Boire les longs oublis
2012 - Director : Simon, Nicolas
Choreographer(s) : Richard, Alban (France)
Present in collection(s): CCN de Caen en Normandie , Maison de la danse
Video producer : centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
Boire les longs oublis
2012 - Director : Simon, Nicolas
Choreographer(s) : Richard, Alban (France)
Present in collection(s): CCN de Caen en Normandie , Maison de la danse
Video producer : centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
Boire les longs oublis
Boire les longs oublis (Drink the forgotten things) is inspired by Pirate and Diverts Arnold Böcklin's Painting : The Island of the Dead, which inspired Serge Rachmaninov's eponymous work. The choreographic piece is built in three movements: an exhibition, developments and variations, a re-exhibition and a coda.
Three spectacular forms: oratorio, cinematographic fragments, nocturnal can be seen from the same story of Valérie Sigward. By proposing a work around narration, a real process of transformation, this work by Alban Richard focuses on the notions of landmark phenomena and labyrinthine constructions. The text written for Boire les longs oublis develops multiple possibilities of interpretations, for it's a choreography of conflicts. No version is consistent and yet the disaster has already occurred ...
Source: CCN de Caen, Normandy
Richard, Alban
Alban Richard discovered contemporary dance while he was pursuing literary and musical studies. From the late 1990s, he worked for various choreographers such as Odile Duboc, Olga de Soto and Rosalind Crisp.
In 2000, Alban Richard founded Ensemble l'Abrupt for which he created about thirty very different pieces, always in close interaction with a musical work whose writing and formal structure he questioned. Consequently, each creation opens up new research and a new performance style, setting itself apart from the previous one. The way he develops his shows, using restricted improvisations to devise the work directly on stage, encourages the performers to become creators of their own dance.
Alban Richard has collaborated with the Alla francesca ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM and the Cairn, Instant Donné and Alternance ensembles, as well as with composers Arnaud Rebotini, Sebastian Rivas, Erwan Keravec, Jérôme Combier, Laurent Perrier, Raphaël Cendo, Robin Leduc, Paul Clift, Wen Liu and Matthew Barnson.
A prolific choreographer, Alban Richard is regularly invited by ballets and companies, both internationally (Canada, Lithuania, Norway) and in France, to create commissioned works.
Since 2015 he has been artistic director of the centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, with a project based on both his practice as an author and on connecting with the territory and its inhabitants.
More information : https://ccncn.eu/english/
Simon, Nicolas
Having picked up a passion for the audiovisual at an early age from his two brothers, Nicolas Simon quickly developed a love of cinema and began making short films in his teenage years. He studied at the audiovisual ESRA school in Rennes, where he made two 16mm short films. In 2004, he met Emmanuelle Vo-Din, who introduced him to the world of contemporary dance.
In 2008 he completed Making Rainbow, a documentary retracing the five months over which the first edition of the performance Rainbow was created. He then co-directed Le Grand Éléphant - L’Aventure des Constructeurs, filmed over two years in the workshop of La Machine as they designed and built the Grand Elephant of Île de Nantes: a giant, animatronic elephant. Alongside regular collaborations with several choreographers, including, Alban Richard, Margot Dorléans, Sylvain Riéjou, Daniel Dobbels as well as the companies Le Pôle and PJPP, Nicolas Simon has made several documentaries, including Les Constructeurs d’Éole and Je me souviens.
centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
A place for dance open to everyone, where people come to see, dance and talk.
The centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie is a space of shared projects that questions the world in which we live, a receptive place where dance is at the heart of an artistic, political and civic-minded vision. It is a centre for the creation, hosting, production and dissemination of choreographic works, a hub that acts as a resource for training and research. It is a place shared with artists, residents, associations and cultural institutions, a place open to artistic creation and the contemporary repertoire.
Awakening curiosity, stimulating the desire for knowledge, opening up to differences, sharing real artistic, intellectual and human experiences – these are the challenges identified by Alban Richard for the centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie.
Boire les longs oublis
Artistic direction / Conception : Alban Richard
Interpretation : Nicolas Chaigneau, Mélanie Cholet, Martha Moore, Alban Richard
Text : Valérie Sigward, Fernando Pessoa, The broken window, in Poèmes anglais
Additionnal music : Laurent Perrier ; Sergueï Rachmaninov : L’Ile des morts (opus 29) ; Benjamin Britten : Simple symphony
Lights : Valérie Sigward
Costumes : Corinne Petitpierre
Sound : Félix Perdreau
Other collaborations : Bijoux Francky Berhault - Conseillère en analyse fonctionnelle du corps dans le mouvement dansé Nathalie Schulmann
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : production déléguée centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie coproduction ensemble l’Abrupt, Le Prisme – Communauté d’Agglomération de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Festival Instances – Chalon-sur-Saône, CCN du Havre Haute-Normandie dans le cadre de l’accueil-studio. Accueil-studio au CND de Pantin. Avec le soutien de l’ADAMI. Remerciements à Karine Litchman, Simon Renaud et Frédéric Birault
Duration : 2h
Boire les longs oublis
https://ccncn.eu/evenement/boire-les-longs-oublis/
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