PIECE FOR 9 PERFORMERS
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CREATION ON DECEMBER 9, 2022 DECEMBER DANCE, BRUGES (BEL)
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RUNNING TIME: APPROX. 1:05 RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 12 AND UP
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CONTACT PRODUCTION COLETTE SIRI ccn
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MEDIA CONTACT DAMIEN VALETTE valette.d@gmail.com
THIS IS NOT (an act of love & resistance) is a musical and choreographic piece for nine performers, including four brass musicians and five dancers. From a feminist perspective, the piece conveys different imaginary worlds around air, through dance, music and the rhythm of speech. How do we generate energy through this element, and what does it mean to breathe together today? If air were a harbinger of things to come, what imaginings and representations of the future would it bring? Here, air is imagined as a container for traces and resonances, an element of interdependence between bodies, a canvas for creating a choreographic mesh. The traces that sounds and movements leave in the air become material for the composition of multiple fictions.
THIS IS NOT (an act of love & resistance) is a cyclical piece built around shared and singular trajectories, correspondences, ruptures and polyrhythms.
In this piece, bodies pulse, insist and repeat like the act of breathing itself. The group perseveres, creating invisible links through the air with the plastic, luminous and sonic environment. The latter consists of a hybrid music composed of acoustic sounds inspired by Brass Bands and electronic atmospheres.
Here, we become air workers. We celebrate it. We mobilize it as it mobilizes us, creating invisible currents, whirlpools and waterfalls. We become extensions of the other, projections of ourselves.
Aina Alegre (March 2023)
DESIGN & ART DIRECTION: Aina Alegre
WITH: Maria Astallé, Maria Cofan, Cosima Grand, Hanna Hedman, Kotomi Nishiwaki, Maria Puertas, Gwendal Raymond, Julia Soler, Asha Thomas
LIGHTING DESIGN: Jan Fedinger
ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSICAL COMPOSITION: Josep Tutusaus
SOUND CREATION: Vanessa Court
COSTUMES DESIGN: Andrea Otin
ARTISTIC & DRAMAATURGICAL ASSISTANCE: Quim Bigas
ARTISTIC ASSISTANTS: Yannick Hugron & Aniol Busquets
GENERAL MANAGEMENT: Juliette Rudent-Gili
SOUND MANAGER: Guillaume Olmeta
THANKS: special thanks to Enric Alegre whose song Better Future Blues accompanied the creation from beginning to end, to Pere Jou & Elsa Dumontel
CREATION PRODUCTION: Claire Nollez, Romain Courault, Clémence Padou
MUSIC: Better Futur Blues by Enric Alegre and Liberty Funeral March by Liberty Brass Band
PRODUCTION : STUDIO FICTIF
DELEGATED PRODUCTION: Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble
CO-PRODUCERS & PARTNERS: December Dance (Cultuurcentrum and Concertgebouw Brugge), Belgium; Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona - associate artist 2022 & 2023; Festival Grec, Barcelona; La Rose des Vents, Scène nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d'Ascq; le Manège scène nationale de Maubeuge ; La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie ; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne ; Théâtre et cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi Scène conventionnée ; Theater Freiburg, Germany ; Fonds Transfabrik - Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant ; Atelier de Paris / CDCN WITH THE SUPPORT OF : Mécénat de la Caisse des Dépôts ; DRAC Île-de-France ; Département du Val de Marne ; la Région Île-de-France ; Adami, organization for the collective management of performers' rights: rights management, financial assistance for projects, advocacy and career support ; Fonds SACD musique de scène ; CNDC d'Angers
