KNIGHT-NIGHT
2022 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Fritz, Bryana (United States) Lac, Thibault (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
KNIGHT-NIGHT
2022 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Fritz, Bryana (United States) Lac, Thibault (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
KNIGHT-NIGHT
A fragile figure, suspended between dream and reality, Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote haunts KNIGHT-NIGHT, the piece jointly created by Bryana Fritz and Thibault Lac. And if this suspension spoke of the boundary between reality and stage representation? Far from a literal staging of the character imagined by Cervantes, KNIGHT-NIGHT invents visual and sound sequences that establish a dialogue with the elusive figure of the knight while playing with the fragility imposed by live performance.
Bryana Fritz is a choreographer, dancer and writer; Thibault Lac studied architecture before turning to dance. A shared love of queer and feminist art and their utopian potential brings them together in this show where each tests the contours of the stage space. Movement, song, text and costumes are all mobilised in turn in a Quixotic quest to invent a common and shared space.
Source: programme of the CND
Fritz, Bryana
Bryana Fritz was born in Chicago and has studied dance in Minneapolis (US), Essen (DE) and with P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. She’s since lived and worked here as a dancer, performance-maker and poet. In 2017 she performed ‘Indispensible Blue’ at Beursschouwburg, another poetic quest combining choreography and the theme of our digital world. With her new performance, Fritz further pursues her romance with dance, poetry and the digital screen.
Source : https://www.beursschouwburg.be
Lac, Thibault
Thibault Lac first studied architecture before attending P.A.R.T.S in Brussels from 2006 to 2010. Alongside his studies, he danced in Jérôme Bel’s The Show Must Go On in 2019, and assisted Tino Sehgal in his exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2010. A performer with Ligia Lewis, Noé Soulier, Eleanor Bauer, Daniel Linehan, Mathilde Monnier, Alexandra Bachzetsis and Daniel Jeanneteau, he is a recurring presence in the various formats of Trajal Harrell’s project: 20 Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church. He has also participated in collaborative projects as an author: SUCH SWEET THUNDER (due to be presented during Camping 2021), created in collaboration with visual artist Tore Wallert and composer Tobias Koch, was awarded the Young Choreographers Prize at the Impulstanz Festival 2019 in Vienna. Knight-Night is a new production for 2022, in collaboration with Bryana Fritz.
Source: programme of the CND
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.).
KNIGHT-NIGHT
Artistic direction / Conception : Bryana Fritz et Thibault Lac
Interpretation : Bryana Fritz et Thibault Lac
Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Stephen Thompson
Lights : Alice Panziera
Costumes : Dael Anselme
Technical direction : Régisseur général François Boulet
Sound : Tobias Koch
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 18 mars 2022
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