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CN D - Centre national de la danse 2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Moura, Michelle (Brazil)

Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

BLINK mini unison intense wail

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Moura, Michelle (Brazil)

Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

BLINK mini unison intense wail

Eyes wide open. Eyes shut. Eyes rolled back. The stare turned inwards. Michelle Moura has taken up a formidable challenge: to write a score for the essentially involuntary movements of eyelids. By paying attention to some-thing as tiny, evanescent and instinctive as a blink. By building up in a magisterial way a study of its hold on faces and  bodies.The choreographer is thus standing up for an exploratory, generative approach: creating practices that induce transformations in physical and psychic states. Expressive sensations, postures and movements construct emotional experiences. The challenge is to remain as close as possible to the body, that factory of emotions. Introducing disturbance into a stare. Cultivating phenomena of resonance. With female saints in rapture, shamans, acidic characters from manga, carnivorous plants: the figures embodied by Michelle Moura and Clara Saito swerve between the ecstatic and grotesque. This meteorology of affects both eludes us and draws us into its powerful presence.

Source: programme of the CND

Moura, Michelle

Born in Brazil, Michelle Moura lives and works in Berlin. She took the Essais training course at the CNDC in Anger (2010) and Das Choreography in Amsterdam (2015) before participating in the foundation of  Cauliflower Miniglobal Artistic Community (2012) with seven other Brazilian artists. She has created CAVALO (2010), FOLE (2013), BLINK (2015), Coreografia estudio # (2016) and Enquanto Somos Humanos (2019). Her pieces have been put on at a large number of South American and European festivals, including Panorama in Brazil, the Venice  Biennale, Santarcangelo and ImPulsTanz.
Source: programme of the CND

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.).

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Artistic direction / Conception : Michelle Moura

Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Clara Saito, Lisa Vereertbrugghen

Interpretation : Clara Saito, Michelle Moura

Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Dramaturgie Alex Casal - Conseils Elisabete Finger, Jeroen Fabius, Katerina Bakatsaki

Lights : Création lumière Lucas Amado - Performance lumière Annegret Schalke

Costumes : Lisa Vereertbrugghen

Sound : Création sonore Rodrigo Lemos - Création sonore (entrée du public) Steve Martin Snider - Performance sonore Kaj Duncan David

Other collaborations : Diffusion Something Great

Duration : 54 minutes

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