Pavlova 3'23''
2010 - Director : Zeriahen, Karim
Choreographer(s) : Monnier, Mathilde (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , Compagnie Mathilde Monnier - Association MM
Video producer : Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Pavlova 3'23''
2010 - Director : Zeriahen, Karim
Choreographer(s) : Monnier, Mathilde (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , Compagnie Mathilde Monnier - Association MM
Video producer : Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Pavlova 3'23
Monnier, Mathilde
Mathilde Monnier holds a reference position in the French and international contemporary dance landscape. Her creations continuously defy expectations thanks to constant renewal. Her nomination as director of the Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in 1994 has initiated a series of collaborations with people coming from different artistic domains. From artist Beverly Semmes to philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy from film director Claire Denis, Mathilde Monnier has always pushed the boundaries of a work she sees as an experience above all. Musical creation holds an important position with very varied collaborations within the fields of popular as well as scholarly music - jazz musician Louis Sclavis, composers David Moss and Heiner Goebbels, virtuoso platinist eriKm. More recently, she has used PJ Harvey's rock music but also the pink pop settings 2008 vallée, the show she co-created with singer Philippe Katerine. It came to a glorious end in the Main Courtyard at the 2008 Avignon festival. Fascinated by the concept of unison, she created the pastoral Tempo 76 show at the Montpellier Danse 07 festival on Gyôrgy Ligeti's music. In february 2008 she was commissionned by the Berlin Philarmonic Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle to choreograph Heiner Goebbels opera, Surrogate Cities. More than 130 amateurs went on stage to take part to an opera dealing with the city and the power struggle within. The same year, she presented the burlesque duet Gustavia in which she appeared along with spanish performance artist La Ribot at the Montpellier Danse 08 festival. In 2009, she created Pavlova 3'23'', in reference to the classical ballet The Death of The Swan. In 2010, working in close collaboration with visual artist Dominique Figarella, Mathilde Monnier created the show Soapéra, and subsequently paid homage to Merce Cunningham by way of the show Un américain à paris. In 2011, together with choreographer Loïc Touzé and writer Tanguy Viel, Mathilde Monnier created Nos images, a work focusing on film. Together with Jean-François Duroure, she restaged Pudique acide / Extasis at the Festival Montpellier Danse 11, two duos that the choreographers created in 1984 and 1985.
Source : Mathilde Monnier
En savoir plus : www.mathildemonnier.com
Zeriahen, Karim
From live stage images to life in images, the director and video artist Karim Zeriahen seems to have found the shortest way. Since the beginning of the 90s, when he worked in close relationship with choreographer Philippe Decouflé, he learned how to put the art of stage in motion, contemporary dance most of the time. Karim Zeriahen then starts a fruitful collaboration with Montpellier based choreographer Mathilde Monnier. Stop, Videlilah, day of night, short films adapted from her stage creations. Each time, Karim Zeriahen's camera takes over the place with movement, the body language is not frozen but magnified. Choreographer Herman Diephuis also joins this gallery of dancing portraits. Documentaries on figures such like Albert Maysles or Hubert de Givenchy and from Joe Dalessandro to Paul Morrissey, he sets a signature, a camera always in action with confidence.
Today the director goes further with a new project and tracks the subtle movements of the body language beyond the physical appearance. A collection of living portraits as unique pièces reminding us of the master portraitists of renaissance. These living natures consists in filming the subject in a certain amount of time, almost still, with signs of respiration, eye blinks, as if it were posing for a painting. They are then displayed on a flat screen with a memory card. With this collection starting, Karim Zeriahen, with his documentary and artist vision, interrogates himself about the virtual world filled with images. By taking a pause, and his models with him, he questions the way we look at things, the way we look at life.
Source: Philippe Noisette
En savoir plus: www.karimzeriahen.com
Pavlova 3'23
Choreography : Mathilde Monnier
Interpretation : Cecilia Bengolea, Julia Cima, Yoann Demichelis, Julien Gallée-Ferré, Corinne Garcia, Thiago Granato, Olivier Normand, I-Fang Lin, Rachid Sayet
Set design : Annie Tolleter assistée de Cédric Torne
Additionnal music : Rodolphe Burger, eRikm, Heiner Goebbels, Olivier Renouf, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gilles Sivilotto
Lights : Éric Wurtz
Costumes : Dominique Fabrègue assistée de Laurence Alquier
Sound : Olivier Renouf
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Théâtre de la ville - Paris, Arts 276, Festival Automne en Normandie, saison Montpellier danse 2009, La Bâtie-festival de Genève, Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon
Duration : 64'
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