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La mécanique des anges

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Compagnie Arcosm 2011 - Director : Guerry, Bertrand

Choreographer(s) : Guerry, Thomas (France)

Present in collection(s): Captation de spectacle

Video producer : Cie Arcosm

en fr

La mécanique des anges

Intégrale

Compagnie Arcosm 2011 - Director : Guerry, Bertrand

Choreographer(s) : Guerry, Thomas (France)

Present in collection(s): Captation de spectacle

Video producer : Cie Arcosm

en fr

La mécanique des anges

Choreography Thomas Guerry, Camille Rocailleux

Dance performance Aline Braz de Silva, Arnaud Cabias, Romie Esteves, Caroline Rose, Nicolas Martel, Clément Ducol, Christian Boissel, Olivia Scemana

“Uprooting, wandering, cohabitation, re-connection with our instincts, these are the central notions that we deal with in the work. In addition, we are interested in the rapport that we keep up with our own image, starting from the premise which states: by a mirroring effect, one's self-image and the image of the other give rise to questions which step outside the strict artistic or narcissistic frame, and permit the enrichment of our connection with the world and with ourselves. Each performer takes part in both the musical dialogue and the choreographic dialogue.

The writing of our performances is a ‘four-handed' affair. What connected us from the start of our work together was this idea that we shared fully, that there should not be musical writing on one side and choreography on the other, which would find its life and breath in the time and tempo of the other. Neither would the choreography dominate with the music serving as accompaniment. But that everything would advance, would be created in the same progression, in a ceaseless dialogue, each enquiring of the other, evolving in the same forward movement. The story line, as such, is kept as a kind of support. What really counts is the ‘echo' which is inevitably produced by this process, by the interpretations of one and the other. Similarly, we expect our performers in their turn, with their own and unique being, to enrich (that is to say, modify) the given directions. In our auditions, we have up to now favoured talented younger people, like ourselves at the end of the day. This time, and we arrived at this quite naturally by the evolution of our own views, we wanted to take a closer look at old age, that ‘problem' stage of life, and give it its own energy. In our third piece, even more than previously, we pay more attention to the use of the voice as a powerful vector of emotions, as well as the body, that of the dancer as much as that of the musician, bodily ‘states', their presence in the world, their capacity to recount, to themselves alone, the sum of a narrative or a situation.

We have chosen not to perform in our new work so that we can ensure that we do not depart from the intentions which form the basis for our investigations:

-the meeting of periods, personalities, destinies, being involved in the present rather than the past or future of our characters

- their journey rather than their arrival point

- sensitive rather than cerebral

- letting go rather than absolute control

- the fantasy of the improbable rather than the authority of the logical

- the “sample” (as a selected part of the whole) of the individuals, their acts, in space and time, here and now, rather than the clearly-defined context

- telescoping of reason rather than coherence

- subtle evocation of recurring themes rather than ‘ready-prepared' messages

- the fragility of one who ventures into unknown territory rather than pure, perfectly-controlled performance

- the intimate and unique emotional journey of each member of the audience rather than a linear story”

Thomas Guerry, Camille Rocailleux


Source : Maison de la Danse programme

Guerry, Thomas

Born in 1978, he graduated from the Conservatoire National de Région de Lyon, then from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. He improved his training with Odile Duboc, Fabrice Ramalingom, Hélène Cathala, Betty Jones etc.

He joined the Skanes Dance Theatre in Sweden in 1999. He danced in "Meublé Sommairement" (2000) and in "Matière Première" (2002), produced by the association Les Carnets Bagouets; in "Les allées et Venues "(2000) and "Dehors" (2002), produced by La Veilleuse/Christine Jouve Co. He danced with Bernard Glandier in "Le Roi des Bons", Thomas Lebrun in "On prendra bien le temps d’y être", in 2001, "La Trêve(s)" in 2004, "What you want" in 2006 and in "Switch" (2007).

He founded the Arcosm Co in 2000 with Camille Rocailleux and created "Echoa" November 2001, followed by "Lisa" (2006), "La Mécanique des Anges" (2009), "Traverse" (2011), "Solonely" (2012), "Bounce!" (2013), Sublime (2015) & Subliminal (2016). He took part in the choreography of the performance Carnets de notes for the Odysee Ensemble (2003). He choreographed the solo for the State Diploma with Sylvie Giron. Two years later, he was invited by the association Les Carnets Bagouet to stage again for Les Ballets de Nancy another play of their repertoire: Les petites pièces de Berlin. The Ensemble Odyssée Co also called him to stage their new show Le concert interdit.

He wrote a feature film scenario entitled « La boîte en Fer Rouge » with Bertrand Guerry. In 2009, he worked with his brother on the scenario of the feature film « Back Home ». His choreographic experience can be seen through the sharp vision of the destruction of main character’s body.

Sources: Arcosm Co 's website

More information

compagniearcosm.fr

 

Rocailleux, Camille

Né en 1977, Camille Rocailleux étudie le piano, l'écriture musicale  et les percussions classiques de 1984 à 1999 et obtient le 1er Prix du  Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon.

Depuis 1997,  il se produit au sein de formations diverses telles que l'Orchestre  National de Lyon, l'Opéra National de Lyon, l'Orchestre National de  Toulouse, l'Ensemble Odyssée…

En 2000, il fonde la Cie Arcosm avec Thomas Guerry, marquant ainsi le  début d'une importante collaboration artistique et la création à ce  jour de quatre pièces musicales et chorégraphiées Echoa, Lisa, La Mécanique des Anges et Traverse qui continuent de s'épanouir aujourd'hui grâce à des tournées nationales et internationales sur les cinq continents.

Par ailleurs, il reçoit de nombreuses commandes de compositions pour  le théâtre en France et à l'étranger (Yannick Jaulin, Compagnie G.  Savary, Laurent Brethomme, Karen Acioly, Mona Heftre…), pour le cinéma  et la télévision (Gaël Morel, ARTE, Jean-Pierre Lledo…), pour des  formations instrumentales (Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg,  Défilé de la Biennale de la Danse…), évolue dans le milieu de la chanson  française et internationale aux côtés d'artistes tels que Daphné,  Benjamin Biolay, Camille, Caroline Rose…

Plus récemment, il se voit confier une Carte Blanche à l'Espace  Malraux (Scène Nationale de Chambéry) lui permettant d'approfondir son  exploration du théâtre musical, imaginant des croisements atypiques  entre des formes d'expressions très variées telles que les percussions  corporelles, chant lyrique, growl death metal, human beat-box etc.

En novembre 2012, la cie Arcosm présente Solonely au Toboggan de Décines. L'année suivante, ils créent Bounce ! à destination du jeune public avant de devenir artistes associés de la Maison de la Danse de Lyon, sur la saison 2013-2014.


Source : Site de la Compagnie Arcosm

En savoir plus : compagniearcosm.fr

Guerry, Bertrand

Bertrand Guerry travaille dès 1993 sur plusieurs tournages de longs-métrage de cinéma au sein des équipes mise en scène. Il se forme auprès de réalisateurs chevronnés pendant une bonne dizaine d’années (Gaël Morel, Jean-Pierre Sinapi, Philippe Grandrieux, Eric Guirado et Nicolas Cuche).

En 1999, il réalise son premier court métrage de cinéma “Joyeux Anniversaire Mamie”.

En 2000, il devient l’administrateur de la Compagnie Arcosm, dirigé par son frère chorégraphe, Thomas

Guerry. Une passion commune autour du mouvement et de la danse les lie encore aujourd’hui.

En 2001, il crée Mitiki, une structure de production qui défend les arts croisés dans les domaines de

l’image, de la musique et du spectacle-vivant. Il en est actuellement le gérant et a produit de nombreux

courts-métrages, clips et documentaires. Mitiki accompagne également en diffusion plusieurs

compagnies de danse renommées (Compagnie Arcosm, La Vouivre, Christian Ubl/Cube, Lionel Hoche,

Malka, Adequate, Kokeshi, Zonzo…).

En 2003, il réalise deux court-métrages autour du mouvement “Au Bout Du Rouleau” et “Les Störms”.

Dès lors, il se consacre pleinement au métier de réalisateur et tourne de nouveaux courts-métrages (La mécanique des Anges, De l’air, Ocean’s Memories…), des clips (Black Lilys, Prohom, Daisy Lambert, Billie, Jina…), des publicités (Fiat, Bouygues Telecom, Ubisoft… ), des programmes courts (Picot’art) et des vidéos danse (Dancing Museums…).

En 2010, il réalise « Trois petits tours et puis s’en vont… », son premier documentaire de création en suivant la tournée aux USA de la pièce chorégraphique Echoa de la Compagnie Arcosm.

En 2011, il réalise avec Thibaut Ras “Le Prince de la Valiha”, un documentaire tourné à Madagascar auprès du musicien Rajery.

En 2012, il réalise avec Marion Crepel “Ecrire le Mouvement”, un documentaire qui révèle les secrets de la Notation et met notamment en scène Noëlle Simonet.

En 2014, il réalise avec Thibaut Ras “Je suis Bien Je vole”, un documentaire qui dévoile le travail sur scène de la chorégraphe Marie-France Roy avec des enfants trisomiques.

En 2015, il réalise “En attendant les 24Heures”, un documentaire qui livre la passion des hommes autour de la course mythique des 24 Heures du Mans. La même année, il fonde avec Thibaut Ras, la plateforme de vidéos-danse ALLWECANDO.NET et réalise de nombreuses vidéos-danse à travers la France et l’Europe. Toujours en 2015, il réalise “Le Rebond” avec Thibaut Ras, un documentaire inspiré de la pièce « Bounce ! » de la compagnie Arcosm et porté par le psychopédagogue belge Bruno Humbeeck.

Entre 2016 et 2018, il réalise son premier long-métrage de cinéma, « Mes Frères », sorti le 4 Juillet 2018 dans plus de 150 salles en France. Le film voyage dans 14 festivals à travers le monde et remporte 4 prix majeurs (Prix du meilleur scénario original et Prix de la meilleure interprétation pour l’ensemble de la distribution lors du Festival de Richmond aux USA / Prix du meilleur comédien au FIFB de Bruxelles / Prix du Cinéma Équitable).

Entre 2018 et 2019, il réalise pour France Télévisions le magazine culturel ARTOTECH, une collection

de 14 numéros de 52 minutes autour de la création dans tous ses états.

Depuis Février 2019, il prépare la production de son deuxième long-métrage de cinéma “Nous

dormirons ensemble”, écrit par Sophie Davout et qui se tournera en 2020.

Arcosm

Artictic Direction: Thomas Guerry, Camille Rocailleux

Creation: 2001

Founded in Lyon in 2001, Arcosm is co-directed by Thomas Guerry (dancer, choreographer and director) and Camille Rocailleux (percussionist, pianist and composer). The company has chosen as its main focus all forms of crossover and links between different disciplines and artistic vocabularies. It is based on the multiple ways music, song and dance can interlock. The voice, as material, rhythm, melody, timbre or texture, is an inseparable part of the musical world and adds colour, shape and theatricality to the characters. The specific skills and abilities of the performers are taken into account, but they are also invited to explore other less-familiar modes of expression. In this way, the experimentation spaces provoke new dynamics where extremely well-mastered techniques are to be found alongside precious and indispensible “fragilities”, which act as a kind of sensitive and emotional intrusion. Agitation, de-compartmentalisation: every enterprise founded based on curiosity allows apparently-distant fields of activity to be attained. So, we have no intention of suggesting a sharing of existing rules. We are coming with the ambition of constructing trajectories together which have no predetermined destination, strategies and bifurcations. We are building a set of stretches of road alongside the road, as a way of broadening the field of vision. Fragmented, fiery, audacious, serious or funny, the company's shows reflect our everyday world, times in our lives that are sometimes chaotic, sometimes rebellious or madly euphoric, but always with emotions near the surface.

The piece “Echoa”, the company's first creation (2001) in Angoulême for two dancers and two musicians, has been performed over four hundred times on French soil and has been performed by invitation in Brazil, Luxembourg, Wales, Japan and many North American states. As demands to host the piece both in France and abroad continued, even when its two creators were engaged on their second project (as performers as well as choreographers), they chose to retain it and “hand it on” to young performers, musicians and dancers like themselves, coming from similar training backgrounds (Lyon and Paris conservatoires). 


Source: Arcosm 's website ; Maison de la Danse show program


More information : compagniearcosm.fr/en

La Mécanique des Anges

Artistic direction / Conception : Thomas Guerry & Camille Rocailleux

Interpretation : Danseurs : Aline Braz Da Silva, Arnaud Cabias Chanteuse lyrique : Romie Esteves Chanteuse – Guitariste : Caroline Rose Chanteur : Nicolas Martel Percussionniste : Clément Ducol Pianiste : Christian Boissel Contrebassiste : Pauline Depassio

Set design : Giovani Parisse

Lights : Bruno Sourbier

Costumes : Atelier Bonnetaille – Charlotte Pareja assistée de Nicole Cholat et Sébastien Cormier

Sound : Olivier Pfeiffer

Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Coproduction : Le Théâtre du Vellein - CAPI Villefontaine - Maison de la Danse de Lyon - La Rampe-La Ponatière, Scène conventionnée d'Echirolles - Le Crea /Festival Momix de Kingersheim - La Clef des Chants - Adami - Spedidam - Mitiki Avec le soutien de : Ministère de la Culture et des Communications /DRAC Rhône-Alpes - Région Rhône Alpes - La Ville de Lyon - Le Toboggan de Décines (69) Avec la participation de : Custom 77 / didascalie.net

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