How do we bring the living world into the world of dance? How do we welcome nature into human bodies?
TicketsDuration
75 minutes
20 Sep
19:00
21 Sep
16:00
22 Sep
16:00
Through choreographies from the history of Western dance, on Confidencen's unique 18th-century stage, choreographer Jérôme Bel and art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual explore contradictions - where nature and man seem to be far apart.
From Isadora Duncans Water Study, by Pina Bausch Carnation Line, to Sergiu Matis The Siberian crane Bel and Zhong Mengual explore the paradox of tackling the seemingly impossible challenge in these works - becoming a body other than one's own: a plant, water, an animal or a natural element.
The choreographies selected by Bel and Zhong Mengual are also given a new light in today's context and reality; namely the impending ecological crisis where environmental disasters and climate change are looming. I Non-Human Dances there is a strong sense of the need to allow the audience to reconnect with the living and organic world, thereby enhancing our sensitivity to it - and reclaiming its central place in our shared world.
The work premiered in autumn 2023 at the Louvre in Paris.
R.B. Jérôme Bel receives the help of Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Île-de-France - Ministry of Culture.
Jérome Bel is associated artist to Le Quartz - scène nationale de Brest, Centre national de la danse (Pantin) and Comédie de Caen CDN de Normandie
For ecological reasons, R.B. Jérôme Bel company doesn't travel by plane anymore.
www.jeromebel.fr
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About Jérôme Bel and Estelle Zhong Mengual
French choreographer Jérôme Bel is one of the great choreographers of our time. His conceptual dance practice has transformed modern dance, theatre and contemporary art. His innovative and daring performances - presented in a simple and clean way - have challenged the very definition of convention and avant-garde.
Essentially, all his works explore the meaning of a performance but also what it means to be human.
Estelle Zhong Mengual is an art historian and author. She teaches in the Master of Experimentation in Art and Politics (SPEAP), at Sciences Po Paris.
Her research focuses on the relationship that art, both past and present, has with the living world. In particular, she is working to develop a kind of environmental history of art history, which proposes a new regime of attention to the representation of the living world in art. She is aided by natural science and environmental humanism as research methods.
Choreographies:
Pina Baush Carnation line
Music: West End Blues composed by Joseph Oliver, performed by Louis Armstrong. Extract from the work: The Carnation (Les oeillets) (1982),
Choreography and stage directions: Pina Bausch
Stage design: Peter Pabst, Costume: Marion Cito, Dramaturgy: Raimund Hoghe, Co-operation: Matthias Burkert, Hans Pop, music: Jones, Lehar, Oliver, Tauber, Tucker and others. Copyights : Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt, for Pina Bausch Foundation, Wuppertal
Gaspard Charon The entrance of the sun
Isadora Duncan Water study
Music: Frantz Schubert
Loïe Fuller
Music: Camille Saint Saens
Lev Ivanov and Marius Petitpa
Xavier Le Roy The lions' vocabulary
Mr Sergiu Matis The Siberian crane. Extract of the piece: Extinction room (Hopeless.) Concept and choreography: Sergiu Matis, Sound composition: Antye Greie-Ripatti, Text: Philip Ingman
With: Gaspard Charon, Chiara Gallerani, Elisabeth Schwartz, Lisa Vilret, Stéphanie Aflalo
Non-Human Dances by Jérôme Bel and Estelle Zhong Mengual presented in co-operation with Confidences.
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Before each performance we offer an introduction. The conversation will be held by Madeleine Onne, CEO and artistic director of Confidencen and a staff member from Dansens Hus.
20/9: Johannes Öhman, artistic director. 21/9: Andrea Redmer, project manager. 22/9: Maria Härenstam, producer.
Introductions start 30 minutes before the start of the performance.
20/9: 18:30-18:45
21/9 & 22/9: 15:30-15:45
choreographer
Jérôme Bel
Concept
Jérôme Bel and Estelle Zhong Mengual
Assistant
Chiara Gallerani
Text by
Jérôme Bel, Estelle Zhong Mengual and excerpts from Baptiste Morizot, Andrea Olga Mantovani, S'enforester, Paris, Éditions d'une Rive à l'Autre, 2022, p. 28
Choreographies
Pina Baush, Gaspard Charon, Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, Lev Ivanov and Marius Petitpa, Xavier Le Roy, Sergiu Matis
Med
Gaspard Charon, Chiara Gallerani, Elisabeth Schwartz, Lisa Vilret, Stéphanie Aflalo
Costume
The dancers
Technical management
Maxime Kurvers
Executive management and artistic eye
Rebecca Lasselin
Manager
Sandro Grando
Production
R.B. Jérôme Bel
Co-production
Festival d'Automne à Paris, Musée du Louvre (Paris), Centre national de la danse, Fonds de dotation du Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest, Maison de la danse - Lyon, Pôle européen de création, R.B. Jérôme Bel (Paris) with the help of the Ménagerie de Verre (Paris) which has provided the studio.
Thanks to
Sébastien Allard, Cédric Andrieux and Raphaelle Delaunay/CNSMDP, Carolin Brandl/Choreographing Politic at the Bode-Museum (Berlin), Salomon Bausch, Ismaël Dia and Annette Reschke/Pina Bausch Foundation, Ana Janevski/MoMA, Laetitia Dosch, Valérie Dréville, Claire Le Gouic, Baptiste Morizot, Madeline Ritter