Stäbetanz
2015 - Director : Caroff, Stéphane
Choreographer(s) : Wavelet, Christophe (France) Schlemmer, Oskar (Germany)
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
Stäbetanz
2015 - Director : Caroff, Stéphane
Choreographer(s) : Wavelet, Christophe (France) Schlemmer, Oskar (Germany)
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
Stäbetanz
(Stick dance)
Between 1926 and 1929, the Dessau Bauhaus presented works of an experimental nature that Oskar Schlemmer designed in collaboration with young artists who came to study in this school. At the end of the First World War, the European avant-garde movements were fascinated by the utopias of “the new man”, soon to be systematically undermined by the rise of European fascist regimes and Nazism. Between these two disastrous events, Oskar Schlemmer was one of those who relentlessly questioned the aporias, the contradictions but also the potentialities of which the name of art condenses the promise. A tireless inventor, he constantly dialogued and debated with the art of his time. Alongside his teachings, writings and research into the fields of drawing, painting and sculpture, his work intended for the stage placed at the heart of his project the relationships of body and gesture in their relations to the space and time of history. His Stäbetanz, a temporal activation of a constructivist sculpture, chants the invention of choreographic abstraction.
(source: programme of the CND)
Wavelet, Christophe
Art critic and curator, Christophe Wavelet co-directed the activities of the Quatuor Knust project (1993-2001), sat on the editorial boards of the journals Vacarme and Mouvement, watched over the activities of the international research pole at the National Center of Dance, then directed the LiFE- International Place of Emerging Forms (2005-2010), institution dedicated to the production and diffusion of contemporary scenes of art. His articles and essays are published in numerous magazines and occasionally in exhibition catalogs. Prioritizing discursive projects from different cultural areas, in 2012 and 2013 he was the laureate of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, and worked on an essay and the French translation of Writings of the Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica. He also designed and curated the "Scenes de Geste" program at the CND in November 2015.
Schlemmer, Oskar
Oskar Schlemmer (Stuttgart, September 4th 1888 - Baden-Baden April 13th 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, man of the theatre and choreographer. He was one of the most innovative creators of the Bauhaus. He imagined a "mathematics of dance". One of his best known works is Triadisches Ballett.
Caroff, Stéphane
Stäbetanz
Choreography : Oskar Schlemmer - Reprise et transmission sous la direction de Christophe Wavelet
Interpretation : Alma Toaspern
Other collaborations : Enregistré au CND le dimanche 8 novembre 2015 dans le cadre de Scènes du geste
LATITUDES CONTEMPORAINES
James Carlès
Meeting with literature
Collaboration between a choreographer and a writer can lead to the emergence of a large number of combinations. If sometimes the choreographer creates his dance around the work of an author, the writer can also choose dance as the subject of his text.
Dance and music
The relationship between music and choreographic works varies throught dance history.
Dance and visual arts
Dance and visual arts have often been inspiring for each other and have influenced each other. This Parcours can not address all the forms of their relations; he only tries to show the importance of plastic creation in some choreographies.
The American origins of modern dance: [1930-1950] from the expressive to the abstract
Black Dance
Why do I dance ?
Scenic space
A dance performance takes place in a defined spatial area ... or not. This course helps to understand the occupation of the stage space in dance.
Contemporary techniques
This Parcours questions the idea that contemporary dance has multiples techniques. Different shows car reveal or give an idea about the different modes of contemporary dancer’s formations.
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!
Rituals
Discover how the notion of ritual makes sense in various dances through these extracts.