CCN Grenoble

LATIFA LAÂBISSI

DANSES TORDUES AND PRODIGIES

In residence at CCN

FEBRUARY 10 TO 21, 2025

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Premiere November 2025 at La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE: Latifa Laâbissi
INSTALLATION: Nadia Lauro
LIGHTING: Eduardo Abdala
SOUND: Jérôme Tuncer
EXTERNAL REGARDS: Gilles Amalvi, Isabelle Launay, Stéphane Foenkinos

PRODUCTION: Figure Project
COPRODUCTION (in progress): La Ménagerie de verre - Paris, Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes, Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse - Paris, Centre national de la danse - Pantin, La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène à Lausanne
STUDIO HOME (applications submitted and in progress): Ballet National de Marseille, ICI-CCN de Montpellier, CNDC à Angers, CCN d'Orléans

Débora Ramos

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In residence at CCN

FEBRUARY 10 TO 21, 2025

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Premiere November 2025 at La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris

"I belong to a family of twisted dances that includes the Polar dancer of the 1900s, Valeska Gert, Joséphine Baker and, in a completely different register, zouk dancers. These dances are twisted because they seek political and social strength in the grotesque, far from the straight and narrow. Latifa Laâbissi

Danses Tordues et Prodigies is "a montage of dance and words", part lecture, part performance. Latifa Laâbissi breaks the vertical codes of the lecture, disregarding them and lending her body to those who have influenced her. "The heterogeneity of sources and the mixing of registers are an integral part of my work", says Latifa Laâbissi, who draws her inspiration from the abstract American choreography of Merce Cunningham, from which she emerged, as well as from the history of art and performance art, and the new hybrid relationships she weaves between dance revue, stand-up, humor, satire...

Latifa Laâbissi, dancer and choreographer, has been building an exploratory and collaborative artistic career since her international debut in 2006 with Self Portrait Camouflage. Often working in tandem, notably with set designer Nadia Lauro, she has developed a rich repertoire combining stage and museum performances. Her approach is distinguished by intense collaborations, such as with Antonia Baehr for landmark works like Consul et Meshie (2018) and Cavaliers Impurs (2023), and with filmmaker Manon de Boer, resulting in hybrid projects like Party (1) & (2) and Persona. Associated with the Théâtre national de Bretagne since 2021, she also directs the Extension Sauvage festival in rural areas, affirming her commitment to contemporary dance that is accessible and integrated into diverse contexts.

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LATIFA LAÂBISSI

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE: Latifa Laâbissi
INSTALLATION: Nadia Lauro
LIGHTING: Eduardo Abdala
SOUND: Jérôme Tuncer
EXTERNAL REGARDS: Gilles Amalvi, Isabelle Launay, Stéphane Foenkinos

PRODUCTION: Figure Project
COPRODUCTION (in progress): La Ménagerie de verre - Paris, Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes, Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse - Paris, Centre national de la danse - Pantin, La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène à Lausanne
STUDIO HOME (applications submitted and in progress): Ballet National de Marseille, ICI-CCN de Montpellier, CNDC à Angers, CCN d'Orléans

Débora Ramos

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In residence at CCN

FEBRUARY 10 TO 21, 2025

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Premiere November 2025 at La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE: Latifa Laâbissi
INSTALLATION: Nadia Lauro
LIGHTING: Eduardo Abdala
SOUND: Jérôme Tuncer
EXTERNAL REGARDS: Gilles Amalvi, Isabelle Launay, Stéphane Foenkinos

PRODUCTION: Figure Project
COPRODUCTION (in progress): La Ménagerie de verre - Paris, Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes, Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse - Paris, Centre national de la danse - Pantin, La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène à Lausanne
STUDIO HOME (applications submitted and in progress): Ballet National de Marseille, ICI-CCN de Montpellier, CNDC à Angers, CCN d'Orléans

Débora Ramos

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In residence at CCN

FEBRUARY 10 TO 21, 2025

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Premiere November 2025 at La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris

Blending genres and redefining formats, Latifa Laâbissi's creations bring onto the stage a multiple off-field in which figures and voices emerge. In Self portrait camouflage (2006) and Loredreamsong (2010), the use of the voice and face as a vehicle for minority states becomes inseparable from the act of dancing. Continuing her reflections on the archive, she created Écran somnambule and La part du rite (2012) based on German dance of the 1920s. Pourvu qu'on ait l'ivresse (2016), co-created with scenographer Nadia Lauro, produces visions, landscapes and images where the excessive, the monstrous, the beautiful, the random, the comic and the frightening rub shoulders.

In 2016, a monograph on her body of work was published by Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers and Les Presses du réel. In 2018, she created the performance Consul et Meshie with Antonia Baehr. She also collaborates with artist duo Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz on the film installation Moving Backwards presented at the Swiss Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. In the same year, her latest creation, White Dog, toured the festivals of Marseille, Tanz im August in Berlin, Automne in Paris and the TNB festival in Rennes, before continuing its French and international tour.

In 2021, Ghost Party (1) is a duo performance with Dutch video artist Manon de Boer, and together they made the film, Ghost Party (2), as well as the film Persona, based on the figure of the witch after Écran Somnambule. At the same time, Latifa Laâbissi creates a piece in the form of a vigil with Brazilian choreographer Marcelo Evelin, entitled La Nuit tombe quand elle veut, 2021. In May 2022, a new work is created, Fugitive Archives, a commission for 8 dancers, for the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine on the occasion of the Swedish Ballet's centenary. In 2023, Cavaliers impurs, a duet created in collaboration with Antonia Baehr. In 2023 at Wiels in Brussels and Jeu de Paume in Paris, they inaugurate the publication of the book Another Ghost Party.

Latifa Laâbissi has been an associate artist at the TNB since 2021. She has been artistic director of the Extension Sauvage festival since 2011.

CORRESPON-
DANCES

DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE: Latifa Laâbissi
INSTALLATION: Nadia Lauro
LIGHTING: Eduardo Abdala
SOUND: Jérôme Tuncer
EXTERNAL REGARDS: Gilles Amalvi, Isabelle Launay, Stéphane Foenkinos

PRODUCTION: Figure Project
COPRODUCTION (in progress): La Ménagerie de verre - Paris, Théâtre National de Bretagne - Rennes, Chaillot Théâtre national de la Danse - Paris, Centre national de la danse - Pantin, La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène à Lausanne
STUDIO HOME (applications submitted and in progress): Ballet National de Marseille, ICI-CCN de Montpellier, CNDC à Angers, CCN d'Orléans

Débora Ramos

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between artists

RESIDENCY AT CCN GRENOBLE

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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

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RESIDENCY AT CCN GRENOBLE

FROM JANUARY 2024 TO DECEMBER 2025

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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.