvertes festival, dedicated to the new forms of representation in participative, immersive and interactive dances. 

Present on the choreographic scene since the early 1980s, Dominique Rebaud was one of the members of the famous group, Lolita, before creating her own company, Camargo, in 1992. With some twenty shows to her credit, she has extended and invigorated the instruction she received in the early 1980s from the American master, Alwin Nikolais, at the Centre national de danse contemporaine d’Angers. Curious about all dance forms, she regularly collaborates with hip-hop interpreters. In 2014, she inaugurated the Danses ouvertes festival, dedicated to the new forms of representation in participative, immersive and interactive dances. 

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

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