NUMERIDANSE CELEBRATES ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY !
Program
Directed by Lukas Dhont (2014) Eight dancers engage in a single gesture; jumping. This repetitive and exhausting movement highlights the fact that the dancer merely executes a performance, at the service of... in fact, at the service of what?
Directed by David Mambouch (2018). The transmission of a thought, a way of dancing, of moving in the world and in the Cité. The history of cultural politics, the story of a country, intimacy and universality: all this is found in David Mambouch’s Maguy Marin, L’Urgence d’Agir.
Directed by Tora Mkandawire Mårtens (2015) . Martha Nabwire and Niki Tsappos, two Swedish hip-hop dancers, are the sole winners of the Juste Debout New Style (2010), the mythical standing dance battle. They express the mutual compromises necessary to achieve a genuine osmosis and understand each other just by a glance.
Never Twenty One - Smaïl Kanouté, Henri Coutant, Kevin Gay (2019, 7'). Yasuke Kurosan - Smaïl Kanouté, Abdou Diouri (2019, 14'52). So Ava- Smaïl Kanouté, Henri Coutant (2021, 14'30). Discover it in the 10th anniversary videolibrary just below !
Directed by Martine MBock (2021). 140 BPM is the narration of 5 mums - artists, dancers, choreographers, and actresses - who took this step to become mothers. They confide intimately and transparently to Martine MBock on this decision that changed them forever. Available in the videolibrary just below !.
Réal. Fabien Plasson (2021). Through the prism of the krump, Nach tells us how her body goes through sensation, sincerity and imagination.
And if, for once, the focus were not on the works or the artists but on... you? You, dance spectators, either attending a live performance or viewing its images on your favourite video library! What do you feel ?
Directed by Jean-Marc Landier
Directed by Willy Booteldoorn. Filmed in 1977, this version of the Boléro is performed by the Ballet of the 20th century with, as principal dancer, Maya Plisetskaya.
Directed by Jean Boffety
Directed by Jean-Marc Landier. Filmed in 1962, this version of the Bolero is performed by the Ballet of the 20th century. At the heart of the work is the dancer Duska Sifnios.
Directed by Charles Picq (2007). Andy Degroat delivers his own version of Swan Lac by parodying La Scala’s Lake version and giving his own interpretation of the story.
The famous Brownie Brown invites you to share a family warm-up! Whether you are 2, 3 or even 10 in front of your screen, join her for an introductory workshop to the dance dens available in Tadaam! Ready for a funky warm-up?!
Directed by T.M. Rives (2014). Rare birds follows the creation of A Swan Lake by Alexander Ekman from the Norwegian National Ballet.
Directed by Jeff Tudor (2014). “I wanted to do something grandiose, feral, and different. Something with water!” such were the words of the choreographer Alexander Ekman. Created for the National Ballet of Norway A Swan Lake takes a new, humorous look at Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
Directed by Fabien Plasson (2017). «With Girls & Boys, I did not seek to research into gender issues or relationships between men and women. The piece is a pretext to project images linked to the unknown or the unspeakable. The scenes tend towards stereotypes but it is their intensity that defines the way in which they are perceived.» Roy Assaf. Danced by the Ballet junior de Genève.
Directed by Fabien Plasson (2017). The show is freely inspired by the work of the Yiddish writter Peretz (in particular “Bontshe le silencieux”), Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”, and certain Biblical tales. It is imbued with a multitude of references to Jewish culture and Yemeni folklore, dear to Barak Marshall. Danced by the Ballet junior de Genève.
Directed by Maxime Dos (2021). Chotto Xenos invites young publics to reflect on colonialism, the absurdity of wars, and their implications on humankind. At the heart of a scenography evoking the trenches, the show turns into a powerful narration transported by tender, poignant visual effects, incandescent lighting, and music providing a haunting audible landscape.
Directed by Christopher Wheeldon (2017). An American in Paris was created in the Théâtre du Châtelet in 2014, based on the 1951 film to Gershwin’s music. The British artist Christopher Wheeldon signs numbers recalling the golden age of American musicals.
Directed by Stéphane Caroff (2019) Laughing Hole (2006) shows three actors sorting and exhibiting hundreds of cardboard signs on which the words resonate like uppercuts.
Directed by Cara Holmes (2019). Oona Doherty is a dancer and choreographer based in Belfast. She is daring, complex and ambitious. This innovative documentary, poetic and visually gripping, is a portrait of the artist and of the creative process of her show Hope Hunt.
How to talk of dance? To your students, relays, friends? This may sometimes seem to be a daunting prospect. Yet you don’t need to be an expert to share your feelings. Let’s take 45 minutes to go one step further and see if it’s really that complicated to talk of dance!
Directed by Jeff Tudor (2018). Betroffenheit, a German word refers to the state of shock that overwhelms people after a disaster: what happens inside someone who has just experienced a tragedy? An hybrid show, hovering between theatre and dance.
And if, for once, the focus were not on the works or the artists but on... you? You, dance spectators, either attending a live performance or viewing its images on your favourite video library! What do you feel ?
Directed by Cara Holmes (2019). Oona Doherty is a dancer and choreographer based in Belfast. She is daring, complex and ambitious. This innovative documentary, poetic and visually gripping, is a portrait of the artist and of the creative process of her show Hope Hunt.
Directed by Hofesh Shechter (2018). Directed, choreographed and composed by Hofesh Shechter, Clowns presents 10 of his dancers playing a macabre comedy of murder and desire, and asks: how far are we willing to go in the name of entertainment?
All the staging possibilities offered to the director present challenges to stimulate creation.
Directed by Anne Linsel, Rainer Hoffmann (2010). For nearly one year, forty teenagers from a number of schools in Wuppertal had worked on the piece Kontakthof with the invaluable advice of the choreographer Pina Bausch who attended the rehearsals regularly. Anne Linsel and Rainer Hoffmann supervised the rehearsals of the young dancers up to the Premiere in November 2008.
Directed by Cara Holmes (2019). Oona Doherty is a dancer and choreographer based in Belfast. She is daring, complex and ambitious. This innovative documentary, poetic and visually gripping, is a portrait of the artist and of the creative process of her show Hope Hunt.
How to talk of dance? To your students, relays, friends? This may sometimes seem to be a daunting prospect. Yet you don’t need to be an expert to share your feelings. Let’s take 45 minutes to go one step further and see if it’s really that complicated to talk of dance!
Directed by Yan Proefrock (2021). Latest major choreographic creation for her company, The TREE is a poetic reflection on humankind and nature, on the brink of foundering ...