The film Horace Benedict by Aldo Lee and Dimitri Chamblas was created in parallel to the project “Ouvrée, artistes en alpages” by Boris Charmatz. Upon the invitation of the latter choreographer, Anne Collod, Simon Hecquet, Bernard Heidsieck, Matthieu Kavyrchine, Jennifer Lacey, Benoit Lachambre, Xavier Le Roy, Barbara Manzetti, Phil Minton, Jean-Luc Moulène, Steve Paxton, along with a number of extras, came to the slopes of the Semnoz in Haute-Savoie in order to confront choreographic, visual, and sonic material on a monumental scale mountain. “Horace Benedict,” which is the title of this medium length film, is also the name of an eighteenth-century scientist, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, who was instrumental in creating a number of meteorological stations in the Alps and invented the hair hygrometer. This film is not a documentary on Boris Charmatz's project, but a project in its own right, created around, and on the basis of, this event. Dimitri Chamblas explains his intentions: “With this piece, I tried to evaluate the importance of a place vis-à-vis a work, to capture everything including what's in the margins of a work, what influences it and touches it at the deepest level.”
This medium-length film is presented as a simple projection, in the form of an installation, or screened in cinemas on the occasion of presentation of improvised works. The unedited version shown here is in small format, and should be viewed for research purposes only.

Source : Boris Charmatz

More informations :
http://www.borischarmatz.org/

From the À bras-le-corps duet created with Boris Charmatz in 1993 to the one with Kim Gordon in 2018, Dimitri Chamblas' career reflects a taste for encounters that he never ceases to develop. He has worked with a diverse array of artists, including Bret Easton Ellis, William Forsythe, Glen Keane, Benjamin Millepied, Mathilde Monnier, Alex Prager, Nile Rodgers, Claire Tabouret, and Virginie Viard. 

In 2015, he founded and ran the 3e Scène at the Opéra national de Paris, then became Dean of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2017. Dimitri Chamblas defines his own cartography of creation, moving dance to places where it is least expected, such as inside high-security prisons, as witnessed by Manuela Dalle's documentary Dancing in A-Yard. 

His work has been presented at the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Opéra national de Paris, Performa New York, NYU Skirball (New York,) and the Musée du Louvre (Paris)

Today, it's through his Studio that he develops his projects: takemehome, a piece for 9 performers in collaboration with Kim Gordon, the staging of Crowd Out, an opera for 1000 voices by David Lang, or Slow Show, a performance for fifty participants that slows down time and gives rise to an eponymous installation made up of a series of video portraits. As a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and artistic director, dance is the vehicle that allows Dimitri Chamblas to travel through various geographical and social contexts around the globe.

Source and more information: https://www.dimitrichamblas.com/

Aldo Lee has studied at the University of Witwatersand (South Africa) where he is received as Bachelor of Art, with the highest distinction, in 1989. In 1995, he takes part in the International Video Workshop for Dance (Glasgow). He moves to fiction with Sacrifice (drama, 30 mn) for which he is awarded the best short-movie prize at the South African Cinema festival. He directs several documentary films and is awarded the prizes for best documentary for La double vie de Dona Ermelinda (The Double Life of Dona Ermelinda, 52 mn) at the festival Vues d'Afrique, Montréal in 1995 ; and in 1999, for Fermiers Blancs, Terre Noire (White Farmers, Black Land, 52 mn) at the festival of the Dhow Countries, Tanzania.

He collaborates notably with artists Rainer Ganahl, Boris Achour, Yann Kopp, and particularly choreographers Hervé Robbe, Jérôme Bel, Rachid Ouramdane... For the association edna, he co-directs Horace-Benedict in 2001 with Dimitri Chamblas and collaborates with Boris Charmatz for his film Une lente introduction (A Slow Introduction, 2007). In parallel, he works regularly as cameraman and director for various projects broadcasted on Arte, France3 (Striptease) or Channel Four.

At the bounds of the museum, place of conservation, dance, art of  movement, and choreographic center, place of production and residence, le Musée de la danse is a space to think, practice and expand the boundaries of the dance. If it's registered in Rennes, it's also a nomadic idea. Directed by the choreographer Boris Charmatz, this laboratory-institution explores the possibilities of crossing between exhibition, performative  gesture and articulation of a speech. Workshops, debates, shows, residencies of artists and researchers; offbeat proposals and fantasy collections are born directly from a reflection on what could be this playful and hybrid museum.

The  CCN of Rennes and Brittany, renamed the Museum of Dance by Boris  Charmatz, was directed by Gigi Caciuleanu until 1993, by Catherine  Diverrès and Bernardo Montet until 1996, then by Catherine Diverrès  alone until 2008. Since 2009, Boris Charmatz ensures his direction. From January 2019, the collective FAIR[E] will take over. The  collective is composed of Bouside Aït-Atmane, Iffra Dia, Johanna Faye, Céline Gallet, Linda Hayford, Saïdo Lehlouh, Marion Poupinet and Ousmane Sy.

The  Museum of Dance / National Choreographic Center of Rennes and Brittany  is an association subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and  Communication (DRAC Bretagne), the City of Rennes, the Regional Council  of Brittany and the County Council of Ille et-Vilaine.
The Dance Museum is part of the Association of National Choreographic Centers.

More information : www.museedeladanse.org