Air
2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Dupont, Vincent (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Air
2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Dupont, Vincent (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Air
A chamber opera for two dancers and four singers: Air, composed by Vincent Dupont in 2013, places the audience at the heart of the dialogue between movement and music. Inspired by Les Tambours d’avant, a documentary shot by Jean Rouch in Niger in 1971, the choreographer reinvents the final scene of this short film – an old woman starting a dance of possession, wrapped in a blanket – to imagine another ritual relating to his own culture.
The dancer Aline Landreau accompanies Vincent Dupont in this exploration that gives pride of place to the voice, under the musical direction of Valérie Joly. The singers are positioned behind the audience; breathing rhythms and litanies, based on texts by the poet Charles Pennequin, make the air vibrate on either side of the room, with the dancers joining in the vocal composition. Attracted by material of an incantatory nature and fond of crossing disciplines, in Air Vincent Dupont opens the possibility of a sensitive and sensorial experience.
Source: programme of the CND
Dupont, Vincent
Vincent Dupont was trained as an actor. His first encounter with dance took place thanks to the choreographers Thierry Thieû Niang and Georges Appaix. He then participated in creations by Boris Charmatz: herses (une lente introduction) and Con forts fleuve. Other collaborations were in cinema projects, notably with Claire Denis. In November 2001, he created his first choreography: Jachères improvisations inspired by a photo of an installation by the contemporary visual artist Stan Douglas. This was a performance which called reality into question by working on the notions, both visual and acoustic, of affinity and remoteness. Since this time, Vincent Dupont has been forging his own artistic path whilst continuing to collaborate with other artists. His creations pose themselves as experiments, questions addressed to the spectator’s perception. From 2015 to 2019, Vincent Dupont was Artist associated with ICI-Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier. Since September 2019, he is Artist associated with the Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains.
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
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.).
Air
Artistic direction / Conception : Vincent Dupont
Interpretation : Danse Aline Landreau, Vincent Dupont - Chant Anne Garcenot, Valérie Joly, Fabrice Augé-Dedieu, Wahid Lamamra
Original music : Valérie Joly
Lights : Yves Godin
Costumes : Laurence Alquier, Christine Vollard
Settings : Sylvain Giraudeau
Technical direction : Régie générale Nicolas Barrot, Sylvain Giraudeau - Régie lumière Arnaud Lavisse
Sound : Maxime Fabre
Other collaborations : Texte Charles Pennequin - Collaboration artistique Myriam Lebreton
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 16 octobre 2021
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