Promotional material

Cie
Félicette
Chazerand
The threaded silken self
A
danCe and circus project for 4 performers
on
floor, rope and tight wire.
A 2013 creation - 50 minutes - From 5 years old
Parcours asbl / Cie Félicette Chazerand
www.parcoursasbl.be
Rue de l’Intendant, 111 – 1080 Bruxelles
+ 32 2 324 93 31 – [email protected]
Compagnie conventionnée par la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Wallonie
– Service de la Danse
What is it all about?
The Threaded silken self: it’s about going and meet people that
are bonding together. Go from surprises to surprises in link with the energy of
life and death.
It’s an introspective journey but rejecting neither the other people nor the
environment. It’s about a fleeting life that is quite important for the people; the
constant reproduction that carries on the continuity of our passage.
It leaves a trace of what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen.
The living, the environment and the time are the three main
elements of this creation.
It’s about acting in complicity with the different elements and the performers. That’s
what the creation is about: a dance between the self and the silk.
Sensuality, energy, strength, and sweetness will determine the performers’ coloured
body movements.
Let’s use the rope, the wire, the floor and the space to develop
and give a meaning to this creation.
The body attached to the rope underscores the verticality challenging the gravity as
well as the lost of balance. On the other hand, the rope brings out the horizontality of
the show giving a sense of infinity, space and time. Mixing the contrasting desires of
the dancer who wants to fly with the circus artist who wants to anchor the earth.
This fragility weaves the thread of oneself with all the delicacy of
the silk.
Introduction
What binds and connects us ? Relationships are not random events left to chance. Our experience
tells us that we either walk together or we part ways. As a Calder mobile, formed by the tight wire,
rope and the interpreters, the scenes created on stage tirelessly weave links between spaces and
beings, always seeking balance in face of imbalance. A threaded silken self moves towards the one, or
towards the many that bind us together to weave, unweave and recreate relationships over space and
time. Four artists - dancers and circus performers, form a team of "me" to speak of a "self" between
"us" and "you" – old and young ones without exception. Suspended between Heaven and Earth, we
embark on a discovery of a new space of freedom.
The staff
Artistic direction:
Artistic partner:
Assistantship:
Writing and performance:
Music:
Costumes:
Creation & Stage manager:
Stage manager (light):
Video editing:
Pictures:
Stage manager:
Félicette Chazerand
Mira Vanden Bosch
Florence Augendre, Annick Walachniewicz
Marie-Cerise Bayle, Anna Buhr, Jérôme d'Orso, MariaEugenia Lopez
Claire Goldfarb, Olivier Richard
Cathy Péraux
Marco Colabucci
Emmanuel Deck, Hajer Iblisdir
Renaud Grandjean
Félicette Chazerand, Hajer Iblisdir, Sidonie Panache
Marco Colabucci, Hajer Iblisdir
Acknowledgements:
Marceline Cols, Cécilia Kanconda, Anouk Llaurens, Gaspard Berlier, L’ESAC, l’Espace Catastrophe et la
Maison du Cirque.
A production of Parcours asbl.
In coproduction with l'Espace Culturel G. Brassens de St Martin Boulogne (FR).
Supported by la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, service de la danse, la Ville de Strasbourg (FR), le Théâtre de la
Place de Liège (BE) and la SACD.
In partnership with l’Echevinat de la Culture de la Commune de Schaerbeek.
Technical information
You can download all the technical documents on the following website:
www.parcoursasbl.be / the threaded silken self / for
promoters :http://www.parcoursasbl.be/spip.php?article19#pro
For 4 performers - Duration: 50’
Two apparatus: rope + wire
Gauge: 180 (academic) 250 à 300 every public
Basic technical elements
Italian-style black box, floor + black dance floor
Width: 10m / Depth: 10m / Height: 5,5m
Set up: 10 to 12 hours + 2 hours (technical rehearsal)
Load out: 2h30
How to hang a rope
(Hanging rope plan is to be downloaded on the website of the company)
The assembly time includes the set up of how to hang a rope. Marco, the stage
manager, is a specialist in that field.
Please contact him beforehand in order to check the feasibility of hanging the rope in
a specific space.
Animations
There will be animations for children, their parents or their teachers. These animations (about the
link created through dance and circus) will take place with the choreographer and/or the performers
before or after the spectacle. Through games of looks, observation and concentration, children are
invited to participate in a playful dance. During this dance, children will acknowledge the notion of
space, perimeters, territories, borders and relationship (to the self, the others and the environment).
Educational booklet is to be downloaded on the company’s website (the company can provide
several printed copies).
La Cie Félicette Chazerand
The company Félicette Chazerand privileges in its approach the ’marriage’ and the
contrast of different talents, a unique perception, the harmony of different techniques.
It privileges the creative complicity by which the roles define themselves in the
creative process, sometimes in the choreographic writing, sometimes in the look,
sometimes in the exchange of ideas that embody the choreographic project.
her with its creations, Parcours asbl (non-profit
(non profit organisation) raises, at the same
Together
time, awareness to contemporary dance and choreography with children and teachers
as well as dancers and choreographers wishing to engage in this area. This work
associates itself to an invitation to think, nourished by numerous encounters, in
Belgium and abroad. In targeting its creations at young audiences, the company
brings dance to other publics.
Félicette Chazerand’s company is supported
supported by Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Wallonie
– Dance
department. It also benefits, according to projects, the support of COCOF, SACD,
WBI.
Short list of creations:
Solo seule (1989) - Pois et mesures (1995) - La rouquine (1996) - Corps
confiants (1997) - Carte postale (2000) - Poil et plume (2001) - Pénélope
(2003) - Le collier de perles (2005)
(
- A l’ombre des arbres* (2007) Jury
ury awards –
Rencontres de Huy « Awakening of senses » - Spirale* (2009) - Solo en duo*
duo
(2012) - Au fil de soi(e)*
* (2013)
* Shows on tour
Biographies des artistes
Maria Eugenia Lopez
Dancer
Original from Venezuela Maria Eugenia Lopez starts by practicing artistic gymnastics
before starting her dance training at the National School of Dance and graduate as an
interpreter in Caracas. In Venezuela, she works with the Taller Dance Company of
Caracas, Jose Ledezma, and participates as a choreographer at the much acclaimed
Festival of young Choreographers with Vis and Hacia la Noche.
In 2001, she joins the Vocational Company Coline in Istres, France, under the
direction of Bernadette Tripier with the participation of different choreographers i.e.
Jean Claude Galotta, Angels Margarit, Michel Kelemenis, Thierry Bae amongst other.
In Belgium, she works with Matteo Moles, Irene K and joins the Company Félicette
Chazerand in 2008 for the creation of Spiral.
Anna Buhr
Dancer and rope artist
Anna Buhr is defined as air dancer. In her research, she explores how gravity and the
void can create an intimate dialogue between the body, the rope and space. Her work
shows a character that is far removed from the stereotype of the air figure, and
instead introduces the human being to the audience through its gestures; suspended
by the force of one hand, the character displays both its fragility and its sweetness. _
Anna Buhr graduated in 2000 from the Graduate School of Circus Arts in Brussels
(ESAC). Since then she has continued to develop her experiences of interpretation
with circus companies, but also in the world of theatre and dance. Her encounters
have led her to work for companies with very diverse artistic qualities.
Her debut was in 2001 with "le Cirque des Oiseaux fous". Then in 2002, she
developed her own work in Cie Acouphène. In parallel, she joined the theatrical show
"Sans famille," with le Théâtre du Préau. In 2004, she flew to Japan to join the troupe
Cahin Caha in the show " Grimm". She then worked for la Cie de la Valise and
collaborated with the composer Simon Thiérrée on the duet " Zail ". In 2006, she
created the play " Mue " under the direction of Gaelle Bisellach Roig (Cie de la
Manoeuvre) . In 2008, she joined the artists of Circus Marcel with Belgian Circus Tent.
In 2009, she was asked to manipulate the giant spider designed by la Cie de la
Machine on the project "les Mécaniques Savantes "(Yokoama / Japan) and the
German choreographer Stefan Dreher invited her on the project" Save all Dogs ". As a
dialogue between circus and dance, Anna chose to create her own company, la
compagnie du Cardage with dancer Elodie Donaque: a dance circus, dance
choreography.
Jérôme D’Orso
Dancer and tight wire artist
Jérôme trained in circus arts at Théâtres Acrobatiques in Marseille. He studied and
practiced acrobatics; rock, classical and contemporary dance ; hand to hand ; and
specializes in dance on the tight wire. He is an actor - acrobat in various creations
directed by Jonathan Sutton and burlesque and poetic performances inspired by the
work of Beckett, Debussy and Calvino. He is part of the research group "Structure du
jeu / Structure de l’écriture – Méthode Stanislawski" with Gardens structure.
Jérôme has been practicing Tai chi chuan and martial arts. He trains in Axis Syllabus
with Frey Faust and has become a teacher of this approach to movement. He is also
an instructor in dance contact. _ In 2001 he created the " Art’s Felus " Company and
performs shows for the street. Jérôme also dances for the company, Thierry Thieu
Niang and with the performers collective, Ornic’art. In addition, Jérôme created new
works with Entrop, the company that he started in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he has
danced
with
the
company,
Hors
Commerce.
Since 2008, his pedagogical activities have expanded to include teaching circus arts
and contemporary dance. His ongoing artistic search has lead him in particular to
create the ’12 mm tightrope ’, an area of freedom and expression onto which he
transposes the potential of today’s dance.
Marie-Cerise Bayle
Dancer and trapeze artist
As far as she can remember, there have been fireworks and people on stilts with
excessive makeup (her parents are perched up high) , music " à toute brindezingue " ,
crowds in the street... At six, already, a small role in "le Soulier de Satin" of Paul
Claudel, direction Jean -Luc Terrade. Then studying classical harp at the Conservatoire
de Bordeaux, Aquitaine. Then the theater... Then the circus... to be precise, the aerial
circus.
After having graduated in 2003 from CNAC (15th promotion) in swinging trapeze, she
rushed into great adventures of collective creations with different companies: Le
Cirque de la Bavette, la Cie Parole Nomade, la Cie Kirkas Gaya, la Cie Tout Fou To
Fly.
Alongside these collaborative works, her ongoing questioning centered around themes
of presence and movement; subtle and visible branches of the human being ; and
openness and generosity . She later trained in kinesiology, lyrical song, dance and
clowning with Caroline Obin, Paul Andre Sagel (at the CNAC in 2009).
As a background to everything, over the past four years, she has been working with
Mathieu Benayoune, her partner on stage. Gradually their common search narrowed
to move them towards a love and a sense of art that looks at how society shapes us,
including points such as strength, resistance, creativity and freedom.
Press reviews
La Voix du Nord
Dance and circus in the Threaded silken self
“During the Festival Enfant Phare (espace Brassens), Félicette Chazerand’s company presented its
new spectacle: “The Threaded silken self”. It’s a contemporary dance spectacle that goes alongside
with circus. Chazerand’s choreography expresses the link that is bonding two people together
beautifully, and also people that we meet throughout one’s life. On the rope or on the wire, circus
artists demonstrated their great talent. All of them occupy the space quite casually. That proves there
is a lot of training and control.”
La voix du Nord (FR) – 12-05-2013
La Libre.be
Félicette Chazerand – The Threaded silken self
“They are four performers dancing on the floor and in the air (on a wire and a rope), meeting each
other and bonding together. It’s a performance alternately full of sweetness and joy. All four
performers are very impressive. Félicette Chazerand, the choreographer, shows us the different,
multiple and sensory threads of life. The scenic device, inspired by Calder’s mobiles, is cunning. It’s
easy to imagine children taken in the mosse and conquered by this picture.”
COLASSE SARAH, Wednesday 9-11-2013
Le Ligueur.be
Rencontres de Huy: from 5 years old
The Threaded silken self – Félicette Chazerand’s company
“The structure reminds us of a boat, with a tight thread. Four dancers occupy the space. The thread is
pinched and everyone begins to pass each other, to be strirred. Then comes the bow. It caresses and
creates the great approaches of a couple. A rope is hung; so that the artists can climb on it, swing it.
That is a good start. The vivid coloured costumes and the new movements with the thread draw the
attention. It’s lively as a school playground (, which would have been choreographed carefully).”
P.M. 9-25-2013