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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-sur-Yon) 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 and Les plus courts chemins, piece for five dancers. In July 2011, he creates A la gauche de l’espace, piece for two dancers inspired by cariatides at the festival of 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 (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 is currently writing a book on the relationships he perceives between art and dance over the last one-hundred years. |
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ALBAN RICHARD/ Alban Richard first encountered dance while studying music and literature, and found in it a horizon of unsuspected freedom and then on dedicated himself to the adventure of choreography. Outside the established curriculum, he forged his dancer tools. At twenty-one, he was selected by Karine Saporta to join her company at the National Centre for Choreography of Caen (1994-1998). Following this, he notably danced for Christine Gaigg, Odile Duboc (2002-2010), Olga de Soto (2006-2008) and Rosalind Crisp (2008-2009). In 1999, his performance piece Come out, a duo set to the eponymous music of Steve Reich, jettisoned the basis of his universe. That same year, he created Blood Roses, a piece for eight dancers set to Suites for Harpsichord by Purcell. He founded the ensemble l’Abrupt in 2000, bringing together loyal collaborators. At the invitation of the festival Mouvements d’Automne (Paris), he created -Häftling- (2000), a piece for eight dancers and three musicians, set to a musical composition by Aurélien Richard. In 2002, he choreographed and danced Sous surveillance, a solo with live commentary from the movement analyst Nathalie Schulman, in interaction with the music of Laurent Perrier and a lighting design by Valérie Sigward. Downfall, a work for the festival Faits d’Hiver (Paris) in 2004, brought him his first decisive recognition, confirmed by disperse, an abstract composition for eight dancers, created at the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in 2005. His signature style emerges from a process-based choreography, woven from several scores – for dance, for music, for lighting – that converge toward a conceptual and aesthetic unity. as far as, a quintet also created for the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis in 2007, marked a new phase. He gave the same sequence twelve times, varying the choreographic parameters each time and introducing bodily states of pathos inspired by figures of the cinema. The solo A Conspiracy (commission of the SACD for le Vif du Sujet 2008), and the triptych Trois études de séparation (Three Studies of parting, 2007-2009), composed of Lointain – Luisance – Lacis, intersected these different axes of research while combining an extremely precise and rhythmic choreographic writing with differentiated states of the body. In 2009, l’Ircam commissioned him to create With my limbs in the dark, a solo set to music by Paul Clift and interpreted live by the ensemble l’Instant donné. That same year, he received the prix du Jeune Talent chorégraphique (Young Choreographer’s Prize) by the SACD. In 2011, Christopher House from Toronto Dance Theater, commissioned him to create a piece for 6 male dancers from the TDT. His next piece (premiere on 24 June 2011 at Montpellier Danse festival), brings together six dancers and six musicians from the Percussions de Strasbourg set to the music of Iannis Xenakis, Pléiades. Alban Richard is also dedicated to teaching. Holding the State Certificate in dance education, he completed a teacher’s training untitled “La contagion insolite du mouvement” (the unusual contagion of movement), from 1999 to 2006 at the Théâtre de la Ville de Paris. Regularly invited to give workshops and masterclasses, he teaches notably at the Centre national de la danse, the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, at the RIDC, at the Ménagerie de Verre, and at Danse au Cœur… For 2011-2012, the ensemble l’Abrupt is in residence at Prisme (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) and La Scène nationale of Orléans. |
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JESUS SEVARI/ Jesus Sevari was born in Santiago, Chile in 1977. There, in the footsteps of Kurt Joos, she graduated from the University of Chile's Superior Conservatory of Dance while at the same time pursuing studies in literature, physics and psychology. She danced for El Banch (the National Ballet of Chile under choreographer Ernst Uthoff) then struck out for several independent companies in Chile: La Septima Compania Luis Eduardo Araneda, La Vitrina Nelson Avilés, Mariela Cerda Compania N.N, Marcela Inostroza. She was a founding member of Lluvia Bajo Luna along with Natalia Sabat, Vivian Romo and Paula Sacur. In 1998, she decided to come to France where she studied under Peter Goss and trained at the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimodrama. Master classes with Carolyn Carlson, Dominique Mercy, Benoît Lachambre, Daniel Larrieu, Dominique Duzinsky, Shirley Center and Wayne Byars rounded out her training. She took classes with the Tanztheater/Pina Bausch at the Théâtre de la Ville, in Wuppertal and Monaco, and with the Maguy Marin Company at the National Choreographic Centre of Rillieux-la-Pape. She has danced for several choreographers: Paco Decina, Alban Richard, Kataline Patkaï, Geisha Fontaine and Pierre Cottreau. In 2003, Sevari founded the company Absolutamente. The sensitive virtuosity of her work is built on an exploration of time and origins, in tension with the history of dance. She works with Nathalie Schulmann, an expert in the functional analysis of dance movement, in order to develop a choreography linked to sphere dynamics, inspired by Laban's icosahedron. To date, she has created eight works: the solo Necesito Ku (2003), the trilogy Fantasy Brain created at Mains d'Oeuvres over the span of three years: Initiation in collaboration with Marcelo Sepulveda (2004), Globalisation in collaboration with Paula Sacur (2005), and Como salir a buscar una estrella con las dos manos ocupadas (2007). Absolutamente enjoyed a two-year residency at the Hector Berlioz Conservatory in Pavillons-sous-Bois from 2007-2009. In 2008, the company was welcomed at the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson for its research on time. In 2010, Jesus Sevari created Childe, essai chorégraphique sur une symphonie de Berlioz (Théâtre de la Condition de Soie, Festival d'Avignon) and Estrella, performance pour 40 escargots (June Events Festival and Festival Artdanthé). In 2011, she created Exagium, an in-situ performance in a sphere. In 2012, Jesus Sevari created Androcéphale, essai chorégraphique sur une partition de Satie (Festival Faits d'Hiver) while in residency at the Biennale de Danse Val de Marne and at Micadanses. Absolutamente has worked with educators at the Collège Michelet since 2005 as part of an awareness-raising programme. In this context, in 2010, she revived a work for 14 girls entitled GIRLS with the backing of the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-St-Denis. Jesus Sevari regularly gives workshops in elementary and middle schools, conservatories and the Femmes de Fresnes prison. |
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