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A bras le corps (1)

À bras le corps is the first duet created and performed by Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas. It represents the origin of the desire to set dance among the audience, rather than in front of them—a desire which will be instrumental in later pieces such as Aatt enen tionon and herses (une lente introduction). The dancing body is visible from different angles, and writing is conceptualized in a multidirectional space. This duet asserts the physicality of male bodies in close contact. In a rather intimate setting, playing on the proximity of the dancing bodies, the dance is explosive and captivating, demanding that the spectator find the necessary distance to take in the work. From the inception of the project, Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas hoped that this physicality would be of long duration. How is it possible that this duet could survive over the years, evolve and mature along with the aging bodies, and generate new artistic projects? This is what the two selected extracts intend to demonstrate by focusing on the same moment in the performance—one filmed in 1999 at the Archa Theatre in Prague, the other ten years later, on the occasion of the Preview of the Museum of Dance in Rennes. How do the bodies take charge of the writing of this duet across time and space? How is choreographic writing stabilized even while incorporating an impermanent, sensitive, and necessarily evolving dimension?

Source : Site de Boris Charmatz


En savoir plus :

http://www.borischarmatz.org/

Charmatz, Boris

Born on January 3rd 1973, in Chambéry, France

Dancer, choreographer, and director of  Terrain, Boris Charmatz subjects dance to formal constraints which  redraw the field of possibilities. The stage is a notepad where to draft  concentrated, organic concepts in order to observe the chemical  reactions, intensities, and tensions engendered by their encounter.

During 2009 - 2018 he is the director of Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne.
He is the author of a series of landmark shows, from Aatt enen tionon (1996) to 10000 gestes  (2017), in addition to his activity as a performer and improviser (in  collaboration with Médéric Collignon, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and  Tino Sehgal).
As an associate artist of the 2011 edition of the Avignon Theatre Festival, Boris Charmatz created enfant.  Performed at the Cour d’Honneur at the Palais des Papes, the piece  involved 26 children and 9 adult dancers. It was restaged at the  Volksbühne in 2018 with a group of Berlin children. Invited to the MoMA  in 2013, Boris Charmatz staged Musée de la danse: Three Collective Gestures,  a three-part program performed at the museum over the course of three  weeks. Following an invitation in 2012, Boris Charmatz was once again  hosted by Tate Modern in London in 2015, where he presented If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse? The show included alternate versions of the choreographic projects À bras-le-corps; Levée des conflits; manger; Roman Photo; expo zéro; and 20 Dancers for the XX Century. That same year, Boris Charmatz opened the dance season at the National Opera in Paris with 20 Dancers for the XX Century,  and invited 20 dancers from the Ballet to perform twentieth-century  solo parts in public spaces at the Palais Garnier. In May 2015 he  premieres Fous de danse, an invitation to live dance in all its  forms from noon until midnight. Further editions of this choreographic  assembly bringing together professional dancers and amateurs, take place  in Rennes in 2016 and 2018; Brest, Berlin and Paris (Festival  d’Automne) follow in 2017.
During 2017-2018 Boris Charmatz is associate artiste of Volksbühne Berlin where he presents danse de nuit  (2016), 10000 gestes (2017), A Dancer’s Day  (2017) and enfant (2018).

End of 2018 Boris Charmatz leaves Musée de la danse / Centre  chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne and for the occasion  creates La Ruée at Théâtre National de Bretagne, a collective performance inspired by the book Histoire mondiale de la France,  written under the direction of Patrick Boucheron.
In January 2019 he launches Terrain, association established in the  Region Hauts-de-France and in partnership with the phénix, scène  nationale of Valenciennes, Opéra de Lille and Maison de la Culture  d’Amiens. Boris Charmatz is also associate artist of Charleroi danse  (Belgium) for three years (2018-2021).
In the summer of 2019 Zürcher Theater Spektakel gives Boris Charmatz carte blanche to take over the festival site on the lake. terrain | Boris Charmatz : Un essai à ciel ouvert. Ein Tanzgrund für Zürich   becomes the first test of his project Terrain : a green choreographic  site without roof and walls, an architecture of bodies during three  weeks, every day and under the open sky, including public warm-ups,  workshops for children, amateur and professional dancers, performances  and a symposium.
In 2020, the Festival d’Automne à Paris proposes the Portrait Boris Charmatz with works from his repertoire and new projects : La Ruée  (2018), (sans titre)  (2000) by Tino Sehgal, La Fabrique (2020), Aatt enen tionon (1996), 20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle et plus encore  (2012, 2020), boléro 2 (1996) & étrangler le temps (2009) and 10000 gestes (2017). In this framework he creates La Ronde   for the closing event of Grand Palais, collective performance of 12  hours and subject of a film and a documentary for France Télévisions.
In June 21, he orchestrates the groupe performance Happening Tempête for the opening of Grand Palais Éphémère. In July, he opens the Manchester International Festival with Sea Change,  a dance piece with 150 amateurs and professional dancers. In November  he creates and interprets the entirely whistled solo SOMNOLE.
In September 2022, Boris Charmatz will be the new director of  Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, to launch, with Terrain, a new  project between France and Germany. Since August 2022, Boris Charmatz is  the new director of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, to launch, with  Terrain, a new project between France and Germany. In September 2023, he  creates with Tanztheater Wuppertal Ensemble his new piece Liberté Cathédrale.

Charmatz is the author of several books, including Entretenir: à propos d’une danse contemporaine (Centre national de la danse / Les presses du reel, 2003), co-authored with Isabelle Launay; “Je suis une école” (Editions les Prairies Ordinaires, 2009), a work that retraces the adventure with Bocal; and Emails 2009–2010  (Les presses du réel, in partnership with the Musée de danse, 2013),  co-authored with Jérôme Bel. In 2017, MoMa New York as part of its  series Modern Dance, publishes the monography Boris Charmatz,  directed by Janevski and with contributions by Gilles Amalvi, Bojana  Cvejić, Tim Etchells, Adrian Heathfield, Catherine Wood...
His projects initiate various cinematographic realisations, among them Les Disparates  (2000), directed by César Vayssié ; Horace-Bénédict (2001), by Dimitri Chamblas et Aldo Lee ; Une lente introduction (2007) by Boris Charmatz et Aldo Lee ; Levée (2014) by Boris Charmatz et César Vayssié ; Daytime Movements (2016), by Boris Charmatz et Aernout Mik ; TANZGRUND (2021), by César Vayssié ; étrangler le temps (2021) by Boris Charmatz and Aldo Lee.


Source and more information: https://www.borischarmatz.org/

Chamblas, Dimitri

Graduate of the  National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon (CNSMD), Dimitri Chamblas  participated in the creation of Bernard Glandier's Trails before being  hired as a permanent dancer by Régine Chopinot in 1993. From 1997, he  committed himself alongside Mathilde Monnier at the CCN of Montpellier and interprets the duet Tout Contre by Emmanuelle Huynh.


In  the early 2000s, he developed a work in the audiovisual field and  realized successively Horace-Benedict (in collaboration with Aldo Lee),  The Key of Places and In our places. In 2002, he began working as a first assistant director in the advertising industry. He collaborates among others with Tranh Anh Hung, Jacques Audiard, César Vayssié and the Zoo. Since 2005, he is associate producer of Same Production and accompanies the development of young directors.


Source : Site de Boris Charmatz


En savoir plus :

http://www.borischarmatz.org

Musée de la danse

At the bounds of the museum, place of conservation, dance, art of  movement, and choreographic center, place of production and residence, le Musée de la danse is a space to think, practice and expand the boundaries of the dance. If it's registered in Rennes, it's also a nomadic idea. Directed by the choreographer Boris Charmatz, this laboratory-institution explores the possibilities of crossing between exhibition, performative  gesture and articulation of a speech. Workshops, debates, shows, residencies of artists and researchers; offbeat proposals and fantasy collections are born directly from a reflection on what could be this playful and hybrid museum.


The  CCN of Rennes and Brittany, renamed the Museum of Dance by Boris  Charmatz, was directed by Gigi Caciuleanu until 1993, by Catherine  Diverrès and Bernardo Montet until 1996, then by Catherine Diverrès  alone until 2008. Since 2009, Boris Charmatz ensures his direction. From January 2019, the collective FAIR[E] will take over. The  collective is composed of Bouside Aït-Atmane, Iffra Dia, Johanna Faye, Céline Gallet, Linda Hayford, Saïdo Lehlouh, Marion Poupinet and Ousmane Sy.


The  Museum of Dance / National Choreographic Center of Rennes and Brittany  is an association subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and  Communication (DRAC Bretagne), the City of Rennes, the Regional Council  of Brittany and the County Council of Ille et-Vilaine.
The Dance Museum is part of the Association of National Choreographic Centers.


More information : www.museedeladanse.org

A bras le corps

Choreography : Boris Charmatz, Dimitri Chamblas

Interpretation : Boris Charmatz, Dimitri Chamblas

Additionnal music : Paganini - Caprices n°1, 10 et 16

Lights : Renaud Lapperousaz

Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Association edna, Musée de la danse

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Fatima Rojas, CCNRB Rennes, Musée de la danse

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