Nothing surpasses mid-air choreography. With Corps extrêmes, Rachid Ouramdane addresses this quest for idealism with a group of acrobats and flyers. 

To rise and soar, and even glide. From time immemorial, the desire to  “dance” in the air has fired the imagination of many. With Corps extrêmes,  Rachid Ouramdane aims to “focus in on the fascination with the ideas of  flight, states of weightlessness, and suspension”, all of which are  moments when one leaves the Earth. The choreographer has brought  together acrobats, flyers and athletes, some of whom he met while in  production on Möbius by the company XY. “Through aerial  choreography performed by these adventurous athletes and artists, the  intention is to reveal what these larger-than-life individuals attempt  to reach as they seek to escape gravity”. Corps extrêmes, which comes with a stunningly beautiful video installation, is an ode to dreaming.

Source: Philippe Noisette / translation Jean-Charles Ladurelle / Chaillot - Théâtre national de la danse

Rachid Ouramdane has been creating art projects since 1995.
He was an Associate Artist at the Theâtre de la ville in Paris from 2010 to 2015 and at the Bonlieu from 2005 to 2015 Theater in Annecy, France.

He is regularly invited to work on many collaborations: with the Lyon Opera Ballet (Superstars, 2006; All around, 2014); for the dancers of the Russian company Migrazia during a residence in Siberia for the Intradance project (Russia) (Borscheviks... a true story..., 2010); and for the 20th birthday of Candoco Dance Company (UK) with disabled dancers (Looking back, 2011).

Since Rachid Ouramdane founded L’A dance company, his work has been based on a meticulous collection of evidence, in collaboration with filmmakers or authors.

So he employs the art of dance to contribute to social debates through choreographic pieces that develop a poetics of testimony. In his recent work, he has explored the principles of writing for a big group of dancers.

Alongside his creative projects, Ouramdane is working to enhance learning and exchange through the management of international workshops for artistic research in France, Romania, Netherlands, Brazil, and the United States.

Since 2016, Rachid Ouramdane direct the CCN2-Centre Chorégraphique National de Grenoble with Yoann Bourgeois.

Source : Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble

More information :

http://www.ccn2.fr/

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr