Sames
2004 - Director : Meulemann, Arnaud
Choreographer(s) : Droulers, Pierre (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Sames
2004 - Director : Meulemann, Arnaud
Choreographer(s) : Droulers, Pierre (France)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Sames
“SAMES” (contraction of James and Sam standing for J. Joyce and S. Beckett, the two complementary brothers) is the first act of defense raised at the end of ”Ma” and forms the knot required by the bow to complete its symmetrical part.
My end is my beginning. A reflection on the status of the author and the interpreter, on he who proposes and he who accepts. That of the choreographer and his dancer. The sabotage of a couple who destroys what it builds. At the same time, the place of contradiction, the gap, and the mistake.
Dancer and choreographer, like many couples, tend to settle on a complementarity and thus to make the other responsible for what they themselves are lacking. In this status, who is who? Revisit the relationship experienced for an instant as a betrayal. Staging the figure of father and son.
”Sames” thus gives the choreographer first place as the initiator of the creative movement. He enters the stage and roams among the vanished presences. The dancer goes back over the past journey, like an indication on the road map. The son goes back to the father
If James Joyce is the song of profusion in a language of all languages, Samuel Beckett is the withdrawal right up before the language. Of all the world’s gossip gagged by silence. We get rid of everything. Another shore.
Black and white (a lied by Schubert Adi is missing)
Source: compagnie Pierre Droulers
Droulers, Pierre
After three years of artistic training at Mudra, the multidisciplinary school founded by Maurice Béjart in Brussels, Pierre Droulers continued his training in Poland with Grotowski. He participated in Robert Wilson’s workshops in Paris. During a trip to New York in 1978, he discovered the work of the Judson Church, and returned to dance after seeing Steve Paxton at St Mark’s Church.
He created a solo in Brussels with Steve Lacy, saxophonist and composer (Hedges, 1979). After working on various projects as a choreographer (Tao, with Sherryl Sutton, 1980 - Tips, with the future Grand Magasin, 1982 - Pieces for Nothing, with Minimal Compact, 1983 - Miserere, with Winston Tong and Sussan Deihim, 1985 - Remains, with Steve Lacy, 1991, etc.) or as a performer (with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Michèle Anne De Mey from 1986 to 1989, among others), he created a work in two parts based on Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce, in which he performed in a variety of ways, incorporating acting, dance, talking and music (Comme si on était leurs Petits Poucets, 1991, and Jamais de l'Abîme, 1993).
The question of form and the construction of a work led to abstraction, disposing of the theatricality which hindered him. He settled the issue of objects with Michel François (Mountain/Fountain, 1995), and explored light and emptiness with Ann Veronica Janssens – artists aroused his interest in matter (De l’Air et du Vent, 1996). He alternated between small and large forms, feeling the necessity to be closer to the performer. Petites Formes, 1997, invited four performers – Stefan Dreher, Thomas Hauert, Tijen Lawton and Celia Hope-Simpson – each to create a small form alongside the one Pierre Droulers created for them. Multum in Parvo, at the KunstenFestivaldesarts,1998, questioned the notion of mass once again with its 26 dancers. In 2000, Pierre Droulers staged MA at the Festival d’Automne with Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens and Yuji Oshima – a stroll through the architecture of modern cities. In 2001, he returned to the stage with Sames, a duo with Stefan Dreher about the question of doubles and the notions of same and different.
Simultaneously Pierre Droulers opened a venue in Marseille, the Bird Studio, for hosting artistic residencies and north-south migrations on the site of Cap 15, with its various studios for artistes.
In 2003 he was given a free hand for a production at the Balsamine in Brussels. Dealing with several venues, moments and artistes (Vélo and Scrub Color II by Ann Veronica Janssens ; Alu by Michel François ; La Maison de Jan Hoet by Koen Theys), this single, unified event presents an itinerary, a pathway between dance, the visual arts and sound that marks a return to small-scale form (Parades) and to group composition/improvisation (Appartement).
In 2004 he produced Inouï, which was presented in Belgium, France and Germany. In 2005 he took part in the Agora project presented in the grounds of the Parc Royal in Brussels as part of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, on which he collaborated with the artist Simon Siegmann, the composer George Van Dam and the writer Jean-Michel Espitallier.
After Flowers, piece for 8 dancers created inside the Charleroi Danses Biennal and the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2007, and All in All, commissioned by the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, Pierre Droulers presented his piece Walk Talk Chalk, at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2009. In 2010, he recreated de l’air et du vent he presented among others in May 2011 at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale in Paris. The piece is still touring.
Pierre Droulers is now associate artist at Charleroi Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
Soleils, Pierre Droulers’ last creation, has been created in May 2013 during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts.
Updating : July 2014
Meulemann, Arnaud
Sames
Choreography : Pierre Droulers
Interpretation : Stefan Dreher & Pierre Droulers
Additionnal music : Philippe Cam, Morton Feldman, ..... merles
Video conception : Ludovic Pré
Technical direction : Ludovic Pré & Arnaud Meuleman
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