To the left of the space ENG - compagnie de l`Entre-Deux

 Laurent Philippe
A la gauche de l’espace
(To the left of the space)
Premiere
8 to 24 July 2011
at la Parenthèse theatre, Avignon festival (off)
Cie De l’Entre-Deux
c/o Le 26
Dominique Mahé / Carole Albanese / Johanna Mahé-Guillier
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To the left of the space
When an old paving stone buckles beneath the doors,
And living ivy climbs up the dead acanthuses,
And water lies dormant in the moats,
Then the caryatid, in her slow revolt,
Weary at last, shall refuse to bear the archivolt,
And say, "Enough!"...
Victor Hugo, excerpt from Inner Voices
To the left of the space is a dance that vacillates, unsure of
where it stands; the ground caves in beneath it, like the thought
or feel of things. Can a dance bear crushing weights? Is it
capable, like certain weeds that crack their way through rock, of
distilling
the
heavy
alcohol
of
time
and
giving
body
to
a
lightness freed from the mythical pairing of Dionysos to Apollo,
to let its own "inner voice" appear? Should it not make a slow
volt before giving rise to a "slow revolt"? A slow volt, freeing
itself
from
an immense
weight and
drifting
inexorably
to
the
left, as if this dance needed to break from everything right,
every imposed figure, each deep symmetry. Between them (between
the two dancers), a close bond takes shape: they shall drift…
deviate…
lightness…
stretch
that,
towards
for
what
example,
they
which
sense
is
Modigliani
revealed in the figure of a sleeping caryatid…
Daniel Dobbels
Cie De l’Entre-Deux
c/o Le 26
Dominique Mahé / Carole Albanese / Johanna Mahé-Guillier
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the
strangest
miraculously
A la gauche de l’espace/ To the left of the space
Maxime Fleuriot, Danser Magazine, Oct. 2011
« Sur les accords de l'Etude numéro 1 de Pascal Dusapin, on
assiste à une danse délicate marquée par une attention aiguisée à
la présence de l'autre. Les yeux fermés, les danseuses se
concentrent sur l'espace intime de leur relation. Elles semblent
dériver avec lenteur dans un songe de sensualité. Bien loin de
toute
figure
imposée
et
à
rebours
de
toute
recherche
spectaculaire. »
« On the agreements of the Study number 1 of Pascal Dusapin, we
attend a delicate dance, where each dancer has a sharpened
attention to the other. Blindly, the dancers concentrate on the
intimate space of their relation. They seem to derive slowly in a
dream of sensualism. Indeed far from any imposed figure and any
spectacular search. »
Choreography: Daniel Dobbels
Dancers : Marine Chesnais, Carole Quettier
Music :
Etude n° 1, Pascal Dusapin ( Salabert editions S.A.)
Lighting : Boris Molinié
Duration : 30’
First tour :
> From 8 to 24 July 2011 (off on 14) in La Parenthèse theatre, in
Avignon, in the framework of La Belle Scène Saint-Denis programme
> On 24, 25, 26 Novembre 2011 at the Forum/scène conventionnée of
Blanc-Mesnil.
Production De l'Entre-Deux
Coproduction Le Forum/scène conventionnée de Blanc-Mesnil
With support from the Seine-Saint-Denis Department.
The company De l'Entre-Deux is subsidized by the ministry of Culture
and Communication/ Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles des
Pays de la Loire. The company De l'Entre-Deux is in residence at the
Forum, with support from the Seine-Saint-Denis Department.
Cie De l’Entre-Deux
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Company De l’Entre-Deux
Daniel Dobbels
Choreographer, dancer, and dance scholar, contributor and shrewd
witness of art history, Daniel Dobbels has traced, over time, a unique
path between writing and performance. Whatever his medium– words or
gestures – he has forever questioned dance to move closer to an
intimate sensitivity, in a poetic approach, to the human experience.
His pieces emerge as timeless crossings through a space renewed by
dance. With his company of dancers, he leads a meticulous exploration
of gesture, rummaging through all the body’s states to draw forth what
he considers the most intimate. From the solo to the septet, he invents
an art of relationship – of this “entre-deux” between the interior and
the exterior, between the self and the world – in search of a dance
that is “the justice of the body.”
His career began as a dancer for Susan Buirge, and continued with in
the company Arcor, founded by Christine Gérard, for ten years. With
her, he choreographed his first pieces, developing a personal body of
work that is today rich with over twenty pieces. In 2000, he founded
the company De l’Entre-Deux, notably remounting L’Enfer (original
creation 1987/ revival 2000, quintet), Est-ce-que ce qui est loin
s'éloigne de l'être humain ?, a trio inspired by the work of Oskar
Schlemmer (original creation 1999/ revival 2003 at the Théâtre de la
Ville de Paris), and She never stumbles, a solo danced by Brigitte
Asselineau to songs by Bob Dylan, performed nearly sixty times since
its creation in 1997. He next created D’un jour à l’autre (2000-2003,
“an irregular suite of five pieces”), Ni/Et (2005, trio) and
L’insensible déchirure (2006).
In 2007, he undertook the creation of Solitaires, a series of four
solos : L’Echarpe grise, with Carole Quettier (commission of the SACD
for Vif du sujet 2007), followed, in 2008, by Parfois, la colère tombe
with Anne-Sophie Lancelin, Un temps rare with Christine Gérard, and Les
yeux blonds with Aurélie Berland. In the fall of 2009, he created
Danser hors de soi (commission of the scène nationale de la Roche-surYon) for Dominique Petit.
Due to the initiative of Michel Caserta, he met the composer Gérard
Pesson with whom he created two pieces bringing together on stage the
dancers from his company and the musical ensemble 2e2m: L’épanchement
d’Echo (2007, seven dancers, fourteen musicians) and Danser de peur
(2009, four dancers and four musicians), both commissions of the
Biennale nationale de danse du Val de Marne. In spring 2010, he created
Une rencontre informelle (commission of the Concordan(s)e festival), a
poetic and choreographic piece with the writer Nicole Caligaris.
In 2011, he created To the left of the space,
Festival.
during the Avignon
All these works are the fruit of a long term relationship between loyal
collaborators and partners. These works punctuate an ensemble of
lengthy careers, between creation and transmission, within theaters
that housed the company in long term residencies: L’apostrophe-scène
nationale de Cergy-Pontoise (2004), l’Espal-scène conventionnée du Mans
Cie De l’Entre-Deux
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(from 2002 to 2010), Le Centre de développement chorégraphique de
Dijon-Bourgogne (from 2008 to 2011), Le Forum -scène conventionnée de
Blanc-Mesnil (2009-2011).
In parallel with his choreographic works, Daniel Dobbels has written
about art. He created the review Empreintes, a review for dance in
1977, joined the editorial committee of the review Lignes (1987-1999),
was an art critic for Libération (1982-1992), commentator for the radio
shows Panorama (1987-1997) and Tout arrive (2003-2007) on France
Culture. He has also published numerous books on art and dance such as
the recent Le silence des mimes blancs (2006), Des gestes non mortels
(2006) and Un art indécomposable (2007). He has been currently writing
a book on the relationships he perceives between art and dance over the
last one-hundred years.
Marine Chesnais
A graduate of the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in
Paris (1st price), Marine Chesnais attended many workshops with Trisha
Brown, Dominique Mercy, Wim Vandekeybus, Rosalind Crisp, Alban Richard,
Josef Nadj... She has practiced Kung-Fu and Butō for several years.
Since 2008, she has danced with Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux at the
National Centre for Choreography in Caen-Basse Normandie. She joined
Daniel Dobbels for Les plus courts chemins (2010), and dances in To the
left of the space.
Carole Quettier
She trained at the National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in
Paris with Susan Alexander, Peter Goss, André Lafonta, Christine Gérard
and Martine Clary (1996-2000). In parallel, at the invitation of the
flute player Jérémie Fèvre, she attended a generative improvisation
class with Rainer Boesch and Alain Savouret. She danced with Anna
Ventura, Claudio Bernardo, Charles Créange and Frédéric Lescure. Since
2002, she has danced with Hervé Robbe’s company/Centre chorégraphique
national du Havre. With De l’Entre-Deux, she dances the solo L'Echarpe
grise – one of the Solitaires -, in Danser, de peur, and in To the left
of the space. She takes part in Alain Fleischer’s movie : Choses lues,
choses vues. She also works the artist Elise Vandewalle for video
projects, notably Les Fruits noirs.
Boris Molinié
Light designer for Roger Louret’s company, the company Mi-octobre
(Serge Ricci), and l’Etoile du Nord theatre(from 1998 to 2000), he is
the technical director of festival Faits d’Hiver in Paris. He has
worked with Daniel Dobbels as a sound and video engineer, and a light
designer since 2001.
Cie De l’Entre-Deux
c/o Le 26
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T +33(0)2 99 65 67 10 - P +33 (0)6 80 28 62 04
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Cie De l’Entre-Deux
Also available on tour….
Les plus courts chemins (5 dancers, 3 parts, 1h10)
Premiere : 8, 9 Octobre 2010, Forum-scène conventionnée du Blanc-Mesnil
Choreographies : Daniel Dobbels
Les Revenants (15 mn)
With Aurélie Berland, Adrien Dantou and Carole Quettier
Gustav Mahler
/ Music :
Etre à même (20 mn)
With Adrien Dantou and Raphaël Soleilhavoup / Music: Francesco Araia,
Geminiano Giacomelli, aria sung by Cecilia Bartoli (from Sacrificium)
Effectif réduit (38 mn)
With Aurélie Berland, Marine Chesnais, Adrien Dantou, Carole Quettier
and Raphaël Soleihavoup / Music : Francisco Lopez, Portishead, Jimi
Hendrix
Danser, de peur (four dancers and four musicians, 60 mn)
Premiere on 8, 9 March 2009, Théâtre de Vitry-sur-Seine, commission of
the 15th Biennale nationale de danse of Val de Marne.
Choreography : Daniel Dobbels / Dancers : Aurélie
Quettier, Anne-Sophie Lancelin, Raphaël Soleilhavoup
Berland,
Carole
Music : Gérard Pesson/ Musical direction : Pierre Roullier Musiciens :
Véronique Briel (piano), Eric Crambes (violon), Claire Merlet (alto),
Frédéric Baldassare (cello)
Solitaires
These soli, premiered from
programme or separately.
2007
to
2009,
may
be
presented
as
a
Choreographies : Daniel Dobbels
Parfois, la colère tombe – with Anne-Sophie Lancelin
L’Echarpe grise – with Carole Quettier
Un temps rare – with Christine Gérard
Les yeux blonds – with Aurélie Berland
Danser, hors de soi (solo, 27 mn)
Premiere on 17 Novembre 2009, commisson of Le Grand R, la Roche-sur-Yon
Choreography : Daniel Dobbels/ Dance : Dominique Petit/ Music : JS Bach
Cie De l’Entre-Deux
c/o Le 26
Dominique Mahé / Carole Albanese / Johanna Mahé-Guillier
T +33(0)2 99 65 67 10 - P +33 (0)6 80 28 62 04
www.delentredeux.fr – [email protected]