Danses d'ailleurs
Corps rebelles2016 - Director : Pecci, Jean-Louis
Choreographer(s) : Delaunay, Raphaëlle (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , Numeridanse ,
Danses d'ailleurs
Corps rebelles2016 - Director : Pecci, Jean-Louis
Choreographer(s) : Delaunay, Raphaëlle (France)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , Numeridanse ,
Danses d'ailleurs
At the dawn of the 20th century, "exotic" dance, linked to colonization, conveys racist stereotypes and with them, the myth of the "animal" or "erotic" dancer. But these dances reveal resolutely new gestures, sources of inspiration for the avant-garde choreographers.
Thus, Raphaëlle Delaunay, a dancer at the Paris Opera who later joined the greatest contemporary companies, reinterprets in her choreographies the black dances to "appropriate this memory and this story".
Source: Corps Rebelles
More information: http://corpsrebelles.museedesconfluences.fr/
Delaunay, Raphaëlle
‘I rarely turn round to see if I'm being followed. If someone is dancing behind me, they're dancing in my shadow. For a long time I didn't want to see the traces I left behind me. I still don't know what that fear was. Maybe it was the need to escape being classified, identified.
Always ahead!
And then this digital breakaway makes me want to share the route I'm lucky enough to have. It's a journey of instinct, of the desire to constantly discover new terrain, new bodies, new ways of doing and thinking.
Being here and there in a world that constantly asks you to identify yourself seemed to me to be an opportunity: an opportunity for richness, eclecticism, variety of forms and curiosity.
I started at the age of 10 at the Paris Opera, which I left at 20 to dance with Pina Bausch, then with Alain Platel, then... then... then... my own creations with themes as different as... and right up to this work on icons such as Joséphine Baker, Michael Jackson or Beyoncé.
It's this diversity that I want to tell you about in movement, in the joy of dance, in the shifts that my life as a dancer takes me on.
This is the moment I'm offering you, the moment of a body going through very different, not to say contradictory, states, the moment of a body searching... And with a single aim, to continue to discover and nourish my insatiable desire to dance. ’
Raphaëlle Delaunay
Source and more information: https://www.raphaelledelaunay.fr/
Pecci, Jean-Louis
Jean-Louis Pecci is a canadian director.
Exposition Corps Rebelles
The exhibition Corps rebelles invited the public to discover contemporary dance. She presented the different approaches of the dancing body, illustrated by emblematic choreographies.
The question of interpretation was also at the heart of the exhibition with eight versions of The Rite of Spring created by eight great choreographers. The exhibition continued by treating notation as a tool for memorizing and transmitting a gesture.
Source: Corps rebelles
More information: http://corpsrebelles.museedesconfluences.fr/
Roots of Diversity in Contemporary Dance
Body and conflicts
A look on the bonds which appear to emerge between the dancing body and the world considered as a living organism.
James Carlès
Pantomimes
Presentation of Pantomimes in the different types of dance.
A Numeridanse Story
The American origins of modern dance: [1930-1950] from the expressive to the abstract
A Rite of Passage
Why do I dance ?
Outdoor dances
Stage theater and studio are not the only places of work or performance of a choreographic piece. Sometimes dancers and choreographers dance outside.
Bagouet Collection
The American origins of modern dance. [1960-1990] Postmodern dance and Black dance: artistic movements of their time
While the various forms of modern dance that emerged from the late 1920s onwards continued to develop, evolve and grow internationally, a new generation of dancers arose in a changing America.
Strange works
Unconventional contemporary dance shows which reinvent the rapport to the stage.
Modern Dance and Its American Roots [1900-1930] From Free Dance to Modern Dance
At the dawn of the 20th century, in a rapidly changing West, a new dance appeared: Modern Dance. In the United States as in Europe, modern trends emerge simultaneously and intertwine in thier development. Let's dive into the beginnings of American modern dance!
The Dance Biennale
Western classical dance enters the modernity of the 20th century: The Ballets russes and the Ballets suédois
If the 19th century is that of romanticism, the entry into the new century is synonymous of modernity! It was a few decades later that it would be assigned, a posteriori, the name of “neo-classical”.
Round dance
Presentation of the Round’s figure in choreography.
Female / male
A walk between different conceptions and receptions of genres in different styles and eras of dance.
Reinterpreting works: Swan Lake, Giselle
Some great shows are revisited through the centuries. Here are two examples of pieces reinterpreted by different choreographers.