Psaume #3
The third part will be in the company of Ali Moini, an Iranian artist whom we no longer present. The confrontation of this third look at the question of the sacred and the religious, will close this Psalms cycle and bring a different color to the two previous creations.
The work will start in September 2018 and will end in January 2019 as part of the CNDC Solo Festival of Angers.
Source: James Carlès
More information: www.jamescarles.com
Moini, Ali
Ali Moini was Born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1974.
Growing up, he studied lyrical singing and musical composition, and at 17, he joined the Youth Orchestra of Shiraz.
In 1997, Moini started intensive studies in dramatic arts and acting, and joined the Mehr Theater Group as an actor and composer. There, he performed in numerous works, including "Dance On Glasses", which was presented over 80 times throughout the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, and North America.
Moini earned his degree in dramatic acting from Soureh High Educational University of Tehran, and in 2009 he participated in the Forum Dança Lisbon's two-year advanced program Choreographic Creation and Research on Contemporary Dance, studying with international choreographers including André Lepecki, Deborah Hay, Emmanuelle Huynh, Jeremy Nelson, João Fiadeiro, Julyen Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Mark Tompkins, Meg Stuart, Loïc Touzé, and Vera Mantero. It was there that he created the solo piece "My Paradoxical Knives," which he performed to great acclaim at the Montpellier Danse Festival, the Tanzquartier, and Théâtre National de Chaillot, among others.
At the invitation of the Montpellier Danse Festival, Moini created the piece "It Shocks Me but Not You" in 2012. It is a part of his larger show, "Talking In/To Myself", which was presented at the Festival d'Automne in Paris that same year.
In 2013, his collaboration with the visual artist Fred Rodrigues was presented under the Hermès Foundation's New Settings program at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale in Paris. In 2013, Moini concluded his Masters in Performance and Choreography in the ESSAI program at CNDC (Centre National de Danse Contemporaine) in Angers, France.
In 2014/2015 he is performer for Hooman Sharifi's show "Every order eventually looses its terror".
In 2016 he creates a new solo "Man Anam Ke Rostam Bovad Pahlavan" that premieres in Festival Montpellier Danse and is part of New Settings program by Fondation d'Entreprise Hermès.
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Carlès, James
James Carles is a choreographer, researcher and lecturer. He received initial training in dance and music of Africa and its Diaspora and then trained with the great names of modern dance in New York and London mainly. Since 1992, he hired an artistic and analytical approach that explores the “places junctions” between the dances, rhythms and philosophies of Africa and its Diaspora with technical and western thoughts frames. To date, his company’s directory contains more than fifty pieces of his own creation and authors like Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Asadata Dafora, Geraldine Armstrong, Rick Odums, Wayne Barbaste, Carolyn Carlson, Robyn Orlin, etc.
Dancer soloist and outstanding performer, James Carles was performer and artistic collaborator for not only numerous “all music” ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, through jazz; but also choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson, Robyn Orlin, Rui Horta, Myriam Naisy, etc.
Artist associated with Astrada- Jazz In Marciac 2012-2014, research associate in the laboratory of the University LLA Créatis Jean Jaures Toulouse, James Carles is particularly invests in heritage projects for diversity and diffusion of choreographic culture. He is also founder and artistic director of the festival “Dances and Black Continents”.
Sasso, Pierre
Pierre Sasso is a french director from Toulouse, associated to James Carles's choreographic center.
Psaumes #
A word about "contemporary poetics of relationship"
A psalm is a poetic text composed of several verses from four main literary genres. The word comes from the ancient Greek, psalmos, which indicates a tune played on the psaltery.
It was used in the Septuagint translation to translate the Hebrew word mizmôr, which designates a religious song accompanied by music which is attested 57 times in the book of psalms. They can take different characters: more or less laudatory, intimate, combative, repentant, etc.
With Psalms, I would like to explore and "grasp" the multiple meanings of relationships as they are played out today in society.
What is sacred? What is sacred today? How does the meaning of the sacred change from personal (ontological) or collective trajectories?
What is my approach to the sacred? What is sacred to me? What am I desecrating? What are my sacrileges? So many questions that inspire me.
At this stage of my personal and professional journey, I feel the desire to write contemporary psalms. It will not be a sung poetic verb, but a danced poetic flow, on the relationship (which "re" binds us).
Source: James Carlès
More information: www.jamescarles.com