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Le Corps de la Ville en Martinique #02

Flexx

Nicolas Habas 2023 - Director : Habas, Nicolas

Choreographer(s) : Flexx (France)

Present in collection(s): Nicolas Habas , Le corps de la ville

Video producer : JPL Productions/WIPS Productions/FRANCE TELEVISION

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Le Corps de la Ville en Martinique #02

Flexx

Nicolas Habas 2023 - Director : Habas, Nicolas

Choreographer(s) : Flexx (France)

Present in collection(s): Nicolas Habas , Le corps de la ville

Video producer : JPL Productions/WIPS Productions/FRANCE TELEVISION

en fr

Le corps de la ville en Martinique

Le corps de la ville en Martinique est une balade documentaire dansée à travers les paysages naturels et le patrimoine architectural de cette île des Caraïbes, profondément marquée par l'histoire du colonialisme français. Les dix plus grands danseurs martiniquais racontent l'histoire qui les lie intimement au territoire et témoignent de la vitalité créative créole, au travers d'un art chorégraphique aux accents multiples.

Flexx

Landry, Yohan

Yohan Landry est compositeur. Par la diversification de ses expressions créatives, il revendique ouvertement l'éclectisme. Celui-ci s'illustre par la multiplicité de ses inspirations et son attrait particulier pour les formes instrumentales, qu'elles soient minimalistes, d'orchestrations ou répétitives. Au-delà de ses pratiques personnelles, il propose également des approches transversales pour la création de projets artistiques en collaboration.

Guitariste, batteur et claviériste de formation autodidacte, il a enrichi son expérience d'artiste par l'obtention d'un DEM en 2007 pour s'orienter vers la prise en charge de toute la chaîne de création musicale, de la composition à  l’interprétation, en passant par l’enregistrement et le mixage. Ses techniques de travail englobent aujourd'hui la pratique instrumentiste et la compétence technique comme outils de création et d’expérimentation, utilisant ainsi les multiples possibilités qu’offre la musique assistée par ordinateur.

Cette orientation actuelle est le fruit d'une évolution cohérente de son travail consacré au lien entre le son et l’image. Son approche de la musique s'est en effet progressivement étoffé au contact de pratiques artistiques diverses (danse, concerts, ciné-concerts, documentaires...) pour s'ancrer aujourd’hui dans la réalisation de projets alliant le visuel à l'auditif. Depuis sa participation au groupe Microfilm, il s’est orienté vers la création pour l'image à travers l’écriture comme support de documentaires, et l'élaboration de ciné-concerts. Le travail musical est ici au service de l'image, pour coller au plus près à l’esthétisme et au propos du film tout en y apportant sa sensibilité.

Habas, Nicolas

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).

Le corps de la ville en Martinique

Artistic direction / Conception : Nicolas Habas

Interpretation : Josiane Antourel, Renaud Bonard, Fabrice "Flexx" Vaillant, Marlène Myrtil, Jean-félix Zaïre, Pascal Seraline, Jean-Hugues Miredin, Laurent Troudart, Annabel Gueredrat, Émilie Alves De Puga, Lindy Callegeri et les Zion BBoys

Original music : Yohan Landry

Sound : Gianny Aldo

Other collaborations : Assistant réalisateur : Amingo Thora, assistante montage et effets spéciaux : Lena Pradelle, étalonnage : Antoine Lafay.

Production / Coproduction of the video work : JPL Productions, WIPS Productions et FRANCE TELEVISION

Duration : 52'

Le corps de la ville en Martinique

In this documentary, each place consists of an original choreographic proposal, created and filmed in situ, in its natural sound environment. A work that requires a rigorous filming device, in which I am looking for a bridge where choreographic and cinematographic creation could enlighten each other. Also, I am in a permanent creative bond with the choreographers to transcribe with them the intentions of the proposed dance, in view of its environment.


The first step is upstream of the shooting, and consists in finding the location of the shooting with the dancer. It is not a question of investing space arbitrarily, but of integrating the dancer’s personal and living experience into telling it. The choice also derives from the visual and choreographic cinematographic potential and its historical and sociological significance.


The second stage is that of writing, the result of a collaboration between the body of the dancer, the camera, and the chosen space.


The work begins on the basis of a concerted improvisation. It is a question of letting oneself be grasped by the sensations to which the chosen place sends us: the colors, the matter of the floors, the circulation of light and the flow of individuals are as many materials likely to nourish and frame the writing. The hand rests on a wall, the foot slides on gravel, a body tastes the freshness of the shade under a tree... And already a story is woven between a body and a moving gaze, which will result in a rigorous technical cutting, in which the movements of the choreography are written according to certain camera axes.


This meticulous writing allows us to concentrate, at the time of filming, on the excellence of the choreographic gesture, and the quality of natural light. Like an actor, the dancer perfects his gestures, while I play with the shadows and contrasts created by the evolution of natural lighting.


Meeting point between a place and a body, between the choreographic and cinematographic creation of the documentary, in direct connection with the history of a territory, its inhabitants and its users, Le corps de la ville en Martinique, wishes above all to make the poetry of dance accessible to all.

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