In residence at CCN
APRIL 21 TO MAY 2, 2025
Premiere end of June 2025 at Festival Montpellier Danse
CHORÉGRAPHIE ET COSTUMES : David Wampach
DANSE : Zakary Bairi, Pascal Landrau, David Wampach
SON : Jérôme Hoffman
LUMIÈRE : Abigail Fowler
COSTUMES : Marion Xardel
CONSEILS ARTISTIQUE : Dalila Khatir, Silvia Di Rienzo, Tamar Shelef, Christian Ubl
ADMINISTRATION : Maëva Rigout
PRODUCTION ET DIFFUSION : Marie C. Vanderbeke
COPRODUCTIONS : Festival Montpellier Danse 2025, CCN - Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, ENSAM, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier
© Sandy Korzekwa
In residence at CCN
APRIL 21 TO MAY 2, 2025
Premiere end of June 2025 at Festival Montpellier Danse
Mobiliser son attention et ses croyances, se mettre en tension, donner sa confiance : au service de quoi ? Pier Paolo Pasolini exhortait à « jeter son corps dans la bataille », pour peut-être finir par tout envoyer promener et parler DU FOLIE, au masculin.
Il est temps de se réveiller, de sortir de son isolement, de son confinement, de ressentir. Partir en montagne, crier au sommet, couper du bois, se chauffer… est-ce que je dis n’importe quoi ? Est-ce que je lis trop les news ? Est-ce que je cultive la peur et l’angoisse générées par cet environnement toxique ? Est-ce que je suis fou ou est-ce qu’on veut me le faire croire ?
Peut-être ai-je manqué d’interactions humaines pour me rassurer, ou peut-être ai-je surinvesti des regards éteints. Notre environnement est déterminant pour susciter et entretenir des névroses. Mais il peut aussi faire le contraire, et transformer une folie en pensée créatrice. C’est cet environnement que je veux recréer, car je veux m’entourer de ces regards qui donnent confiance et envie d’agir.
Before turning to artistic creation, David Wampach studied medicine at the University of Montpellier. His experiences as a spectator led him to take an interest in the performing arts, first in theater, then in dance. In 2000, he joined the ex.e.r.ce training program at the Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier, directed by Mathilde Monnier, before studying at Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's P.A.R.T.S. school in Brussels in 2001. In the course of his experiences, he developed a personal approach, imbued with theatrical and visual influences, which he inscribed in the Achles Association. Since 2021, he has been initiating and developing a local project in La Grand-Combe, in the Cévennes, opening a space called LA DÉTER in the town's former tourist office.
CHORÉGRAPHIE ET COSTUMES : David Wampach
DANSE : Zakary Bairi, Pascal Landrau, David Wampach
SON : Jérôme Hoffman
LUMIÈRE : Abigail Fowler
COSTUMES : Marion Xardel
CONSEILS ARTISTIQUE : Dalila Khatir, Silvia Di Rienzo, Tamar Shelef, Christian Ubl
ADMINISTRATION : Maëva Rigout
PRODUCTION ET DIFFUSION : Marie C. Vanderbeke
COPRODUCTIONS : Festival Montpellier Danse 2025, CCN - Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, ENSAM, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier
© Sandy Korzekwa
In residence at CCN
APRIL 21 TO MAY 2, 2025
Premiere end of June 2025 at Festival Montpellier Danse
CHORÉGRAPHIE ET COSTUMES : David Wampach
DANSE : Zakary Bairi, Pascal Landrau, David Wampach
SON : Jérôme Hoffman
LUMIÈRE : Abigail Fowler
COSTUMES : Marion Xardel
CONSEILS ARTISTIQUE : Dalila Khatir, Silvia Di Rienzo, Tamar Shelef, Christian Ubl
ADMINISTRATION : Maëva Rigout
PRODUCTION ET DIFFUSION : Marie C. Vanderbeke
COPRODUCTIONS : Festival Montpellier Danse 2025, CCN - Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, ENSAM, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier
© Sandy Korzekwa
In residence at CCN
APRIL 21 TO MAY 2, 2025
Premiere end of June 2025 at Festival Montpellier Danse
CHORÉGRAPHIE ET COSTUMES : David Wampach
DANSE : Zakary Bairi, Pascal Landrau, David Wampach
SON : Jérôme Hoffman
LUMIÈRE : Abigail Fowler
COSTUMES : Marion Xardel
CONSEILS ARTISTIQUE : Dalila Khatir, Silvia Di Rienzo, Tamar Shelef, Christian Ubl
ADMINISTRATION : Maëva Rigout
PRODUCTION ET DIFFUSION : Marie C. Vanderbeke
COPRODUCTIONS : Festival Montpellier Danse 2025, CCN - Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, ENSAM, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier
© Sandy Korzekwa
RESIDENCY AT CCN GRENOBLE
JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024
WITH THE ARTISTS: Ruth Childs, Katerina Andreou, Bryan Campbell, Luara Raio
SUPPORT: CCN de Grenoble, Pavillon/ADC, in progress
RESIDENCY AT CCN GRENOBLE
FROM JANUARY 2024 TO DECEMBER 2025
JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024
On arriving for her residency in the CCN Grenoble studio, facing the mountains, Ruth Childs found herself thinking about the artists who had passed through this place before her and would do so after her. She knew some of them very well, others a little less, by name or by sight, others not at all. She was struck by the lack of connection between them. She wanted to leave a note of encouragement, a surprise, check in, ask a question about something she'd picked up from their work. But due to lack of time, caught up in her own work, her thoughts simply materialized in the form of "likes" via social networks, a Facebook or Instagram page.
To combat this lack of exchange, symptomatic of the current era, she drew inspiration from the free, intimate, handwritten correspondences of Judson Church members (Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs...) to imagine a space-time for correspondence with a small group of artists. A space-time to exchange ideas, ask questions, get lost together, have fun, tell each other details of their artistic questionings and troubles. These exchanges can be short and spontaneous (like a postcard) or more polished (like a letter), but will preferably be handwritten and sent by post.
The primary aim of this project is to open up and share the experience of a genuine long-term exchange. In a second phase, and in agreement with the group, we could consider publishing some or all of the correspondence produced in 2026.