This work invites two artistic skills, music and dance, to resonate on the same wavelength like the “Strings” of the title, for each to feed on the other's singularity, to blend musicality with gesture around the notion of tension. The tension of strings, the tautness of bodies and relationships. The performing artists lead us into an extreme intertwining of variations in volume, with the forcefulness and beauty of the musical works chosen for the performance: the generously-rich texture of Stravinsky's Concerto in D, the power and intimacy of Ysaÿe's Solo Violin Sonata, and the dramatic tension of l'Eloignement by Qigang Chen.
Sylvain Groud calls on dancers and musicians to convert the codes to other uses, to open doors that were thought to be locked, sharing their territories and the fields of their respective imaginations. Between bodies and strings – punning on corps and cordes – the intimate relationships of score with bow, or of word with gesture, are brought to the fore in a generously-spirited, committed dance.

Source : Compagnie Sylvain Groud

In 1991, received his diploma from the CNSMD of Paris, contemporary dance section and the same year received the prize for best performance at the Bagnolet competition with the  Gigi Caciuleanu company. From 1992 to 2002, he is a dancer for the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. He is alo an award winner at the Concours International de Paris with his first choreography, and then creates for the National Theater of Bucarest in Romania and the Opera of Skopje in Macedonia. Created in 2002, the Compagnie Sylvain Groud moves to Normandy in 2006 and is in residency for three years in Vernon. In 2007, his work "Si vous voulez bien me suivre", is noticed. In 2009, the experiences shared with the cultural mission of the University Hospital of Rouen led the company to a residency at the Boucicaut retirement home at Mont-Saint-Aignan. In 2010, the Opera of Rouen places an order for Cordes, works for eight dancers, twenty-four musicians under the director Benjamin Levy. Continuing this questioning about the relationship between music and dance, he creates Héros Ordinaires in 2011 for four dancers and four opera singers and Collusion for four dancers and the electro composer Molecule. In 2010, Je suis descendu du plateau, was born of a meeting with the writer Maylis de Kerangal. The same year he is invited to meet five hip hop dancers at Suresnes Cités Danse, and creates Elles a piece that is continued with the solo Ma leçon de hip hop in 2013. In 2012, he orders a piece from the visual artist Jonathan Loppin. Together, they create Chambre 209, a choreographic and digital installation on four sides. In 2013, enthralled by Steve Reich’s music, Sylvain Groud creates a choreography to Music for 18 Musicians performed live by the Links Ensemble.

 With his in situ projects, such as People (over two hundered performances to date), Sylvain Groud is endeavouring to make dance burst forth where it isn’t expected. 

Since 2010, the company has been in residency at the Scène Nationale of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Sylvain Groud will be associate artist at the Scène Nationale of Montbéliard since 2011. With a repertoire of 21th creations ranging from solos to large ensemble pieces, the company tours with five pieces on average, over sixty performances each year, a third of which are in situ. He’s at the head of the Centre National Chorégraphique of Roubaix Nord Pas de Calais since the end of 2017.

 Source : Compagnie Mad 's website

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