Gustavia
2008 - Director : Urréa, Valérie
Choreographer(s) : Monnier, Mathilde (France) La Ribot (Spain)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , Compagnie Mathilde Monnier - Association MM
Video producer : Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Gustavia
2008 - Director : Urréa, Valérie
Choreographer(s) : Monnier, Mathilde (France) La Ribot (Spain)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , Compagnie Mathilde Monnier - Association MM
Video producer : Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Gustavia
Monnier, Mathilde
Mathilde Monnier occupies a place of reference in the landscape of French and international contemporary dance. From piece to piece, she thwarts expectations by presenting work in constant renewal.
Her appointment as head of the Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Choreographic Center in 1994 marked the beginning of a series of collaborations with personalities from various artistic fields (Jean-Luc Nancy, Katerine, Christine Angot, La Ribot, Heiner Goebbels.. .).
She created more than 50 choreographic pieces presented on major international stages like the Avignon Festival, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, passing through New York, Vienna, Berlin, London and receiving several prizes for her work (Ministry of Culture prize, SACD Grand Prize).
After directing the CND National Dance Center in Paris, Mathilde Monnier resumed her creative work in 2019 with several pieces like Please Please Please (2019) which she created in collaboration with La Ribot & Tiago Rodiguez, Records (2021) and her latest, Black Lights (2023).
Since 2020, Mathilde Monnier and her company have residing at the Halle Tropisme in Montpellier.
Source and more information: https://www.mathildemonnier.com/en/
La Ribot
La Ribot, born in Madrid, lived and worked in London between 1997 and 2004. Today she lives and works in Geneva. Under her diva’s name, La Ribot, she has created dance pieces that have received numerous awards, and that are placed at the crossroads of contemporary dance, the performing arts, performance and video.
Over the last ten years, La Ribot has created a demanding but humorous vocabulary, exploring the field of geometry through her famous Distinguished Series pieces.
La Ribot’s work forms a system allowing her to conduct research and to develop and question the temporal, spatial and conceptual limits of dance, as her work rests on the confluences of the performing arts, performance and graphic arts.
Since 2000 La Ribot has shown a strong interest in video and its basic functions. This is what led her to construct pieces filmed live from the viewpoint of the body in movement. By presenting her work in internationally renowned galleries, theatres, festivals of dance, the performing arts and performances, La Ribot uses dance in a pertinent and logical manner as a means of challenging disciplinarity.
Urréa, Valérie
Back in 1987, after having completed her studies at the Ecole nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière, Valérie Urréa began asserting her passion for visual and performing arts. Documentaries, live recordings, fictions, from 'Bruit Blanc' to 'L’Homme qui Danse', all of Valerie Urréa’s films, which are principally coproduced by ARTE, explore highly-sensitive themes such as autism, masculinity and issues concerning race, through artistic visions. Her multiple award-winning films are regularly presented in international festivals. She was guest-artist twice for the Commission Image Mouvement de la Délégation des Arts Plastiques (Image/Movement Commission of the French Visual Arts Delegation). At the same time, she was a teacher for several years at the École Supérieure des Arts Visuels (ESAV - Higher Institute for Visual Arts) in Marrakech, specializing in the relationships between images and performing arts.
Source : Valérie Urréa
Gustavia
Artistic direction / Conception : Mathilde Monnier, La Ribot
Set design : Annie Tolleter
Lights : Éric Wurtz
Costumes : Dominique Fabrègue assistée de Laurence Alquier
Sound : Olivier Renouf
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Festival Montpellier danse 2008, Les spectacles vivants - Centre Pompidou, Festival d'Automne, Théâtre de la ville - Paris, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse - Midi-Pyrénées, Culturgest Lisbonne, la Comédie de Genève, Mercat de les flors - Barcelone, La Ribot - Genève, Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Pour ce projet, La Ribot est soutenue par Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture et la République et Canton de Genève et de la Ville de Genève - Département de la culture.
Production / Coproduction of the video work : ccnm lr