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 colette.siri@ccn-grenoble.com
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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 female performers, among which four brass instrument musicians and five dancers. Together, they invoke different imaginative 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 imaginative worlds and representations of the future would emerge from it? Here, air is imagined as a container of traces and resonances, an element of interdependence of bodies, a canvas to create a choreographic mesh. The traces that sounds and movements leave in the air become the material to compose multiple fictions.
THIS IS NOT (AN ACT OF LOVE & RESISTANCE) is a cyclical piece built with common and singular trajectories, correspondences, breaks and polyrhythms.
In this piece the bodies pulsate, insist and repeat as the act of breathing itself. The group perseveres and creates invisible links through the air with the plastic, luminous and sonorous environment. The latter consists of a hybrid music composed of acoustic sounds inspired by Brass Bands and electronic atmospheres.
Here, we become workers of the air, we mobilize it just as it mobilizes us, we create invisible currents, swirls and falls. We become extensions of the other, projections of ourselves. We become archaic futures.
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
