HUYNH / CHARMATZ
Wednesday 5 December at 8:30 pm
Dancer and choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh has been the artistic director of the CNDC since 2004. Boris Charmatz has been welcomed as a creative resident by the CNDC and the Nouveau Théâtre d’Angers and will present the première of his next work in Angers during autumn 2008.
These two personalities, whose paths have often crossed since their debuts, have chosen to organise an evening around their universe of multiple intersections. Recognised as two exceptional interpreters of the French choreographic scene, both empowered by personal journeys of unique choreography, the works that they invite us to see or re-see contain this idea of intersection, of crossing.
Three works form the evening’s program, punctuated by other surprises...
LA FEUILLE (THE LEAF)
PERFORMANCE OF EMMANUELLE HUYNH AND NICOLAS FLOC’H
WITH EMMANUELLE HUYNH, NICOLAS FLOC’H AND NUNO BIZARRO
Polymorphous monochromes float, rise, fade away into the empty space... After having worked together on Numéro, Nicolas Floc’h et Emmanuelle Huynh continue to confront their visions of space with La Feuille (the Leaf).
DUO DE TROIS BOLÉROS (DUET OF THREE BOLEROS)
CHOREOGRAPHY ODILE DUBOC / WITH EMMANUELLE HUYNH AND BORIS CHARMATZ
"The two dancers brush against one another in a duet with eyes closed... Odile Duboc has learned over time how to tame a sort of organic musicality that is not afraid of confronting a score as well known as that of Ravel. Avoiding the banal, the carnal breath of the dance pulsates inside the work bolero like a slowly charged electric fluid." Jean-Marc Adolphe
DUO EXTRAIT DE CON FORTS FLEUVE (Extract of a Duet from CON FORTS FLEUVE)
CHOREOGRAPHY BORIS CHARMATZ / WITH CHRISTOPHE IVES AND BORIS CHARMATZ
By way of background to this piece, in 1997, Dimitri Chamblas and Boris Charmatz worked on a dance that marked their reunion after their first duet, À bras-le-corps. They used an old tablecloth that they tied in order to link themselves effectively and irreparably. That duet, which then served as the template for the dance Con Forts Fleuve (a work created in 1999 for 9 dancers), even though it does not appear as such, is offered in its most naked form. Only the original costumes of the piece remain and the essence of that dance performed "suffocatingly", head buried in a pair of pants whose legs encircle the neck.
