Confit de canard - Ann Crosset
2007 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Orlin, Robyn (South Africa)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Confit de canard - Ann Crosset
2007 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Orlin, Robyn (South Africa)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Confit de canard
[Duck confit]
A recipe by : Robyn Orlin
Method : Take dancers from different countries and different contexts, some met a long time ago, others tracked down recently. Mix together and you will have the closing show of Robyn Orlin's three-year residency at the Centre national de la danse, Pantin (2004 to 2007). Enjoy!
Ingredients :
- Wilfried Romoli (étoile), and Yann Bridard (principal dancer) of the Paris Opera Ballet
- Ann Masina, South African opera singer- Rodney Buyeye and Prince Mngomezulu, Zulu dancers, who, at Robyn Orlin's invitation, led workshops for 16 to 19 year-old students in 2006.
- Lemi Fudumele, Bokang Nene, Thato Qofela, Nkosana Sangweni, dancers from the South African company Via Katlehong for whom Robyn Orlin created the piece "Still life homeless heaven and urban wounds...(even bananas have bones)"
- Daniela Alvarez Lopez, Magdalena Bahamondes, Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe, Rafael Linares, David Tretiakoff, dancers who took part in the teacher training course taught by Robyn Orlin in May 2006 at the Centre national de la danse
- Aude Lachaise, performer of Robyn Orlin's work since the inauguration of the CND
- Gerard Bester, partner in Robyn's creations since 1990
- M. Zaza, who participated in the show "Daddy…" with his oriental dance company in October 2006 at the CND
- Ann Crosset, American performance artist, whose fiery presence enlivened the construction site of the CND in October 2003, and the inauguration in June 2004.
Updating: December 2010
Orlin, Robyn
Robyn Orlin was born in 1955 in Johannesburg and obtained bursaries to study in London (London Contemporary Dance School) and then in Chicago (School of Art Institute).
Since her first performance in Johannesburg in 1980, she has attempted to redefine choreography and the art of theatre in her country and has become one of the most committed anti-apartheid choreographers. She starts from the principle that “dance is political”, and in her pieces she examines the social and cultural situation in South Africa: its influences, its history, its rifts and its disintegration. The choreography then creates “an iconoclastic dance which puts its foot in it”, a dance-chronicle of today's South African society, skilfully handling irony and derision; a dance that shamelessly stirs up references and identities, blending traditional popular culture with the radical avant-garde, a dance that is capable of breaking down the artist-audience barrier by putting the audience at the centre of the event.
Robyn Orlin came to France for the first time in April 2000 at the invitation of La Filature Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, with “Daddy, I've seen this piece six times before...”
She achieved immediate recognition: Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Montpellier Dance Festival, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, followed by tours all over the world.
In 2004, Robyn Orlin took part in the inauguration of the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin and composed a solo for Sophiatou Kossoko as part of “Vif du Sujet”.
In 2005 she created “When I take off my skin and touch the sky with my nose, only then I can see little voices amuse themselves...”, a piece with 6 singers from the South African Opera, then, during the summer, “Hey dude... i have talent... i'm just waiting for god...,” a solo for the dancer-choreographer Vera Mantero.
From September 2005 Robyn Orlin was in residency for two years at the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin. In April 2007 her “L'Allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato” was premièred at the Paris National Opera.
Source :
Digital resource - Médiathèque du Centre national de la danse
http://mediatheque.cnd.fr/spip.php?page=mediatheque-numerique-ressource&id=PHO00003887
More information : robynorlin.com
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Confit de canard
Choreography : Robyn Orlin
Interpretation : Ann Crosset, Ann Masina (chanteurse lyrique), Gerard Bester, Wilfried Romoli, Yann Bridard, Rodney Buyeye, Prince Mngomezulu, Lemi Fudumele, Bokang Nene, Thato Qofela, Nkosana Sangweni, Daniela Alvarez Lopez, Magdalena Bahamondes, Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe, Rafael Linares, David Tretiakoff, Aude Lachaise, M. Zaza
Duration : 98 minutes
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