TERRAIN VAGUE (EMPTY LOT)
artistic direction, choreography Mourad Merzouki / assistant Kader Belmoktar / performance Carima Amarouche or Séverine Chasson, Mickaël Arnaud, Rémi Autechaud, Kader Belmoktar, Olivier Boyer or Vincent Martinez, Vincent Gomez or Julien Fournier, David Rodrigues, David Soubies or Mourad Merzouki, Jennifer Suire or Laura Luca / lights Yoann Tivoli / music AS’N / additional musicians: guitar and violon Aurélien Galichet / accordian Frédéric Peyron / percussions and voice Yuri Mardonnes / sound landscape Frédérick Miclet / costumes Carima Amarouche and Valérie Alcantara / scenography Mourad Merzouki and Benjamin Lebreton / set construction Elisabeth Buisson, Stéphane Guillemin, Patrick Lerat, Gilles Simon Perret (Acte 48) / general direction Frédéric Dugied / set direction Stéphane Guillemin / light direction Yoann Tivoli or Sandie Charron or Fabrice Guilbert / sound direction Frédérick Miclet / / / / / performance created in January 2006 at the Maison de la danse de Lyon / production Compagnie Käfig, Maison de la danse de Lyon, Espace des Arts scène nationale de Chalonsur-Saône, Château Rouge Annemasse, Espace Albert Camus Bron, with the support of the Fondation BNP Paribas and the association Beaumarchais / the company KÄFIG is subsidised by the Ministry of Culture Drac Rhône-Alpes, the Region Rhône-Alpes and Culturesfrance for some of their international tours/ the company KÄFIG is in residence ar the Espace des Arts scène nationale de Chalon-sur-Saône and at the Espace Albert Camus Bron
Friday 7 and Saturday 8 December at 8:30 pm
CHOREOGRAPHY MOURAD MERZOUKI
Generally considered as a “no-place” in a divided and concentrated urban landscape, where a feeling of suffocation dominates, the empty lot is also like a pocket of air, a breath at the heart of the city. Nine dancers, actors and acrobats unite their energies and their practises in order to inhabit this desolate terrain with their poetic grace: their spectacular spinning and leaping transform the stage into a place where everything is possible.
After Franck II Louise and Kader Attou in previous seasons, the CNDC continues its exploration of the contemporary hip-hop scene by presenting those who serve as pioneers of the movement today. Mourad Merzouki is a worthy representative of such ground breakers.
