Interprétée par neuf danseurs, avec cinq guitares électriques et cinq  amplificateurs, la création de Dimitri Chamblas et Kim Gordon prend  forme sous un zeppelin lumineux d’où émergent et disparaissent des  silhouettes. Ces ombres sont les oubliés des grandes métropoles :  prisonniers, anciens, fantômes improductifs, les délaissés, les indécis.  Rendus visibles dans cet artéfact lui-même prêt à disparaître et  incarnés par des danseurs aux mouvements précis, ils errent, hésitent ou  affirment soudain un élan vital, font une tentative, la réitèrent, la  partagent. Dans ces émergences, au cœur de cet isolement collectif, la  télépathie et l’intuition maintiennent la communication. Entre les  lignes et sous la peau, la force motrice de l’avenir et du vivant  continue de circuler et de résister.

From the À bras-le-corps duet created with Boris Charmatz in 1993 to the one with Kim Gordon in 2018, Dimitri Chamblas' career reflects a taste for encounters that he never ceases to develop. He has worked with a diverse array of artists, including Bret Easton Ellis, William Forsythe, Glen Keane, Benjamin Millepied, Mathilde Monnier, Alex Prager, Nile Rodgers, Claire Tabouret, and Virginie Viard. 

In 2015, he founded and ran the 3e Scène at the Opéra national de Paris, then became Dean of Dance at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2017. Dimitri Chamblas defines his own cartography of creation, moving dance to places where it is least expected, such as inside high-security prisons, as witnessed by Manuela Dalle's documentary Dancing in A-Yard. 

His work has been presented at the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Opéra national de Paris, Performa New York, NYU Skirball (New York,) and the Musée du Louvre (Paris)

Today, it's through his Studio that he develops his projects: takemehome, a piece for 9 performers in collaboration with Kim Gordon, the staging of Crowd Out, an opera for 1000 voices by David Lang, or Slow Show, a performance for fifty participants that slows down time and gives rise to an eponymous installation made up of a series of video portraits. As a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and artistic director, dance is the vehicle that allows Dimitri Chamblas to travel through various geographical and social contexts around the globe.

Source and more information: https://www.dimitrichamblas.com/

Kim Gordon is a visual artist, writer and co-founder of experimental post-punk rock band Sonic Youth.

In 2012, Gordon formed Body/Head with Bill Nace and they released two albums: Coming Apart in 2013 and The Switch in 2018. In parallel, it is as a visual artist that she is present in various museums with solo exhibitions She Bites Her Tender Mind at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Lo-Fi Glamour at the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and at the Museum In Ballpark in Lucerne, Switzerland. Gordon is the author of two memoirs Girl in a Band and No Icon and has co-authored an essay on music This Woman's work with Irish writer Sinead Gleason. 

In 2019, she released her first solo album, No Home Record. That same year, she met Dimitri Chamblas and together they began experimenting with music and dance, resulting in a duo and then collective pieces. In March 2024, Kim Gordon released her second solo album, The Collective.

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr