"Developing for several years a study project around the gesture of hammering, I asked Yannick Hugron, friend and choreographic artist, to talk to me about his experience as a former dancer of Basque folk dances.
As if in a kind of self-hypnosis, I asked him to dive into his past, into his physical memory, and to elaborate a story with a few gaps, temporal voids allowing to activate the imagination.
I wanted to broaden this research and talk to other people practicing these musics, these dances, on the Basque territory... and thus collect fragments of stories.
With this corpus of memory, I invite Yannick Hugron to join me on stage to together summon, map and reinterpret stories, gestures and movements, collected during these conversations. We'll activate memories of the body and compose our own choreographic fiction." Aina Alegre
DESIGN: Aina Alegre
COLLABORATION & INTERPRETATION: Aina Alegre, Yannick Hugron
SOUND CREATION: Aina Alegre
SOUND EDITING AND OVERHEAD MANAGEMENT: Guillaume Olmeta
ARTISTIC & DRAMATIC ADVISORS: Quim Bigas & Capucine Intrup
CREATION PRODUCTION : Claire Nollez, Romain Courault
Sound editing based on recordings of conversations with Jon Vernier, Julien Corbineau, Martxel Rodriguez Etxabide,Zibel Damaestoy, Arthur Barat & Yannick Hugron, Basque folk dancers.
Christophe Raynaud de Lage, Nathalie Sternalski
PRODUCER: STUDIO FICTIF
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble
CO-PRODUCERS : Festival d’Avignon & la SACD, Malandain Ballet Biarritz / Centre chorégraphique national de Nouvelle-Aquitaine en Pyrénées / Atlantiques ; CNDC – Angers.
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: DRAC Île-de-Franc
The Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble is financed by Drac Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes/Ministère de la culture et de la communication Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, Département de l’Isère, Région Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes.