A duo performed by two virtuosos: Carole Bordes and Samuel Ber. They accompany and respond to each other between music and dance, summoning the essence of jazz culture in its jubilant relationship. 

A third presence hovers over this duo, that of American dance master Matt Mattox, evoked through Johann Fournier's spare, poetic archives. 

Somewhere between intimate testimony and auto-fiction, Carole recounts her encounter with a personality who had a profound effect on her career and that of generations of dancers. With humour, tenderness and intransigence, she tells her own story as part of the great history of dance. 

More than a tribute, she celebrates her reunion with Mattox's movement, confronts it with the gaze of its contemporaneity and outlines its prospects in today's choreographic landscape. 

Carole BORDES est chorégraphe et interprète en danses jazz et contemporaine. Formée à sa méthode par Matt Mattox lui-même, Sylvie Duchèsne, Géraldine Armstrong et Raza Hammadi, elle danse pendant 5 ans dans le Armstrong Jazz Ballet et interprète une des chorégraphies de Matt Mattox, Basie’s Instinct en 2010. Découvrant à travers la danse contemporaine l’éventail des possibles de la création en danse, elle imagine la structure Cie Émoi en 2008, lieu d’association d’humains, d’idées, de création. Depuis 2015, elle a créé 3 pièces avec des interprètes venus d’horizons multiples. R pour Résistance, pièce centrale qui rencontre un vif succès, pose les bases de son propos comme réaction poétique aux immobilismes de nos sociétés.

En 2021, la chorégraphe éprouve le besoin de centrer son travail sur son geste fondateur jazz et de le confronter au regard de sa contemporanéité. D’une recherche soutenue par le Centre national de la danse naissent 3 conférences dansées ainsi que le web documentaire Danser Mattox.com.

Sur scène, elle se met en dialogue avec la batterie live de Samuel Ber dans Matt et Moi qui reçoit le Prix Beaumarchais-SACD et qui tourne avec déjà près de 25 représentations.

Une prochaine création pour 8 danseurs, Giants, se prépare pour 2025.

After an intense twenty-year career as a professional dancer, and keen to pass on his passion for dance, in 2009 he obtained a state diploma as a jazz dance teacher, thanks to which he now teaches at a number of conservatoires as well as at the Centre National de la Danse. His desire to pass on and share his passion is expressed in a series of short films (20 video dances), in which he learns how to successfully complete video projects on his own, often with the support of professionals in the field. In 2015, he took a course offered by Ateliers Varan and graduated as a documentary film writer-director.Since then, he has worked with a number of artists to produce artistic videos, including music videos, recordings of shows and teasers for plays, 

As a director, he produced reportage footage for the Musée Grévin in Paris in 2017/18, as well as auditions for the new Paradis Latin cabaret revue ‘L'oiseau Paradis’.
Artistic research has led him to make two documentaries, portraits of artists and a documentary on Umbanda. He is also collaborating on a web documentary on the memory of Matt MATTOX, an American dancer, choreographer and teacher.