At the peak of his flamenco career, Andrés Marín set off on a pilgrimage to the mythical sources of his art — Yātrā means journey in Sanskrit — daring to perform a perfectly mastered pas de deux with the dancers from Kader Attou’s company. The two choreographers met to immerse themselves in each other’s aesthetics and take a contemporary look at their own dance in order to better rediscover its intensity and essential nature. This dialogue between the solar and pure hip-hop of Kader Attou and the iconoclastic flamenco of Andrés Marín is carried along by the breath of the musical and vocal jousts of the Ensemble Divana, a magnificent formation of traditional musicians from Rajasthan. A rare adventure – a commission by the Philharmonie de Paris — where contrasts unite to form a show in which each person retains their vital forces, while opening out to the other.

Source: Maison de la Danse, program

Andrés Marín is one of the most singular dancers of  the current flamenco scene. His productions have focused on the flamenco  tradition and specifically on the classical songs, but not from a  conventional perspective, but through a very personal style and an  aesthetic of absolute contemporaneity. Choreographer, artistic and  musical director of his own company, his creations reflect the  expressive freedom of a deep artistic research. From there is born a  poetics rich in suggestive images, at the service of his commitment to  art and to himself. He is currently one of the great renovators of the  genre.

Andrés Marín was born in Seville in 1969. The son  of flamenco artists, he has lived the art since he was a child, both  through dancing at his father's school, as well as singing, of which he  is a great fan and profound connoisseur. If there is a trait that  defines his career, it would be that of independence and non-attachment  to any company or school beyond his father's teaching. Self-taught and  unclassifiable, he began his professional career in 1992 as a soloist  and choreographer for different shows and events until he founded his  own company in 2002.

In all of Andrés Marín's works,  experimentation and risk reign, elements that the artist considers  essential for flamenco art to stay alive: Más allá del tiempo (2002), Asimetrías (2004), El alba del último día (2006), Vanguardia Jonda (2006), El cielo de tu boca (2008), La pasión según se mire (2010), Op.24 (2011), Tuétano (2012), Ad Libitum (2014), Yatra (2015), Carta Blanca (2015), D.Quixote (2017), La Vigilia Perfecta (2020) and Éxtasis Ravel  (2021). His creations have been welcomed by the main European circuits,  both in the flamenco genre and contemporary dance among which are the  Maison de la Danse de Lyon, the Teatros del Canal de Madrid, the Théâtre  National de Chaillot in Paris, Sadler's Wells in London, the Biennale  de Flamenco in Seville, Montpellier Danse, the Musée National  Picasso-Paris, the Opera de Lille, the Lucent DansTheater in The Hague,  the National Opera of Latvia, the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, the MC2:  Grenoble, Festival de Danse de Cannes, the Biennale d'Art Flamenco de  Paris, the Festival de Nîmes, the Festival de Jerez, Flamenco Viene del  Sur, the Sala Pleyel in Paris, the Festival ¡Mira! Festival and the  Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona.

A restless artist, always in search of new ways to submerge the  flamenco tradition in uncharted waters, Andrés Marín has collaborated  with artists from various disciplines throughout his career in the  conviction that flamenco can dialogue without complexes with other arts:
Pilar Albarracín, visual artist. Action for video "Bailaré sobre tu tumba" (2004).
Blanca Li, choreographer. "Poeta en Nueva York"  (2007-2008) Nominated for the Max Awards for Best Male Dance Performance  for his role as Lorca.
Llorenç Barber, experimental composer (bells). "E"l Cielo de tu Boca" (2008-2011).
Bartabas, director of the equestrian and musical theater Zíngaro. "Golgota" (2013-2016).
Kader Attou, hip-hop dancer and director of the  National Choreographic Center of La Rochelle (CCN). "Rencontres" (2014)  and "Yatra" (2015-2018).
Ensemble Divana, musicians from Rajasthan. World Sacred Spirit Festival 2016, Jodpur (India).
Laurent Berger, playwright and director of contemporary theater. "D.Quixote" (2017-2019).
Marie-Agnés Gillot, dancer Étoile. Christian Rizzo, choreographer, audiovisual artist. "Magma" (2019-2021).
José Miguel Pereñíguez, visual artist. "La Vigilia Perfecta" (2020), "Éxtasis Ravel" (2021)
Jon Maya, Basque dantzari. "Yarin" (2022)

The  artist combines his choreographic and artistic activity with the  direction of Andrés Marín Flamenco Abierto, a production office and his  own dance studio based in Seville.

Source and more information: https://www.andresmarin.es/en/

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr