La dernière création de la Compagnie de danse l'Eventail et de Marie-Geneviève Massé vient poser un point finale à 40 années de partage et de créations. Pour fêter cela, la chorégraphe réunit autour d'elle tous ceux qui ont contribué au succès de la compagnie.

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Following a classical training with Daniel Frank and Yves Cassati, she studied contemporary dance with Aron Osbon, Sarah Sugwihara, Françoise Dupuy and Bernard Delattre.

In 1980 she fell in love with the dance she discovered through Françoise Lancelot – the baroque. She immediately joined the company “Ris et Danceries” and remained one of its principal artists until 1988, participating notably in the creation of  Atys ,  the Bal à la Cour de Louis XIV ,  La Suitte d’un Goût Etranger   with Dominique Bagouet and François Raffinot. From 1989 to 1992 she worked with François Raffinot as dancer and assistant in his company Barocco.

At the same time she taught baroque dance at the CNSM in Paris, the Conservatoire Royal in La Haye, the Sablé Academy, the Rio Academy and in the Cefedem. From 1995 to 1997 she directed the troop of dancers in the Théâtre Baroque de France.

Marie- Geneviève began choreographing in 1985 at the request of several directors and conductors, founding the company L’Eventail with Bernard Delattre. With this company, based in Sablé since 2001, granted national convention status in 2004, she has created more than thirty-five choreographies and collaborated with renowned artists.

In 2000, proposed by Didier Deschamps and Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt, she was named CHEVALIER DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES.

Following the presentation of  "Renaud et Armide | Médée et Jason"   at the Opéra Royal at Versailles and the Opéra Comique in December 2012, Marie-Geneviève created, amongst other things,  "La Sérénade Royale"  which was staged throughout the summer of 2014 in the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.

For the past four years she has been continuing the project “De la plume à l’image" in partnership with the National Dance Centre. At the moment, she is working on three new creations:  « Les Amants Magnifiques » , « Fables à tiroir » et « Othello ou le ballet des apparences ».

She is also preparing the thirtieth anniversary of l’Éventail to be celebrated on December 12th 2015 with the Ballet des Fables at l’Entracte in Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

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Comédienne

Pendant ses années aux conservatoires de Lille et Paris 20ème, dans lesquels elle reçoit un enseignement classique, elle se confronte à d’autres types de pratiques comme l’improvisation, le théâtre musical ou la commedia dell’arte. Depuis elle alterne des productions du répertoire (Molière, Anouilh, Corneille, Marivaux, Aristophane, Shakespeare, etc.)- sous la direction entre autres de Vincent Tavernier ou Jean-Philippe Salério– et des créations contemporaines qui mixent les disciplines. Comédienne éclectique, elle prête aussi sa voix pour des documentaires ou des radios, apprend la langue des signes, travaille en entreprise pour des créations à la demande et développe son goût de l’écriture aux côtés de Vincent Dedienne dans son seul en scène « S’il se passe quelque chose ». Depuis 2014, elle s’ancre dans sa famille d’auteur.rice.s autour de Vincent Dedienne avec Juliette Chaigneau et Anaïs Harté pour notamment les bios interdites (C+) et les QcommeKiosque (TMC). C’est avec elles qu’elle écrit et interprète une mini-série sur la décentralisation théâtrale intitulée « Sur le pont » et avec elles encore qu’elle accompagne Isabelle carré, Vincent Dedienne puis Bérengère Krief pour la
cérémonie des Grands Prix de la Sacem. Toujours à la recherche de formes différentes, elle écrit en 2014 « La Mer du nord de l’amour » une opérette en feuilleton sur une musique de Nicolas Ducloux et travaille en ce moment à l'’écriture d'une fiction radiophonique « Les Amazones » aux côtés de Marie Liagre. En 2019 elle crée un conte du chat perché de Marcel Aymé « Le cerf et le chien » dans une version narration-concert sous la direction de Valértie Antonijevich à Paris.

After studies of mathematics preparatory class and medecine studies, Luc Riolon begins to make films within the framework of his Faculty of Medicine, then met the famous choreographers of the 80s (Maguy Marin, Mark Tompkins, Josef Nadj, Daniel Larrieu Daniel, Odile Duboc, Josette Baiz, Angelin Prljocaj, etc.) with whom he shoots numerous films (re-creation for the camera, the illegal securements). In the 80s with the American choreographer Mark Tompkins he introduces the video on the stage, broadcasting live on big screens the images which he shoots with his camera by being on the stage with the dancers, mixing live images and pre-recorded images. With Daniel Larrieu he participates in the creation of the famous show WATERPROOF, the contemporary choreography which takes place in a swimming pool, by filming live) the dancers dancing in the water and mixing the live images with pre-recorded underwater images. This choreography has been shown in many countries (USA, Canada, Spain, England…)
Then he collaborates during 10 years with the famous french TV producer Eve Ruggieri for her programs" Musics in the heart ". He shoots with her of numerous documentaries about classical music, opera singers and dance. From 1999 he directs documentaries of scientific popularization, by following researchers attached to the resolution of a particular ecologic enigma. These two artistic and scientific domains which can seem separated are nevertheless, for Luc Riolon, connected by the same approach : the deep desire to understand the world, by the art or by the scientific research, and to restore it to the largest number. Among his recent scientific documentaries, we can quote for example " The Enigma of the Black Caiman ", Living and dying in the swamp " or " The Nile delta: The end of the miracle ". “Chernobyl, a natural history ? “ These documentaries of scientific popularization recently have been awarded in international festivals.

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Artistic direction: Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre

Creation: 1985

Encouraged by Francine Lancelot L’Éventail Dance Company was founded in 1985 by Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre. From 1985 to 2000 the company was installed in the Paris region, thereof four seasons in residence at the Espace Carpeaux de Courbevoie. Since 2001, with its relocation in Sablé sur Sarthe, the company life has radically changed. In 2004 it receives the status of “compagnie conventionnée” – registered company – by the Ministry of Culture of the region Pays de la Loire (DRAC).

L’Éventail Dance Company is recognized as an essential reference point in the domain of Baroque Dance. Apart from contributing actively to the discovery of the richness and the vitality of this art form as well as to the spreading of the French choreographic culture the company shows a creative audacity: parting from roots of the past it initiates innovation and does not follow but blazes a trail.

The company develops two complementary intentions connecting memory and innovation, past and modernity with creations or reruns of choreographies in the spirit of the 17th and 18th century like (Don Juan by Gluck, Le Carnaval et la Folie opera-ballet by Destouches, Les Petits Riens by Mozart, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac comédie-ballet by Molière et Lully…) as well as the conception of original performances in baroque esthetic but with a contemporary concept like (Voyage en Europe, The Four Seasons, Metamorphosis)

Consisting of around twenty dancers, an acrobat, a marionette player and technicians, l’Éventail Dance Company cooperates regularly with international costume designers, musicians.

Source: L’Éventail Dance Company 's website

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