Cygn etc... [Version Wolliaston]
2000 - Director : [s.n.],
Choreographer(s) : Wolliaston, Elsa (France) Pauwels, Pedro (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse
Video producer : PePau
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Cygn etc... [Version Wolliaston]
2000 - Director : [s.n.],
Choreographer(s) : Wolliaston, Elsa (France) Pauwels, Pedro (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse
Video producer : PePau
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Cygn etc...
Cygn etc... is a solo performed by Pedro Pauwels, choreographed by 8 female choreographers (Anne-Marie Reynaud, Odile Duboc, Carolyn Carlson, Françoise Dupuy, Elsa Wolliaston, Wilfride Piollet, Patricia Karagozian, Zaza Disdier). The Dying Swan is a famous ballet choreographed by the Russian Michel Folkine in 1907 for the dancer Anna Pavlova. A century later, Pedro Pauwels decided to reinterpret this dance legend by changing the facts. He asked 8 female choreographers, with who he wanted to work and whose works, universe and philosophy interested him, to create a choreography on this theme. The initial interpreter, Ana Pavlova, was the absolute model of femininity. By reinventing this dance, Pedro Pauwels seeks to question what is feminine and masculine in each one of us.
In his own words: “The aim of the dancer-interpreter is to immerse themselves in the widely varying worlds of each choreographer, with the challenge of creating a bridge between our heritage and contemporary creation. A male body and a legendary dance are the only two unique materials in this creation, as seen by women, thus revealing their essence, their writing and their signature.”
Source: CND Media library
Wolliaston, Elsa
Elsa Wolliaston moved to Paris in 1969 and worked with Jerome Andrews and Lilian Arlen. She continued her training during a stay in Africa, and researched ancestral rites. From 1970 onwards, she performed in various African countries and Niger in particular, where she danced “La Fleuve” in 1974. In Paris in 1975, she founded the company Ma Danse Rituel Théâtre with Yano Hideyuki. They choreographed and performed numerous pieces together. She has also composed music and dance duets with the saxophonist Steve Lacy. She choreographs regularly for the theatre and opera, trains actors in movement at the Theaterhaus Interkurst and Theatertreffin in Berlin, and teaches African-inspired contemporary dance throughout the world.
Further information
Digital resource - Médiathèque du Centre national de la danse
http://mediatheque.cnd.fr/spip.php?page=mediatheque-numerique-ressource&id=PHO00003898
Updating: November 2010
Pauwels, Pedro
Belgian-born Pedro Pauwels attended his first dance classes at the Renate Peter School in Brussels, then obtained a scholarship to the Rosella Hightower Centre, Cannes, where he studied classical, jazz and modern dance, therapy and music theory. He joined the Cannes Jeune Ballet International, where he worked on contemporary repertoire. Here he met some of the big names in dance, such as Dominique Bagouet, Mathilde Monnier, Peter Goss, Viola Farber, Jean-François Duroure and Bella Lewitsky.
As a member of the Compagnie Karine Saporta – CCN de Caen, he took part in several works during 1989 and 1990, including “Les Taureaux de Chimène”, as well as dance sequences in the films “Prospero's Book” by Peter Greenaway and “Le Diable au Corps” by Gérard Vergez. During this same period, he collaborated with the Companie Alain Marty. Then, with the Compagnie d'Odile Duboc – CCN de Belfort, he was involved in the choreography of “La Maison d'Espagne” and the revival of “Repères” in 1991, the preparation of a model for the Paris Opéra in 1992 and the creation of “Projet de Matière” in 1993.
In addition, since 1990 Pedro Pauwels has regularly been invited to teach on various courses in France and internationally, at the Rosella Hightower Centre in Cannes, CND in Pantin and Lyon, Laval, Chartres, Venice, Seoul… In November 1990 he founded his own company with support from the PePau Association, and presented his first choreography “L'Insoupçonnée” in 1991.
During 1992 he became more fully involved in choreography: “A mes côtés”, performed by his own company, a commission from Opéra du Rhin for “La Khovantchina”, and “Ecume de rêve”, devised for the Cannes Jeune Ballet International. He also choreographed the ballets for Gounod's “Roméo et Juliette”, which opened the season at the new Opéra-Théâtre, Massy.
Since then, his career as a choreographer has been closely linked with PePau, whose momentum and creativity he embodies: one or two new works per year, show/event design, regular dissemination of repertoire (chosen by Bancs d'Essais Internationaux in 1994-95, Iles-de-danse 1998, Seoul International Festival in 1998 and 2000), awareness-raising projects in partnership with French state education, ADIAMs, ADDAs, host theatres, local councils…
He is keen to compose in collaboration with other disciplines – theatre, hip-hop dance, improvised or techno music – and continues to work regularly as a performer or guest choreographer with the Jeune Ballet de France at the Paris Conservatoire (Junior Ballet), in Tunisia and in Martinique.
For three years from 2003, Pedro Pauwels focused on science and technology. He established links with University of Caen and its laboratory and with the Enghien-les-Bains Centre. Then, with his “Sens” triptych project, he began devising a choreography and technical mechanism which allows dance to be read through sound and feeling.
In 2006 the company took “Sens 1” on a tour of central Africa, after it was chosen by the dance commission of AFAA.
In 2007 Pedro Pauwels returned to North Africa to present “Pliage(s)” as part of the Cairo International Festival in Egypt and the Carthage Choreographic Encounters in Tunisia.
Updating: November 2010
[s.n.],
Cygn etc... [Version Wolliaston]
Artistic direction / Conception : Pedro Pauwels
Choreography : Elsa Wolliaston
Interpretation : Pedro Pauwels
Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Anne-Marie Reynaud
Additionnal music : Camille Saint-Saëns
Lights : Evelyne Rubert
Costumes : Marie-Christine Franc
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