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KNIGHT-NIGHT

CN D - Centre national de la danse 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

en fr

KNIGHT-NIGHT

CN D - Centre national de la danse 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

en fr

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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