Hors sujet ou le bel ici
2007 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Pisani, Martine (France)
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
Hors sujet ou le bel ici
2007 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Pisani, Martine (France)
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
Hors sujet
"Hors sujet ou le bel ici"
sails between two worlds
the one which we recount and the one where we recount
by means of a series of varied motifs
which play on means of communication
as much by gesture as in words
turning the page, fog, Dutch text, diving, putting up the set, alone on the top of a mountain, floating, off-topic story, small three-hander structure, story reprise, big bang, dreamer's notebook, presentations, eyes open-eyes shut, time passing, utopia, the ground gives way, the new mountaineers, dreamer's notebook again, filling the space, whistling,...
Updating: March 2010
Pisani, Martine
Martine Pisani lives and works in Paris. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s and trained via classes and courses in contemporary dance. David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer and Odile Duboc were the teachers who made the greatest impact. She performed for several years with the Dunes group, Madeleine Chiche and Bernard Misrachi, with whom she also collaborated on artistic projects and in teaching. She founded her own company in 1992.
Nurtured by her successive encounters – David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer and also Odile Duboc, whom she willingly cites as the most influential – and by her involvement with the Dunes group in Marseilles, the self-taught dancer of the eighties became a choreographer in the early nineties, founding her own company. Piece after piece, she worked by ricochets and rebounds, usually insisting on forcing her way down a path without having sufficiently explored its potential at a previous stage. She soon adopted as a premise the idea that the simple fact of thinking is already an action. She is also consistent, always keeping hold of the idea that playfulness is necessary to set bodies and thought in motion. With this characteristic detachment, Martine Pisani looks for the space between. She tries to find the necessary space for meaning to remain open. She tries to find the right distance between being and playing. She shows that to know how to play, it is sometimes necessary to take oneself seriously.
Futher information
Updating: November 2010
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.).
Hors sujet
Artistic direction / Conception : Martine Pisani
Interpretation : Christophe Ives, Theo Kooijman, Eduard Mont de Palol
Text : Paul Claudel, Daniil Harms, Christophe Ives, Jack Kerouac, Theo Kooijman, Stéphane Mallarmé, Eduard Mont de Palol, Martine Pisani, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare
Lights : Alexandre Diaz, Olivier Schwal
Sound : Alexandre Diaz, Olivier Schwal
Other collaborations : collaborateur visuel André Guedes
Duration : 54 minutes
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