BALLADE / creation 1996

Choreography Sylvie Giron

“Ballade” is the first solo that Sylvie Giron has choreographed and whose outline carries us instantaneously into the hazards of space, its flexibility, its secret traverses. “Because in a highly-particular way, Sylvie Giron is one of those performers whose spirit emanates right down to the fingertips whenever they slash the air with a fleeting gesture, a punctuation mark, a nuance, and who, when highlighting the attack of a gesture, its liberation, its rhythm and frequently its very music with a bold stroke, allow us to see what is beyond the visible...”

Laurent Barre, July 1996

“Sylvie Giron has unleashed enthusiasm by making the nerve, the impertinence and the blossoming youth of her incredibly accomplished, adult dance tremble; an ever-so exact and assured dance that leads her unequivocal pattern to be constantly in touch with the lightness of caresses. Her “Ballade” applies to poise in life; a determined approach, of a gaze fixed on the other. It is short, and extravagantly elegant. Acquiesced surrender, a burst of intentions: gesticulating cultivated freedom”.

Source : Sylvie Giron

Credits

Chorégraphie et interprétation Sylvie Giron
Musiques Carlos d'Alesio « India Song » Paroles Marguerite Duras Chanson Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Jaubert « Java de la rue chaude »
Extrait du film « Vivement Dimanche » de François Truffaut
Lumières à la création Nicolas Guellier, puis Serge Dees
Remerciements: CCNT/Daniel Larrieu, et José Vals

Video direction : Charles Picq
Production : Maison de la Danse

Updating : September 2012

Sylvie Giron danced for ten years in the compagnie Bagouet and in the companies founded by Daniel Larrieu, Geneviève Sorin and Jean-Marc Forêt, Catherine Diverrès, Susan Buirge, Bernard Glandier, Philippe Decouflé, Mathilde Monnier, Thomas Lebrun and Foofwa d'Imobilité.

She was co-head of the pedagogical section and the vocational integration unit of the Dominique Bagouet-Montpellier National Choreographic Centre along with Bernard Glandier, from 1991 to 1993. She taught regularly in a variety of contemporary and classical companies, in regional and national conservatories, running workshops for contemporary dancers and actors.

A founder member of Les Carnets Bagouet Association, she contributed several times to Dominique Bagouet's choreographies.
Sylvie Giron has also created a number of choreographies, including Ballade, a solo for the Choré-Graphique Festival in Tours in 1996; Plupart du temps, for the Danse(s) Festival at the Quartz in Brest in 1998; Ici et là, co-created with Yann Raballand, in October 2005; Petits matins, a trio with Daniel Larrieu and Jean-Charles Di Zazzo who performed with her, in 2007; Dedans dehors, a choreographic promenade in natural spaces in 2008; Conférence dansée with Jean-Charles Di Zazzo at the Lux in Valence in 2009; Une parcelle at the Magnan Theatre in Nice in 2010 and Des danses blanches, based on one of Dominique Bagouet's choreographies, in Montpellier. She also choreographed Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's musical Jeanne et le garçon formidable (1998). In 2000, she sketched the dance for Drôle de Félix and then in 2005, the danced sequences for Crustacées et Coquillages by the two aforementioned directors.

Source : The company Les carnets Bagouet 's website

More information

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