TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010 AT 20H - OPÉRA BERLIOZ / LE CORUM
Murder. Six suspects. An enigma. First Ballet detective story, The Contest series is nothing but black series funny. In the crosshairs, the major international competitions where every ballet dancer has two minutes to win or be eliminated ...! In this ballet, cut like a film, with flashbacks, short clips and stills, Maurice Bejart installs a real suspense in this satire of the middle of the ballet where everyone wants to be first when everyone 's spies and made "dirty tricks" under the amused eye of the Master, the jury or the choreographer. For it must be seen as a chronicle of the life of a young dancer who has to play his career in a few moments. A hard world, with its rules, criteria and hierarchies, as compared Béjart happy to "a cattle market"where each individual finds himself flanked by a number, but full of hope and devotion, ready to sacrifice everything - including including its soul - on the altar of The Dance. The contest is a difficult ballet to dance. It must be able to exceed the technical slide flips and big cast of an academic with the purest disarticulations béjartiennes, while not breaking the narrative not humorous uses all the cliches of ballet diverted so funny.
"Through the arrows shot theorists drying of the dance, "said Gil Roman, Maurice put its own ideas with a lightness which many could learn. I wanted to take the ballet "old" 24 years because it seems that Maurice was revealed, as perhaps never before, the variety of scenic and theatrical imagination, his resources and his dance communication power .'The public, meanwhile, is invited to play Hercule Poirot. Agnes Izrine
The first "detective" ballet, The Competition, IS Constructed like a movie. Maurice Bejart instilling true suspense in this satire of the world of classical dance. "Maurice Reveals the creeping scope of scenic and theatrical imagination Loved ..." Explains Gil Roman. As for the audience, They Are Being Encouraged to play at the famous French detective, Hercule Poirot.
Bejart Ballet Lausanne
DIRECTORATE Gil Roman
BALLET FILM Maurice Béjart
SCREENPLAY, CHOREOGRAPHY, STAGING Maurice Béjart for 60 dancers
WITH dancers of Bejart Ballet Lausanne and the students of the school Rudra
ORIGINAL MUSIC Hugues Le Bars and excerpts from classical ballets
COSTUMES Catherine Verneuil
SCENOGRAPHY Claude Tissier
ESTABLISHED in 1985 by the Ballet of the XXth century
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Video installation by William Forsythe
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PAVILION Populaire 19H
"In this program, unprecedented in France, video and other objects dance William Forsythe is the instigator - and sometimes inspired interpreter - shows a different approach to his work. For him, "choreographing and dancing are two different practices. The first channel using the desire to dance. But is it possible for the choreography to generate autonomous expressions of his subject, without the body?". This query finds few answers related to the technology of video or film. Visitors to the Pavilion and discover Popular Montpellier Collide-oscope, Bookmaking, Solo, Suspense and Antipodes I / II.
Not to mention the creation, Tribute, around the figures of Woody and Steina Vasulka she musician, engineer it will spark the creation of the Kitchen in New York, as emblematic of the cultural revolution in the 70s. For each image installations, Forsythe found few followers as the composer Thom Willems, or the cameraman Dietrich Kruger.
Finally and most importantly, it reveals Forsythe as ever, closer to the gesture. Before our eyes, it still Forsythe but also something else. Immediate future of dance. "
Philippe Noisette, a journalist and critic for the Montpellier Dance Festival
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Montpellier Dance is once again the ultimate gathering spot for all dance styles from all cultures. Some of the world’s greatest choreographers will be present, as well as companies from the far north to the far south of the choreographic globe, to stage innovative performances for dance aficionados as well as the
We will be previewing Montpellier Danse.10 with interviews with some of the leading lights.
