Mourner's bench
Choreographer(s) : Carlès, James (France) Beatty, Talley (United States)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , Compagnie James Carlès Danse & Co - Œuvres majeures du patrimoine chorégraphique ( Danses noires, danses modernes, danses contemporaines, danses urbaines, etc...)
Video producer : Beatty, Talley
Mourner's bench
Choreographer(s) : Carlès, James (France) Beatty, Talley (United States)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , Compagnie James Carlès Danse & Co - Œuvres majeures du patrimoine chorégraphique ( Danses noires, danses modernes, danses contemporaines, danses urbaines, etc...)
Video producer : Beatty, Talley
Mourner's bench
This fight spiritual and strengthened between a dancer and a bench is inspired by the universe of the novelist Howard Fast and is alluded to the tragic influence of the Ku Klux Klan on a rural multiracial community of the South of the United States, afet the civil war. The interpreter affirms himself through a gestural language highly stylized against the topics of oppression and transcendence; “Sitted on the mourner' S bench”, he reports the decline, the horror and oppression undergone by the black community.
CREDITS
Creation in 1947 section of the part “Southern Landscape”
Choreographer: Talley Beatty
Frontier runners: Joan Myers Brown - Cie Philadanco, Philadelphia the USA
Duration: 6 mn
Interpret: Solo
Music: “There has balm in Gilead” song traditional negro spiritual
Carlès, James
James Carles is a choreographer, researcher and lecturer. He received initial training in dance and music of Africa and its Diaspora and then trained with the great names of modern dance in New York and London mainly. Since 1992, he hired an artistic and analytical approach that explores the “places junctions” between the dances, rhythms and philosophies of Africa and its Diaspora with technical and western thoughts frames. To date, his company’s directory contains more than fifty pieces of his own creation and authors like Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Asadata Dafora, Geraldine Armstrong, Rick Odums, Wayne Barbaste, Carolyn Carlson, Robyn Orlin, etc.
Dancer soloist and outstanding performer, James Carles was performer and artistic collaborator for not only numerous “all music” ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, through jazz; but also choreographers such as Carolyn Carlson, Robyn Orlin, Rui Horta, Myriam Naisy, etc.
Artist associated with Astrada- Jazz In Marciac 2012-2014, research associate in the laboratory of the University LLA Créatis Jean Jaures Toulouse, James Carles is particularly invests in heritage projects for diversity and diffusion of choreographic culture. He is also founder and artistic director of the festival “Dances and Black Continents”.
Beatty, Talley
Talley Beatty (1918-1995), of Chicago became a principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham Company at age 16. After touring with the Dunham Company for five years and appearing in film and Broadway shows such as Cabin in the Sky, Pins and Needles, and Blue Holiday, Mr. Beatty formed his own company and toured throughout Europe, the US and Canada. As part of his choreographing for Broadway, he was nominated for a 1977 Tony Award as Best Choreographer for Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God. Dance companies around the world have mounted his ballets, including Dance Theatre of Harlem, Bat-Sheva Company, Koln Opera Ballet Company, Boston Ballet, Stockholm Dance Theatre and Ballet Hispanico.
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