Paroles Croisées : François Chaignaud & Clovis Maillet
2021 - Director : Rollo, Thomas
Choreographer(s) : Chaignaud, François (France)
Present in collection(s): Chaillot-Théâtre National de la Danse
Paroles Croisées : François Chaignaud & Clovis Maillet
2021 - Director : Rollo, Thomas
Choreographer(s) : Chaignaud, François (France)
Present in collection(s): Chaillot-Théâtre National de la Danse
Paroles Croisées : François Chaignaud & Clovis Maillet
Around the question of gender and the body as a place of history and invention.
More information : theatre-chaillot.fr/fr/paroles-croisees-0
Chaignaud, François
After graduating in 2003 from the CNSMD of Paris, François Chaignaud has collaborated with numerous choreographers (Alain Buffard, Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, Gilles Jobin). Since the creation of his first piece in 2004, he has taken up a multiplicity of roles as dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, historian, and cabaret artist. His work—which weaves the aspiration for dance of a comprehensive expression delving into the porosity and potential of bodies—is early on characterized by the singing and dance articulation (Думи мої, 2013). Degreed in history, he nourishes his art with in-depth research. The historical depth reflects in his own pieces as well as in the numerous collaborations he has done, and continues to do, including with cabaret artist Jérôme Marin (Sous l’ombrelle, 2011), Marie Caroline Hominal (Duchesses, 2009), and visual artist Théo Mercier (Radio Vinci Park, 2016). Between 2005 and 2016, Chaignaud creates with Cecilia Bangolea a series of noteworthy shows that are showed worldwide, including Pâquerettes (2005–2008), Sylphides (2009), (M)IMOSA (co-written with and performed with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011), Dub Love (2013), and DFS (2016). In 2021, he founds the organization mandorle productions, which supports his desire to follow a line of artistic creation marked by numerous collaborations. With Nina Laisné, he creates Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando (2017). The piece is presented at the 72nd edition of the Festival d’Avignon and brings together signing and dance around androgynous figures drawn from Spanish Baroque folklore. They are currently conducting research around partner dances in South America.
More information : https://mandorleproductions.fr
Maillet, Clovis
Clovis Maillet, born in 1981, a performer and medieval historian. With Louise Hervé, he forms the duo Louise Hervé and Clovis Maillet which creates erudite lecture-performances.
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Rollo, Thomas
Audiovisual manager responsible for audiovisual productions at Chaillot - National Theater of Dance.
Chaillot-Théâtre national de la Danse
The Théâtre National de Chaillot is one of the five French national theatres (public institutions whose missions are defined by the State) and the only one to have a project built around and based on dance. Under the double supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Budget, it has been directed since 2011 by the choreographer and dancer Didier Deschamps.
The legend of Chaillot
Installed at the heart of the Palais de Chaillot, the Théâtre National de Chaillot, that became in 2016 Chaillot – National Theatre of Dance, is one of the most prestigious cultural institutions of Paris, not only for the unique place it has in the history of performing arts – namely with the great adventure of the National Popular Theatre founded by Firmin Gémier, then carried and developed by the mythical personality of Jean Vilar – but also in that of France and the world as it is in the big theatre room that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on the 10th of December 1948. An exceptional venue in the capital, the theatre can welcome each night more than 1 600 spectators, in its three rooms (Salle Jean Vilar of 1 200 seats, Salle Firmin Gémier of 390 seats, Studio Maurice Béjart of 100 seats). Its Grand Foyer facing the Trocadéro Fountain, the Eiffel Tower and the Champ-de-Mars, permanently offers one of the most famous views in the world. The public spaces of the theatre are also host to an important collection of sculptures, paintings, frescoes and pastels signed by the greatest artists of their time: Paul Belmondo, Louis Billotey, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Brianchon, Roger Chapelain-Midy, Maurice Denis, Othon Friesz, Henri Laurens, Aristide Maillol as well as Édouard Vuillard.
Source: Chaillot-Théâtre National de la Danse
En savoir plus: www.theatre-chaillot.fr/en
Paroles Croisées : François Chaignaud & Clovis Maillet
Interpretation : François Chaignaud, Clovis Maillet
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, 2021
Animal Kingdom, participant's words
Yield Variations on dissuasive urban furniture
Noé Soulier Rethinking our movements
CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM
Vlovajobpru company
40 years of dance and music
[1930-1960]: Neoclassicism in Europe and the United States, entirely in tune with the times
Indian dances
Discover Indian dance through choreographic creations which unveil it, evoke it, revisit it or transform it!
The “Nouvelle Danse Française” of the 1980s
In France, at the beginning of the 1980s, a generation of young people took possession of the dancing body to sketch out their unique take on the world.
Body and conflicts
A look on the bonds which appear to emerge between the dancing body and the world considered as a living organism.
The national choreographic centres
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James Carlès
les ballets C de la B and the aesthetic of reality
Meeting with literature
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When reality breaks in
Butoh
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The Ankoku Butoh was born,
States of the body
Explanation of the term « State of the body » when it’s about dance.
Dance in Quebec: Untamed Bodies
First part of the Parcours about dance in Quebec, these extracts present how bodies are being used in a very physical way.
Improvisation
Discovery of improvisation’s specificities in dance.