PRÉSENTATION

Comédie en cinq actes en prose mêlée de musique et d’entrées de ballet, Les Amants magnifiques sont le spectacle total par excellence. Commandé par le roi à Molière et Lully pour le carnaval 1670, l’ouvrage est la quintessence du divertissement de cour : tous les plaisirs s’y mêlent. Cette comédie-ballet appartient à une veine très mal connue de Molière, celle de la poésie galante, quasi marivaldienne, qui mêle une étude fine et sensible du sentiment amoureux à la peinture ironique et colorée de la vie de cour. Dans cet univers de conte de fées, les égarements du cœur et de l’esprit sont à la fois scandés et mis en abyme par les « divertissements » appelés aussi "intermèdes".

SYNOPSIS

La scène se passe en Thessalie, dans la délicieuse vallée du Tempé. Deux grands rois, Iphicrate et Timoclès, se disputent la main de la princesse Eriphile. Pour la charmer, ils multiplient fêtes et spectacles, sans parvenir pourtant à fixer son choix. La reine Aristione, mère de la princesse, charge le jeune général Sostrate de sonder Eriphile : ce dernier n’accepte la mission qu’avec répugnance. C’est le bouffon de cour Clitidas qui parvient à percer le double secret : Sostrate aime Eriphile, mais sait que son rang lui interdit de prétendre à sa main ; et Eriphile aime Sostrate, ce pourquoi elle repousse ses deux nobles prétendants, sans avouer pour autant une passion que son rang lui interdit.

Following a classical training with Daniel Frank and Yves Cassati, she studied contemporary dance with Aron Osbon, Sarah Sugwihara, Françoise Dupuy and Bernard Delattre.

In 1980 she fell in love with the dance she discovered through Françoise Lancelot – the baroque. She immediately joined the company “Ris et Danceries” and remained one of its principal artists until 1988, participating notably in the creation of  Atys ,  the Bal à la Cour de Louis XIV ,  La Suitte d’un Goût Etranger   with Dominique Bagouet and François Raffinot. From 1989 to 1992 she worked with François Raffinot as dancer and assistant in his company Barocco.

At the same time she taught baroque dance at the CNSM in Paris, the Conservatoire Royal in La Haye, the Sablé Academy, the Rio Academy and in the Cefedem. From 1995 to 1997 she directed the troop of dancers in the Théâtre Baroque de France.

Marie- Geneviève began choreographing in 1985 at the request of several directors and conductors, founding the company L’Eventail with Bernard Delattre. With this company, based in Sablé since 2001, granted national convention status in 2004, she has created more than thirty-five choreographies and collaborated with renowned artists.

In 2000, proposed by Didier Deschamps and Vincent Berthier de Lioncourt, she was named CHEVALIER DES ARTS ET DES LETTRES.

Following the presentation of  "Renaud et Armide | Médée et Jason"   at the Opéra Royal at Versailles and the Opéra Comique in December 2012, Marie-Geneviève created, amongst other things,  "La Sérénade Royale"  which was staged throughout the summer of 2014 in the Galerie des Glaces at Versailles.

For the past four years she has been continuing the project “De la plume à l’image" in partnership with the National Dance Centre. At the moment, she is working on three new creations:  « Les Amants Magnifiques » , « Fables à tiroir » et « Othello ou le ballet des apparences ».

She is also preparing the thirtieth anniversary of l’Éventail to be celebrated on December 12th 2015 with the Ballet des Fables at l’Entracte in Sablé-sur-Sarthe.

Source : The Company Eventail 's website

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Artistic direction: Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre

Creation: 1985

Encouraged by Francine Lancelot L’Éventail Dance Company was founded in 1985 by Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre. From 1985 to 2000 the company was installed in the Paris region, thereof four seasons in residence at the Espace Carpeaux de Courbevoie. Since 2001, with its relocation in Sablé sur Sarthe, the company life has radically changed. In 2004 it receives the status of “compagnie conventionnée” – registered company – by the Ministry of Culture of the region Pays de la Loire (DRAC).

L’Éventail Dance Company is recognized as an essential reference point in the domain of Baroque Dance. Apart from contributing actively to the discovery of the richness and the vitality of this art form as well as to the spreading of the French choreographic culture the company shows a creative audacity: parting from roots of the past it initiates innovation and does not follow but blazes a trail.

The company develops two complementary intentions connecting memory and innovation, past and modernity with creations or reruns of choreographies in the spirit of the 17th and 18th century like (Don Juan by Gluck, Le Carnaval et la Folie opera-ballet by Destouches, Les Petits Riens by Mozart, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac comédie-ballet by Molière et Lully…) as well as the conception of original performances in baroque esthetic but with a contemporary concept like (Voyage en Europe, The Four Seasons, Metamorphosis)

Consisting of around twenty dancers, an acrobat, a marionette player and technicians, l’Éventail Dance Company cooperates regularly with international costume designers, musicians.

Source: L’Éventail Dance Company 's website

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