Le 30° épisode du Corps de la ville a été tourné à Berlin avec la chorégraphe américaine Kate Foley sur le pont Oberbaumbrücke, qui relie Kreuzberg à Friedrischain, séparés par le mur jusqu'en 1989 - dont on aperçoit une partie encore conservée sur le dernier plan du film. C'est donc un symbole de la réunification que nous avons choisi de mettre en scène pour cette occasion particulière. A noter, la musique de vs_price qui a composé la bande originale du premier film du réalisateur Nicolas Habas, il y a plus de 20 ans !

Choreographer, dancer, director, filmmaker, teacher

Born 1958 Seattle, Washington

Kate Foley develops dance projects in multiple media, teaches and collaborates with artists working in a wide variety of genres. Of special interest are international community building projects. From 1986 to 1998 Foley directed dance companies in New York and San Francisco. In 1991 she founded the non-profit organization House of Dance with Neta Pulvermacher. She produced and directed house of dance, a public access cable television series serving the dance community in San Francisco. Collaborators in film and video include Rea Tajiri, David Michalak, and Mike Kelley. As resident choreographer for Ulysses Theatre in Croatia, Foley worked on large scale productions directed by Lenka Udovicki, King Lear (2001) and Medea (2002), with Nigel Osborne, the Mostar Sinfonietta and Putokazi. A dedicated practitioner of Iyengar yoga since 1982, she teaches in a wide variety of contexts including universities, clinics, prisons and dance festivals. BFA California Institute of the Arts, 1982. MFA University of California, Department of World Arts and Cultures, 2007.

Grants and honors: 2006 Fulbright Fellowship (Croatia), three National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowships, research fellowship in dance video from the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance, and other foundation, local government and academic grants.

Presenters and partners: Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace at St. Marks’s Church, and PS 122 in New York; Theater Artaud, Sushi Gallery, the San Francisco Dance Center, the Seattle Arts Festival, The Croatian American Cultural Center and Slavonian Traveling Band in San Francisco, and the Croatian Institute of Movement and Dance (HIPP) and Eks-scena in Croatia.

E-mail: kfoley@el.net

Nicolas Habas comes from cinema first, as a screenwriter and director of several short fiction films including Le mal de Claire, broadcast on French TV and documentaries (La parole en chantier, triptych on a popular neighborhood in urban renewal). He is very interested in the tensions between reality and the imaginary, society and intimacy, geography and territories. With a self-taught apprenticeship that led him to a deep understanding of the codes of the film industry, he decided to find «his» cinema and returned with Le Corps de la Ville, the web series anchored in dance, to his first loves, since he made his first dance video in 1998. Shot during the 30° Eurockéennes de Belfort Festival and Broadcast on Arte Concert, Mouvements is its second web series.

Filmography :

2022 Danse ton île - Documentary 52’ (support : HD, © JPL Productions/ AV Com Productions/ France Télévision).

2021 Le corps de la ville en Martinique - Documentary 52 ‘ and web series (support : HD, 10 x 5’, © JPL Productions/ WIPS Productions/ France Télévision).

2020 Pères en prison - Short documentary (support HD, time 5’ © Festival La Rochelle Cinéma/ studio Un Poil Court)

2019 Le corps de la ville à Nouméa - Documentary 52 ‘ and web series (support : HD, 10 x 5’, © JPL Productions/ AV Com Productions/ France Télévision).

2018 Mouvements - Documentary 26’ and web series (support : HD, 18 x 3’, © Séquence SDP/ Eurockéennes de Belfort/ Viadanse/ Ccn de Belfort/ Arte Concert).

2014/2019 Le corps de la ville - Web series (support : HD, 36 x 4’, © studio Un Poil Court in partnership with La Rochelle Cinéma Festival , Studio Chérie (Berlin), le Périscope (Lyon), Nocte Graus Festival (Spain), DAN.CIN.FEST, La Rochelle's CCN, En Knap Cie (Slovenia), Hors Série Cie, Propos Cie, Jean Claude Gallotta Cie and Lyon's CNSMD).

2011 Mauvaise graine - Short fiction (support : 35 mm, 21’, © CLC Productions/ Lyon TV).

2006/2012 La parole en chantier - Documentary triptych (support : HDV, 3 x 40’, © Petits bolides films/ Espace Louis Aragon).

2004 Le mal de Claire - Short fiction (support : Super 16 mm, 14’, © Lumina Films/France Télévision).

2000 En attendant septembre - Short fiction (support : DV, 30’, © Petits Bolides films/ Carré Image). 

1998 Marie au parc - Dance video (support : VHS, 7’, autoproduction).