Touching on our collective memory and alerting our senses. Floating with the spaces we have left, returning the body to its rightful place. 

A question about the encounters between people and the place we have left in our society.

What is the place of the individual in a collective?

What place does society have in an individual world?

Is the public square still public?

And how are we going to occupy this space?

What are our choices?

An interactive work using games and recorded images in which the dancers move.  A questioning of jazz dance, inspired by its origins and heritage, in a resolutely contemporary perception.

In this respect, the creative work takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the arts. Set design and video are used to support a movement that marks the emergence of an innovative jazz dance form and sets it apart in its relationship to space and time. The creative process is part of a research project launched in 2000, entitled Danse Jazz Nouveau Concept, by choreographer Wayne Barbaste.

Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, his career as a dancer began in 1977, in Africa and the Caribbean, to continue in the United States (Alvin Ailey Repertory Company). His career as a choreographer began in 1978 (West Indies Trinidad University, Louisiana Dance Foundation United States). In 1985, he moved to France where he worked with the Compagnie Rick Odums, Off Jazz Gianin Loringett then Anne-Marie Reynaud. Welcomed in permanent residence in Cesson-Sévigné (35), he created the Cie CALABASH in 1992. From then on, he began a research work on Jazz dance in order not to break with his choreographic origins while confirming his membership in the current creation. This research is more precise with what he calls “Jazz New Concept”, where he questions the musicality of the body which induces the danced movement.