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KiloBâtie : Vivallure

Maison de la danse 2010 - Director : Dupoy, Pascal

Choreographer(s) : Foofwa d'Imobilité (Switzerland)

Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , Saisons 2010 > 2019

Video producer : Foofwa d'Imobilité

Integral video available at Maison de la danse de Lyon

en fr

KiloBâtie : Vivallure

Maison de la danse 2010 - Director : Dupoy, Pascal

Choreographer(s) : Foofwa d'Imobilité (Switzerland)

Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , Saisons 2010 > 2019

Video producer : Foofwa d'Imobilité

Integral video available at Maison de la danse de Lyon

en fr

KiloBâtie 3 : Vivallure

KILOBÂTIE 3 : VIVALLURE

Concept and choreography Foofwa d'Imobilité

Time: 15:00    
Place: Geneva    
Course: 30-40 min
Fast-paced dance-run of half an hour (or 40 minutes) with experienced runners (volunteers). With Polar's musical creation, intended for downloading onto mp3 players, to be broadcast from the bodies of all the participants.
Rebroadcast of recording of “KiloBâtie 3” after the finish (around 15:40) on the big screen at Le Tampopo.

Credits

Une production Neopost Ahrrrt concept, choré. & interprétation Foofwa textes, communication Antoine Lengo administration, coordination Yann Aubert captation vidéo sur roller Pascal Dupoy composition & réalisation musicale Polar stagiaire (gestion du public) Eduard Heu

Updating : May 2011

Foofwa d'Imobilité

Born Frédéric Gafner in Geneva in 1969, son of Brazilian prima ballerina and dance teacher Beatriz Consuelo and solo dancer turned theatre photographer Claude Gafner, Foofwa d’Imobilité studied at the Geneva Dance Centre and worked with the Ballet Junior (1981-1987) under his mother’s direction. He then danced professionally with the Stuttgart Ballet in Germany (1987-1990) before joining the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in New York (1991-1998).

He began working as a choreographer in 1998, creating three multimedia solos.

In 2000, he established the Neopost Foofwa Association in Geneva, with which he produced several group performances. Foofwa has worked in association with mix-media artists Alan Sondheim; artist Antoine Lengo; musicians Fast Forward, Jim O’Rourke, Christian Marclay, Elliot Sharp, Polar, Brice Catherin, Claude Jordan, Nicolas Sordet and Séni; visual artists Nicolas Rieben and Alexia Walther; video makers Pascal Magnin, Nicolas Wagnières and Pascal Dupoy; choreographers Thomas Lebrun and Corina Pia; author Mathieu Bertholet; lighting designers Liliane Tondellier, Jean-Marc Serre, Marc Gaillard, Yves Godin and Jonathan O’Hear; scientists Olaf Blanke and Vincent Barras; dance researcher Annie Suquet and journalist-critic Christina Thurner.

He has studied the relationship between dance and sport and invented the “dancerun”, a hybrid activity between dancing and running over several kilometres, either on stage with « Perform.dancerun.2 » (2003) or outside with « Kilometrix.dancerun.4 » (2003). He then studied the relationship between public and choreographic work in « The Making of Spectacles » (2008) and « Quai du Sujet » (2007); the digital body in « Media Vice Versa » (2002), « Avatar dance series », « Second Live series » (videos), and « Body Toys » (2007); the historicity of the dancing body in « Descendansce » (2000), Le Show (2001), MIMESIX (2005), Benjamin de Bouillis (2005), « Musings » (2009), Pina Jackson in « Mercemoriam » (2009) and « Histoires Condansées » (2011). Foofwa has been commissioned by the Nederlands Dans Theater II, the Bern Ballet, the Ballet Junior de Genève, the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD) and the Festival d’Avignon in 2010 for « Au Contraire » (à partir de Jean-Luc Godard). He has received the financial backing of the Geneva and the Swiss authorities every year since 2002 and received awards from the Leenaards Foundation in 1999 and the prestigious New York Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2009. He was also awarded the Prix de Lausanne in 1987, the New York Bessie Award in 1995, the Swiss Dance and Choreography Prize in 2006 and the first Swiss Prize for Dance in the “dancer” category in September 2013, among other prizes.

His most recent performances include « Uterus, pièce d’intérieur » (2014), « L’engage » (2014), and « Soi-même comme un autre » (2014).

Source: The company Neopost Foofwa s website

More information

foofwa.com

 

Dupoy, Pascal

Pascal Dupoy was born in Paris in 1975. A keen amateur skater from the age of six, he studied geography to Master's level at the Paris 1 university. After completing his studies, he rapidly turned towards photography and video and worked with Shulea Cheang (digital artist and director) and Phillipe Dussol (director) among others. He shot film on roller skates for different events and pieces (Foofwa d'Imobilité, Chanel) and for documentaries about filming (L'Oréal). Then he met Xavier Faltot, the internet agitator, for whom he filmed for various video programmes (FrenchConnexion, Netexplorateur, INPES...).

He subsequently established himself as a network and server administrator and now works for various Parisian cultural venues (Mains d'Oeuvres, La Maison des Arts, Créteil).    
For the past three years, he has been technical director of the Chambre à Air mobile radio programme from the streets of Paris (broadcast on the internet and and Radio Campus Paris).  
 
He is currently preparing for the Year of Mexico in France, planned for 2011.  

Source: Cie Neopost Foofwa 's website

 

 

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