The ineffable is that which cannot be  expressed in words. On stage, various forms of sacred art are combined  through music and dance in order to make manifest what we often forget  to look at, our deep and immortal nature, which cannot be described by  words. For me, the sacred is everything that crosses time without taking  on any wrinkles, that which surpasses understanding, that which frees  us from suffering and raises us above our human condition.

To reach the peaceful and eternal  silence that lies within all forms of life is the highest and most  difficult quest, but it is also and above all the most beautiful. Thus,  contrary to what one might think, this personal path of inner  realisation cannot be a path without obstacles. This aspiration is so  precious and so deep that it is easy to go astray while thinking we are  on the right path, and it is impossible to approach this purity of the  soul without first deeply facing everything that keeps it away. Thus,  evoking spiritual pride, that spirit which claims to hold the ultimate  truth without having totally purified itself of all traces of ego, is  one of the essential points of this creation because it is ultimately  the most dangerous trap.

Choreographically, I took great pleasure  in feeding my dance with numerous forms of bodily expression from  religious rites and in particular mudras, this “yoga of the hands”  carrying a language adorned with symbols, by merging it with my  favourite dance: hip hop dance and in particular the “tutting”  technique. As I am also a trained musician, I compose and play part of  the music live in order to be one with the sound while inviting the  magic of the present moment with its surprises and fragility. In  addition to broadcasting a selection of musical works from different  spiritual traditions, my intention is to show that it is also possible  to detect this relationship to the sacred in unexpected registers such  as wadaiko (traditional Japanese percussion) or electro. The repertoire  of sacred music being an extremely vast and rich field of creativity, my  selection obviously reflects only a tiny part of all that is possible  to hear. However, I have oriented my research by trying as much as  possible to listen with my heart and not with my mind. Thus, it is my  firm belief that each of the carefully selected pieces of music for this  creation was written by a spirit aspiring to something greater than  simply satisfying its worldly desires. Although they differ in form, the  substance and power of the music are not far apart, as they reflect one  and the same thing: our immortal essence. 

Finally, the meaning that I have given  to my life and that I wish to share here lies in learning to control  one’s own body and mind, the two precious instruments of our  accomplishment.

Jann Gallois

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Self-taught by nature, Jann Gallois entered in the dance world in 2004 through hip hop doors. Very soon she was known by many choreographers such as Sebastien Lefrançois, Sylvain Groud, Angelin Preljocaj, Sebastien Ramirez, Kaori Ito, and collaborated with each of them for a series of creations from 2008 till 2014.

In 2012 after a strong professional experience as a performer, Jann decided to found her own company, Cie BurnOut, and to write her first own solo piece, « P=mg » for which she was 9 times awarded by national and international prizes, such as Paris Young Talent Prize and Beaumarchais-SACD Prize in Paris, Solo-Tanz Theater Prize in Stuttgart, Masdanza Prize in Canary Islands, Machol Shalem Prize in Jerusalem, and Gdansk solo dance contest Prize in Poland.

In 2015, Jann Gallois confirmed her artistic signature, combining hip hop and contemporary dance, by creating once again a solo-piece called « Diagnostic F20.9 », for which she was nammed “Dance Bearer of Hope” of the year by the german newspaper Tanz. In 2016, she created « Compact » a duet piece with her main partner Rafael Smadja.

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Antoine  Billet creates live performance recordings with a very particular  attention to the intention of the artists with whom he collaborates.  Each proposal calls for a unique way of filming, imagined and discussed  with the creators. 

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Passionate  about contemporary dance, he has collaborated with Peeping Tom at the  Théâtre de Ville in Paris, Gerard & Kelly at the Villa Savoye during  the Festival d'Automne à Paris, Jann Gallois at the Théâtre National de  Chaillot, Gaëlle Bourges at the Quai in Angers. In theater, he works  with TGStan at the CNSAD, Lorraine de Sagazan at the MC93, Thomas  Quillardet at the Festival d'Automne, Mathilde Delahaye at the Espace  des Arts de Chalon-sur-Saône. As for music, he directed recordings for  Nosfell at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale or Lucie Antunes at  104.

Born in  1981, he grew up in Brittany where he had the chance to discover live  performances at the Passerelle, Scène Nationale de Saint Brieuc, then a  certain cinema at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes. After  training in cultural management at Sciences Po Strasbourg, he set up  theater productions and a film festival in Central Asia. Upon his return  to France, he pursued his passion for images and live performances by  working for various international live performance companies, while  training in film direction at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel and  at Louis Lumière. This double path leads him to the realization of live  performance recordings, which he develops with a refined eye of  assiduous spectator. 

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Founded in 2012, Cie BurnOut is a french dance company based in Paris. Only three years after its creation, the company got the support of the French Ministery of the Culture DRAC Ile-de-France in 2015 for the productions of Diagnostic F20,9 and in 2016 for the production of Compact. The company is also supported by ARCADI for the programming of the piece Diagnostic F20.9 in the region of Paris.
Since february 2015, the company is in residency in several differents cities nearby Paris, where the members of the company give many artistical missions to sensitize the population about the choreographical language throw the dance conception of Jann Gallois. The company will be in residence in Louis Aragon Theatre (subsidized dance theater of Tremblay-en-France) through « Territories of dance » 2017, with the support of the Seine-Saint-Denis department.
Among the principal faithful partners who regularly coproduce and program the work of Jann Gallois, we can mention the theater of Suresnes, IADU, the CDC Atelier de Paris / Carolyn Carslon, the theater des Deux Rives of Charenton-Le-Pont and the theater of Bretigny-sur-Orge.

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