PRATICABLE
Alice Chauchat, Frédéric de Carlo, Frédéric Gies, Isabelle Schad, Odile Seitz
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PRESENTATION
PERFORMANCES:
- album
- the beloved
- the breast piece
- dance
- ohne worte
- sensation & imagination: a study
- the stage and myself
CALENDAR
PRESS
| ALBUM (Praticable) Frédéric Gies Live performance: Concept, choreography and dance Frédéric Gies Music Daniel Wang Light design Ruth Waldeyer Guests Christian Modersbach, Sampson Choir Frédéric de Carlo, Christian Modersbach, Sampson, and, in rotation, Alice Chauchat, Isabelle Schad and Odile Seitz Artistic assistance Alice Chauchat, Frédéric de Carlo DVD: Conception Frédéric Gies Video work Andrea Keiz Graphic design Milchof This project consists, on one hand, in applying to dance some modes of creation, production and distribution of pop-music, and, on the other hand, in a work on the communication of emotions with the dance medium. Copying the two forms of existence of a music album (the CD that one can buy |
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| and the live performance of the singer), it will take the shape of a DVD containing a certain number of dances, com-parable to the songs of a music album recorded in a studio, and the shape of a live performance. This live performance proposes to construct a dance piece as if it was the live concert of a singer. Talking with spectators of my piece "Dance (Praticable)", I have been surprised by their emotional reception of this work. Despite the rigor of its concept that consists in a destabilization of the notions of style and authorship in the choreographic field, some people received the piece in a very emotional way and I was thrilled to hear that some of them have been so close to tears. If I don't do without emotions in my work, and even play sometimes with them, it has never been my purpose to work directly on it, and make people cry. Therefore, I've thought that I had to find a way to work directly on and with emotions for my next piece. More precisely, I began to have the desire to work on the emotional communication between the performer and the spectator, as well as on the idea of empathy. I started to remember spectacles that particularly moved me. I remembered dance pieces, but thought a lot of concerts of singers or bands I have been too. And then I began to analyze the concert as a dipositif that creates a rather direct way of communicating between stage and audience. I've watched videos of concerts of singers that I appreciate, listened to what they say and how they behave between the songs, their silences, the changes of state and tone during the transitions from one song to another. I've also thought about the lyrics of their songs, about how they work emotionally. About how these texts that sound autobiographic become generic and produce a movement of empathy of the spectator toward the performer. I decided to make a dance piece that would take the shape of a live concert of an album of songs: a concert of dances. For this, I will choreograph dances that fit in a song format (from 2 to 8 minutes), as if I would be preparing a dance album, and then stage them as for a live concert. My own experiences of emotions and autobiographic elements will be the soil for my dance writing. The bodily experience of emotions will be the material for making joyful, sad and dark, passionate, angry, chaotic and confused, or peaceful dances. All these emotional states will not be played but awaken in the memory of the body. I will also talk with the audience between the dances, saying "hello", "thank you" and "goodbye", making jokes or telling the particular story of one dance, playing with the promise of excess. I will simply and directly acknowledge the moment of the performance as a particular moment of emotional communication. The dances will be either in silence or on music. Daniel Wang will compose the music. The methods for creating these dances will be also similar to ways for composing songs. The time frame of creation of the dances will depend on the rhythm of my experiences out of which I would like to make a dance, in a very spontaneous fashion. I will compose the equivalent of demos in my apartment, in my hotel room when I am on tour, or wherever I feel like composing one. Later on, I will rework these demos in a dance studio to give to the dances their final shape. I will compose as many dances as I need to build a coherent album. Following the example of a music album, I will also produce a DVD, equivalent to a CD in music. This DVD will contain all the dances that I will choreograph. The dances will be filmed in specific location, chosen in order to stress some of their emotional aspects - this way, giving to the spectator the possibility for another layer of perception and understanding. Thus, the dances become the material for a collection of video works, which constitute also the original produced version of these dances. As a CD, this DVD is meant to be sold. The aim of this DVD is to bring dance in other places than theaters, in this particular case, in the spectator's home. |
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