Couture essentielle
2017 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Saillard, Olivier (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Couture essentielle
2017 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Saillard, Olivier (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Couture essentielle
“Each gesture, each undertaking, each result is the manifestation and the challenge of a fashion system that we want to examine elsewhere. Wishing to put together a fashion collection, we have created it in a dance studio. Wishing to present a fashion show, we have programmed it outside – outside traced circuits, outside fashion. Wishing to produce and disseminate this collection, we have organised a performance showroom where what is for sale is not perhaps the actual garment. Neither a brand nor a label, this collection is an “S.O.S.” to the fashion world. It has recourse to the “petites mains”, those skilled workers, men and women alike, who displayed their talents at famous fashion houses. It calls on our fashion memories, it invites an art of appearance within which gestures, words and dress are already costumes. The result is a collection of souvenir clothes, of objects, dress and body-segments where not only the official, but also the intimate and everyday history of fashion acts like a creative material.”
Olivier Saillard
Source: programme of the CND - Updating March 2017
Saillard, Olivier
Olivier Saillard was the director of the Palais Galliera (Paris Fashion Museum) until 2018. A famous fashion historian, he has been the curator of a large number of successful exhibitions such as Alaïa, followed by Jeanne Lanvin at the Palais Galliera, Paris Haute Couture at the Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Madame Grès, la couture à l’œuvre at the Bourdelle museum, Andy Warhol et la mode at the Musée de la Mode de Marseille and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts): Christian Lacroix, histoires de mode – Yohji Yamamoto, juste des vêtements – Sonia Rykiel, Exhibition – Couturiers Superstars, etc. He is the author of a complete Histoire idéale de la mode contemporaine (Ed. Textuel). Award winner of the Villa Kujoyama, he conducts a poetic work presented in the form of performances. As part of the Paris Festival d’Automne, he created with Tilda Swinton three performances: The Impossible Wardrobe (2012), The Eternity Dress (2013) and Cloakroom (2014). In 2015, Models Never Talk, presented in New York and then at the CND, recreates the memories of seven models invited to come on stage. More recently, he presented at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris Modern Art Museum) a performance featuring Charlotte Rampling and Tilda Swinton, inspired by images taken from the collections of the Maison européenne de la Photographie.
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Couture essentielle
Artistic direction / Conception : Olivier Saillard
Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Gaël Mamine
Interpretation : Christine Bergstrom, Axelle Doué, Claudia Huidobro et Anne Rohart
Costumes : Chaussures Roger Vivier
Other collaborations : Conception sonore Mode-F - Coiffure Gérald Porcher
LATITUDES CONTEMPORAINES
40 years of dance and music
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
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.
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
When reality breaks in
The Dance Biennial Défilé
Maison de la danse
Improvisation
Discovery of improvisation’s specificities in dance.
Dance and visual arts
Dance and visual arts have often been inspiring for each other and have influenced each other. This Parcours can not address all the forms of their relations; he only tries to show the importance of plastic creation in some choreographies.
The American origins of modern dance: [1930-1950] from the expressive to the abstract
La part des femmes, une traversée numérique
EIVV 2022 Dancing with the editing
Why do I dance ?
Käfig, portrait of a company
Artistic Collaborations
Panorama of different artistic collaborations, from « couples » of choreographers to creations involving musicians or plasticians
Scenic space
A dance performance takes place in a defined spatial area ... or not. This course helps to understand the occupation of the stage space in dance.
Genres and styles
Dance is a rather vast term, which covers a myriad of specificities. These depend on the culture of a country, on a period, on a place. This Journey proposes a visit through dance genres and styles.
Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces
Reinterpreting works: Swan Lake, Giselle
Some great shows are revisited through the centuries. Here are two examples of pieces reinterpreted by different choreographers.