Bal des genies
Bal des genies
La Bal des génies
Guicheney, Pierre
French writer and director. After a theatrical and anthropological training at the Teatr Laboratorium by Jerzy Grotowski (1978-1981), Pierre Guicheney participated in the creation in Italy of the artistic collective Gruppo Internazionale l'Avventura (1981-1983). In 1981 he started researches with the Gnawa brotherhood of Morocco. He worked for a few years for cinema and television in and around Cinecittà: dubbing, subtitling Italian film heritage, production, video art (Rome, 1984-1993). Back in France in 1994, he began a long cycle of research and creation (articles, books, documentary films, exhibitions) on popular memory, folklore and healing traditions in Mayenne. Independent reporter for Geo Magazine from 1995 to 2008, he travels in Europe, Africa and South America. The meeting of Susanne Wenger and Yoruba artists from New Sacred Art in Nigeria in 1997 will mark the beginning of another cycle of work inspired by the Yoruba sacred arts. Author of books with strong documentary and anthropological footprints often made in collaboration with photographers, he has created documentary films for various French television channels since 1997. Books published by Adams, Aubanel, Ennoïa, Hermé, Hoebeke, La Martinière, Le Chêne , Sensibili alle foglie, Siloë, Land of Mist. Films broadcast on France 3, France O, LMTV, Medisat, TLT.
Source : Pierre Guicheney
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Le bal des génies
Artistic direction / Conception : Pierre Guicheney
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Les films du Village, TLT
Dance out loud
Yield Variations on dissuasive urban furniture
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
40 years of dance and music
[1930-1960]: Neoclassicism in Europe and the United States, entirely in tune with the times
The “Nouvelle Danse Française” of the 1980s
In France, at the beginning of the 1980s, a generation of young people took possession of the dancing body to sketch out their unique take on the world.
Body and conflicts
A look on the bonds which appear to emerge between the dancing body and the world considered as a living organism.
James Carlès
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
When reality breaks in
Butoh
On 24th May 1959, Tatsumi Hijikata portrayed the character of the "Man" in the first presentation of a play called Kinjiki (Forbidden Colours).
The Ankoku Butoh was born,
States of the body
Explanation of the term « State of the body » when it’s about dance.
Dance in Quebec: Untamed Bodies
First part of the Parcours about dance in Quebec, these extracts present how bodies are being used in a very physical way.