Daniel Larrieu’s Cold Song proposes a perforated and performed solo reading of these years of silence which the “AIDS years”, as they  are commonly referred to, were for him. Larrieu considers himself as a survivor of the last “live in secret, live happy” generation in the  midst of the storm of daily news and personal upheavals connected to the disappearance of loved ones; while showing great respect for the discretion which kept art and activism separate, the choreographer is animated by a sense of urgency to put the polymorphous violence of that era in perspective, and a necessity to transmit, through literary writing, a flow of emotions and a flux of interrogations. “The time has come to tell the story of this “darkening” of our lives”. As in an enigmatic and cathartic ritual, the artist interrogates from within the blanks of silence, the taboos, the unshared experiences and extreme notions of living with and dying with the disease, in a piece that brings together the dead and the living.

Source: programme of the CND

A key figure of French contemporary dance, appointed as director of the National Choreography Centre (CCN) of Tours in 1994, he has pursued his creative work with the Astrakan Company since 2004. He has multiplied his choreographic experiences with, in particular, “Marche, danses de verdure” (2004), “Never Mind” (2006) and “Lux” (2010). In 2010, he danced on drifting ice floes in Greenland and created “Ice Dream, installation plastique”. In 2011, he created “Big Little B” and “En Piste” with Pascale Houbin and Dominique Boivin. He became the associate artist at the Manège in Reims and at the Échangeur in Fère-en-Tardenois. At the beginning of 2012 at the Athénée Theatre, hand-in-hand with Gloria Paris, he created “Divine”, a theatrical variation choreographed from “Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs” (Our Lady of the Flowers) by Jean Genet.

Source : Daniel Larrieu

Further information : Daniel Larrieu Website

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.).