Abou Lagraa's dance
2014 - Director : Riolon, Luc
Choreographer(s) : Lagraa, Abou (France)
Present in collection(s): Cie La Baraka / La Chapelle - Abou Lagraa & Nawal AĆÆt Benalla
Video producer : 24 images ; France 2 ; Mezzo
Abou Lagraa's dance
2014 - Director : Riolon, Luc
Choreographer(s) : Lagraa, Abou (France)
Present in collection(s): Cie La Baraka / La Chapelle - Abou Lagraa & Nawal AĆÆt Benalla
Video producer : 24 images ; France 2 ; Mezzo
Danse d'Abou Lagraa (La)
This documentary analyzes the work of Abou Lagraa, in the fault of the show Allegoria Stanza and the interviews of the choreographer and the dancers.
Source : Compagnie La Baraka
En savoir plus : www.aboulagraa.fr
Allegoria Stanza
Allegoria Stanza unfolds like an image, a poetic phrase, a wave which endlessly renews itself.
From the awakening of the senses to the state of contemplation which harmony achieves between humans and nature, passing through the breaker of stormy anger, Abou Lagraa attemps to give body to a nuanced plenitude, which images, between sea and sky.
We first encounter the sea: our senses awaken. The sky becomes heavy, a storm lifts, the rain arrives linking sea and sky.
The sky gradually calms; it gives body to plenitude, to the opening, to the horizon and to hope. It acquires the state of reflection, of a mirror that leaves man facing himself. And man's anger, symbolically linked to that of the elements, becomes contemplation, open-mindedness.
Source : Compagnie La Baraka
En savoir plus : www.aboulagraa.fr
Lagraa, Abou
Born in Annonay, Abou Lagraa began dancing at the age of 16 before entering the Conservatoire National SupƩrieur de Musique et de Danse, Lyon. He began his career as a dancer at the S.O.A.P. Dance Theatre, Frankfurt with Rui Horta and became his assistant on a project at the Calouste Gulbenkian Centre, Lisbon. He was soon noticed and went on to work with Robert Poole, Denis Plassard and Lionel Hoche. His qualities as a performer have been rewarded twice: in 1998 by the 2nd Prize for performance at the Paris International Dance Competition, then in 2009 by the prize for Best Male Dancer, awarded by the International Movimentos Dance Prize. In 1997 he founded his own company, La Baraka.
Once again, recognition came quickly; numerous French venues programmed the young choreographer and he received proposals for collaboration. As a result, after 4 years as an associated artist at Bonlieu ScĆØne Nationale in Annecy, since 2009 Abou Lagraa and his company have been hosted in production residency at GĆ©meaux ScĆØne Nationale, Sceaux. The fame of the company spread rapidly beyond France's borders and tours followed one after the other, throughout Europe and also in the United States, Algeria, Tunisia and Indonesiaā¦ Alongside his work with the company, Abou Lagraa is regularly in demand by large organisations.
In 2001 he devised Fly, Fly for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. This piece later was subsequently added to the repertoire of the ABC Dance Company of St Pƶlten in Austria.
In 2003 he devised a work for the second-year students of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, Angers, then in 2007 for the pupils of the Frankfurt Hochschule and the pupils of the Centre MƩditerranƩen de Danse Contemporaine, Tunis.
In 2006 his work entered the repertoire of the Paris OpĆ©ra Ballet with Le Souffle du Temps, a piece for 21 dancers, including 3 Ć©toiles (Marie-AgnĆØs Gillot, Manuel Legris, Wilfried Romoli). Then, in 2008, he composed Everyone's One at the invitation of Ballet Memphis (USA).
Since 2009, in association with the Algerian Ministry of Culture and th Algerian Agency for the Cultural Brilliance, he works, with Nawal AĆÆt Benalla-Lagraa, in the elaboration of a āMediterranean Cultural Bridge", the project of French-Algerian cooperation for the development of the dance and the artistic exchanges which will contain a program of Training and creation. In this frame, he sees confiding for July, 2009, the choreography of Closing ceremony of the 2nd Pan-African Festival of Algiers. In 2010, he creates the Ballet Contemporain d'Alger, under the Nawal AĆÆt Benalla-Lagraa's educational responsibility, with a first piece NYA. The success of which ends in several national and international tours.
This piece was to be distinguished in 2011 when it was awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique as āBest Choreography of the Yearā.
In 2016, he becomes the Ā« Dream up Ā» ambassador, an international arts-based education programme set up by the BNP Paribas foundation. This programme will help some 30,000 underprivileged or disabled children and teenagers to develop and find fulfilment by practising an artistic or creative activity.
In 2016, he becomes āChevalier des arts et des lettresā nominated by the French ministry of culture.
Source : Cie La Baraka
More information : https://www.aboulagraa.fr/
Riolon, Luc
After studies of mathematics preparatory class and medecine studies, Luc Riolon begins to make films within the framework of his Faculty of Medicine, then met the famous choreographers of the 80s (Maguy Marin, Mark Tompkins, Josef Nadj, Daniel Larrieu Daniel, Odile Duboc, Josette Baiz, Angelin Prljocaj, etc.) with whom he shoots numerous films (re-creation for the camera, the illegal securements). In the 80s with the American choreographer Mark Tompkins he introduces the video on the stage, broadcasting live on big screens the images which he shoots with his camera by being on the stage with the dancers, mixing live images and pre-recorded images. With Daniel Larrieu he participates in the creation of the famous show WATERPROOF, the contemporary choreography which takes place in a swimming pool, by filming live) the dancers dancing in the water and mixing the live images with pre-recorded underwater images. This choreography has been shown in many countries (USA, Canada, Spain, Englandā¦)
Then he collaborates during 10 years with the famous french TV producer Eve Ruggieri for her programs" Musics in the heart ". He shoots with her of numerous documentaries about classical music, opera singers and dance. From 1999 he directs documentaries of scientific popularization, by following researchers attached to the resolution of a particular ecologic enigma. These two artistic and scientific domains which can seem separated are nevertheless, for Luc Riolon, connected by the same approach : the deep desire to understand the world, by the art or by the scientific research, and to restore it to the largest number. Among his recent scientific documentaries, we can quote for example " The Enigma of the Black Caiman ", Living and dying in the swamp " or " The Nile delta: The end of the miracle ". āChernobyl, a natural history ? ā These documentaries of scientific popularization recently have been awarded in international festivals.
Source: Vimeo
La danse d'Abou Lagraa
Choreography : Abou Lagraa
Interpretation : SĆ©verine Allarousse, FrĆ©dĆ©ric Boisset, Farid Boukhouch, SaĆ¼l Dovin, David Drouard, Sandrine Maisonneuve, Marion Mangin, LeĆÆla Pasquier, AurĆ©lia Picot, Bernard Wayack Pambe
Original music : Eric AldƩa, Fayrouz
Video conception : Charles Picq, images d'Ć©clair de Alex Hermant
Production / Coproduction of the video work : 24 images, France 2, Mezzo
Duration : 60'
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