A funny but serious snake and ladders game about the economy in performing arts.   

This game shows the production methods and the frequently tricky problems that teams wishing to “put together a show” have to face. Functioning like a parodying depiction of contemporary production, this work falls somewhere in between the documentary narrative, a propaedeutic tool and a pathetic criticism of the functioning and implications of the economy of the performing arts. Intended for people wishing to experience the vicissitudes and procrastinations that pave the various stages of a creation…   

Source: programme of the CND

Antoine Defoort and Julien Fournet are associate artists at  CENTQUATRE-PARIS. From 2013 to 2020, L’Amicale is associated with Le  Phénix - Scène Nationale in Valenciennes, a European Creative Hub.

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).

L’Amicale is a project cooperative that shares its resources  (production, administration, distribution, logistics, etc.) to create  cross-disciplinary hybrids of live performance and the visual arts.

Its members try to respond to aesthetic and economic concerns about  new approaches to stage work, while developing an approach to thinking  about production.

L’Amicale was founded in 2010 by Antoine Defoort, Julien Fournet and Halory Goerger, and is based in Lille and Brussels.
The  trio prefer to define their work as artisanal. Which it is. They have  opted to join forces in a cooperative that supports the projects  undertaken while also leaving room for impromptu arrangements, precision  and crazy digressions.

Each artistic project is partly contained in its material: the entire  team, in particular the creative forces, must be able to appropriate  the production framework and the development context.

When looking for the correct angle from which to tackle a production,  it is necessary to analyse, to monitor and to make prototypes.  L’Amicale therefore acts as a platform or meeting place for the  technicians, head of production, creators, communications managers and  other lab staff by aiming to maintain a clear symmetrical relationship  between the production team and the artists/project sponsors.

Antoine Defoort and Julien Fournet are associate artists at  CENTQUATRE-PARIS. From 2013 to 2020, L’Amicale is associated with Le  Phénix - Scène Nationale in Valenciennes, a European Creative Hub.

Source: https://www.biennaledeladanse.com