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

At the age of twelve, Rachid Ouramdane discovered dance  through hip-hop. He also took intensive courses in classical and modern  dance. In the early 1990s, he dropped out of his studies in biology to  devote himself fulltime to dance and joined the Centre national de danse  contemporaine in Angers.

As a performer and choreographer, he has  worked with Meg Stuart, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Alain Buffard,  Christian Rizzo, Julie Nioche and Emmanuelle Huynh.

Rachid  Ouramdane's creations are often marked by the seal of testimony and  intimate experience (refugee children, victims of torture or natural  disasters, amateur athletes, etc.) from which he weaves a structured  choreography.

Rachid Ouramdane collaborates with circus artists  (Compagnie XY), authors (Pascal Rambert, Sonia Chiambretto), visual  artists (Nicolas Floch' and Mehdi Meddaci), and musicians (Jean-Baptiste  Julien and Alexandre Meyer) for his own creations as well as for  commissioned works and workshops.

With an ambitious project based  on diversity and hospitality, he has been director of Chaillot - Théâtre  national de la Danse in Paris since April 2021.

Source: Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse

More information: https://theatre-chaillot.fr/en

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