An extract remodelled by the group Ainsi Danse, coordinator Vera Noltenius,  as part of Danse en amateur et répertoire programme 2018/2019 (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing). Transmission by Lisa Guerrero, Régina Meier, Nathalie Pernette and Vincent Simon. Presented 25 May 2019, place de la Pointe, Pantin.

The dance work when it was created 

Les Miniatures

Firstly produced 15 May 2009 in a courtyard, 82 rue de Merlan in Noisy-Le-Sec, during the festival Rencontres d’Ici et d’Ailleurs 

Choreography: Nathalie Pernette

Dance work for 4 performers: Arnaud Cabias, Laurent Falguiéras, Nathalie Pernette, Pauline Simon

Music: Franck Gervais for L’Insomnie, La Rose, Les Oignons and Einstürzende Neubauten, Ich warte for L’Apparition

Original duration: 42 minutes

The group

Ainsi Danse (Jeuxey, Grand-Est)

The dancers of this group, members of the Ainsi Danse association, regularly take part in courses and workshops with dancers and choreographers – including Daniel Larrieu, Hans van den Broek, Kader Attou, Pascale Houbin, Denis Plassard, etc. By drawing on the repertoire and techniques which these contemporary creators transmit to them, they produce works which they present to the public. In 2015, the association took part in the French National Encounters of Danse en amateur et répertoire with Denis Plassard’s DéBaTailles. Alongside this work, the association carries out awareness campaigns and proposes excursions to cultural destinations in Lorraine.

The project

Nathalie Pernette created Les Miniatures in 2009 for the Chalon dans la rue Festival, with the desire to move beyond the traditional relationship with the public and to take over the landscape. A street, a square, a park, a market could host short performances which appear and disappear into the urban fabric. These miniature, nomad dances, which address themes close to her heart – such as the human-animal relationship, the living and the inanimate – enable the group to dance anywhere and to play with the coincidences of potential interaction with spectators.

Challenge, blows received, given, hand to hand with the invisible, a raw energy carved by meticulous movements.

As well as manipulating others' bodies to capture their articular mobility, Nathalie Pernette anchors movement in spontaneity, the emotional discharge fed by interior sensation.

In this dancer-choreographer, classically trained since childhood, dance is nimbly embodied, verylintense and angular. Instinct and discipline against a background of permanent enquiry. Her time at Françoise and Dominique Dupuy's school only confirmed this zeal.

After working for twelve years with Andréas Schmid, she founded her own company in 2001 and kept up the repertoire of earlier works.

Whether out and about in town or on stage, Nathalie Pernette is always alert, always testing her theories, pursuing her obsessions. At length, with passion and with that dose of lucidity befitting a true researcher's spirit that is never satisfied. Over sixteen years and sixteen shows (six of which were in partnership with Andréas Schmid), Nathalie Pernette has turned work into a virtue.

Further information

compagnie-pernette.com

Updating: November 2010

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