A choreographic extract remodelled by the group De l’Air dans l’art, artistic coordinator Ghislaine Tétier, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme 2020/2022. (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing). Transmission by Agalie Vandamme.

Presented on 18 June 2022, Maison de la danse in Lyon.

The piece when it was created 

Tout autour

Firstly produced 22 February 2014 by the Lyon Opéra Ballet at the Radiant Bellevue in Caluire-et-Cuire

Choreography: Rachid Ouramdane

Piece for twenty-two ferformers: Alexis Bourbeau, Julia Carnicer, Randy Castillo, Florian Danel, Dorothée Delabie, Simon Feltz, Amandine François, Aurélie Gaillard, Harris Gkekas, Tadayoshi Kokeguchi, Juan Carlos Lainez, Franck Laizet, Coralie Levieux, Ruth Miro Salvador, Elsa Monguillot de Mirman, Julian Nicosia, Annabelle Peintre, Inês Pereira De Almeida, Mathieu Rouvière, Raul Serrano Nunez, Agalie Vandamme, Ashley Wright

Music: Jean-Baptiste Julien

Original duration: 22 minutes

The group

The company was created in 2008 by teacher and choreographer Ghislaine Tétier, and a group of students from Paris-Saclay University. Since 2012, with help from Phillipe Chevallier, the group has performed numerous pieces of repertoire from across the world, including Rien ne laisse présager de l’état de l’eau, by Odile Duboc, Jours étranges, by Dominique Bagouet,  the second movement of Rosas danst Rosas by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Trisha Brown’s Set and Reset/Reset and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Frame(d). The group enjoys reproducing a variety of highly demanding choreographic styles as faithfully as possible. Ghislaine Tétier also creates original works - choreographed walking circuits, featuring vertical dance, circus arts and contemporary dance. Her performances are regularly presented at the Aurillac international street theatre festival. The company De l’Air dans l’art is participating in the Amateur Dance and Repertoire programme for the third time.  

The project

Tout autour was created in 2014 by Rachid Ouramdane for the dancers of the Lyon Opera Ballet. This short form piece explores the crowd as a collective body. In a dazzling display evoking a parade or riot, the dancers march, run and spin to the point of overload. Jean-Baptiste Julien’s music is minimalistic, conjuring a simple vision of togetherness. Rachid Ouramdane’s choreography, while abstract, is less minimalistic and more earthy, delving down to the roots of a shared bodily experience. The performers strive to create a dance that is “plural, multicultural, political and poetic.” With the support of Rachid Ouramdane, Agalie Vandamme (dancer for Tout autour and assistant choreographer for Tenir le temps), taught the group Tout autour: a performance where the music moves the body to exhaustion. A hypnotic dance, infused with a feeling of belonging, where those who fall are lifted.  

Dancer Laurianne Faure, noted the choreographic score of Tout autour in 2022 as part of her diploma in Benesh Movement Notation at the Paris National Superior Conservatory for Music and Dance (CNSMDP).  

At the age of twelve, Rachid Ouramdane discovered dance  through hip-hop. He also took intensive courses in classical and modern  dance. In the early 1990s, he dropped out of his studies in biology to  devote himself fulltime to dance and joined the Centre national de danse  contemporaine in Angers.

As a performer and choreographer, he has  worked with Meg Stuart, Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, Alain Buffard,  Christian Rizzo, Julie Nioche and Emmanuelle Huynh.

Rachid  Ouramdane's creations are often marked by the seal of testimony and  intimate experience (refugee children, victims of torture or natural  disasters, amateur athletes, etc.) from which he weaves a structured  choreography.

Rachid Ouramdane collaborates with circus artists  (Compagnie XY), authors (Pascal Rambert, Sonia Chiambretto), visual  artists (Nicolas Floch' and Mehdi Meddaci), and musicians (Jean-Baptiste  Julien and Alexandre Meyer) for his own creations as well as for  commissioned works and workshops.

With an ambitious project based  on diversity and hospitality, he has been director of Chaillot - Théâtre  national de la Danse in Paris since April 2021.

Source: Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse

More information: https://theatre-chaillot.fr/en

Film director, Ivan Chaumeille, has worked with choreographer Dominique Brun a long time, most notably in the production of + One (2014), a creative documentary scheduled as part of the festival “Vidéodanse”, in the editing of which Rafaël Gubitsch participated; he filmed and edited two versions of Afternoon of a faun, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinski for the film Le Faune -un film ou la fabrique de l’archive. He also carried out interviews, and devised and formulated the ROM and video dimensions of the DVD (2007). He shot video sequences for the show Medea-Stimmen by Virginie Mirbeau, created at Festival Les Météores CNN du Havre (2008). With a background in philosophy, he produced a creative documentary entitled Avec François Châtelet, un voyage différentiel (2010) for the collection “À Contre-temps” in co-production with Groupe Galactica, Mosaïque films and Canal 15.

Amateur Dance and Repertory is a companion program to amateur practice beyond the dance class and the technical learning phase. Intended for groups of amateur dancers, it opens a space of sharing for those who wish to deepen a practice and a knowledge of the dance in relation to its history.

Laurent Barré
 Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
 Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
 +33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr

Source: CN D

More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme