Les yeux dans les yeux
2013 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Fontaine, Geisha (France) Cottreau, Pierre (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Les yeux dans les yeux
2013 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Fontaine, Geisha (France) Cottreau, Pierre (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Yeux dans les yeux (Les)
Geisha Fontaine and Pierre Cottreau present a new work, with Japanese influences, combining dance, text and film. What will the bodies, the words and the images allow us to see? Let's open our eyes!
An old dancer goes to Japan to research Spinoza's treatise on the rainbow. Spinoza is the perfect philosopher for dancers, having developed a “practical philosophy” in which the body is very present.
Japan makes an impression on the dancer in several different ways. As she does not speak Japanese and the majority of the Japanese speak only their own language, she devotes herself to tirelessly observing the country, its shapes and its details. She questions things, gradually becoming more perceptive. Little by little, she starts to do what she sees; she is inspired to finally do something different and relies on Spinoza's treatise to physically drag her gaze somewhere else.
“Les yeux dans les yeux” is the performance of this adventure.
Further information
Mille plateaux associés Website
Updating: June 2013
Fontaine, Geisha
Choreographer, performer and researcher of dance, Geisha Fontaine began her career as a ballet dancer, then trained under Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais in New York and Hideyuki Yano in Paris. She then set up the centre de danse contemporaine (Centre for Contemporary Dance) Le Dansoir in Toulouse and worked as a dancer for several contemporary dance companies. In 1998, she founded the Mille Plateaux Associés dance company with Pierre Cottreau. She was the winner of the Villa Médicis – Hors les murs residence in Japan in 2010.
Awarded her art PhD from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Geisha Fontaine was published by the Centre national de la danse (National Dance Centre) in 2004 (a book which has been translated into Spanish and Japanese), while “Tu es le danseur”, 2008 and “Là”, 2009, were published by Micadanses. She has collaborated on several joint publications, notably those published by CNRS. She is invited regularly as an artist and a researcher to various universities in France and abroad (Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Santiago…).
Further information
Mille plateaux associés website
Updated : june 2013
Cottreau, Pierre
Graduate of La Fémis (the French state film school), Pierre Cottreau began his artistic career as a producer and cinematographer and collaborated on several full-length films in this capacity. He explores the possible connections between the filmed image and dance. Having also studied art history, he experiments with image and film and where they overlap in different media: cinema, dance and photography. Since the creation of Mille Plateaux Associés, he has choreographed the company's pieces with Geisha Fontaine and produced several films and documentaries, in particular the evolutive film “Millibar”.
Further information : Mille plateaux associés website
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Yeux dans les yeux (Les)
Choreography : Geisha FONTAINE, Pierre COTTREAU
Interpretation : Geisha FONTAINE, Sylvain DUFOUR
Video conception : Pierre COTTREAU
Lights : Sandie CHARRON
Other collaborations : Maquillage Sylvain DUFOUR - Traduction japonais/français Kazumi FUCHIGAMI
Duration : 75 minutes
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