Époque
2018 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Santander Corvalán, Marcela (Chile) Cordeiro, Volmir (Brazil)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Époque
2018 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Santander Corvalán, Marcela (Chile) Cordeiro, Volmir (Brazil)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Époque
Valeska Gert, an important figure in the exhibition through her exploration of fictions of the face, is evoked by Marcela Santander Corvalán and Volmir Cordeiro in an extract from their piece, Époque, which offers a new exploration of Latifa Laâbissi’s revival of Japanese Grotesque by Gert.
Made up of ecstasy, pleasure, subversion, lasciviousness, terror, extravagance and joy, the dances we have worked on require a prodigious ability to leap from one mood to another, to engage with the most irreverent scenarios, and to shake, dislocate and throw the body off balance. Behind every emotion is a range of imagined possibilities allowing us to bring a variety of presences, approaches and interdependent modes of sensation to the stage. Epoque (Epoch) is a study, an inventory of dances in which 20th century female artists explore the performance of contorted movements.
The title, Epoque (Epoch), evokes a certain quality more than a specific time. In this performance, different elements are explored and interpreted to reanimate an intimate and vibrant story, which has been forgotten or lost in the symbolic past of our journey as dancers. Here dance is used as a raw and direct means to revisit and revivify an archive whose insistent vitality resonates with our present. Epoch is a search for magic. The magic of an enigma, of mystery, of the power of the moment and the way its constant renewal provides the basis for our movement.
Epoque (Epoch) is made up of the following dances: The subversion of 1920, The terror of 1929, The extravagance of 1926, The mystery of 1996, The conquest of 2001, The vertigo of 1968, The domination of ? The euphoria of 1925, The belief of 1965, The resurrection of 1973, The vice of 1922, The lasciviousness of 1917, The pleasure of 1927, The dream of 1929, The ecstasy of 1920, The revolt of 1924 and The excess of 2015.
Source: programme of the CND
Santander Corvalán, Marcela
Born in Chile, Marcela Santander Corvalán trained at the Milan dance-theatre, then at the contemporary dance centre CNDC, in Angers. She has also studied history at the University of Trento (Italy) and obtained a dance degree from the University Paris 8. Since 2011 she has danced for Dominique Brun, Faustin Linyekula or else Volmir Cordeiro, while also assisting Julie Nioche and Mickael Phelippeau with their choreography. She has been developing her own personal projects since 2014, including Époque (with Volmir Cordeiro) and MASH (with Annamaria Ajmone).
Cordeiro, Volmir
Born in 1987, Volmir Cordeiro first studied theatre before working with Brazilian choreographers Alejandro Ahmed, Cristina Moura and Lia Rodrigues. He joined the “Essais” (Tests) course in 2011, at the National Centre for Contemporary Dance in Angers, under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh. In November 2018, he defended his doctoral thesis on marginal figures in contemporary dance at Paris 8 University, which is to be published in 2019. He has performed in pieces by Xavier Le Roy, Emmanuelle Huynh, Vera Mantero and Latifa Laâbissi, etc.
In 2012, he choreographed and performed his first solo in France, Sky, then another, Inês in 2014 and in March 2015, the duo Epoch with Marcela Santander Corvalán. He completed his first cycle of works, composed of three solos including Sky and Inês, with Street, created in October 2015 at the Louvre Museum, in collaboration with the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair, FIAC. In February of 2017, he created a piece for four dancers, The Eye the Mouth and the Rest in Brest. In September of 2019, he created a piece for six performers, Trottoir, in Festival Actoral - Marseille.
He teaches regularly in choreography programmes, such as P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, the Exerce Master (ICI-CCN Montpellier, France) and the Drama Master (Kask Conservatorium, Gand, Belgium). Volmir Cordeiro was an associated artist at the Ménagerie de Verre in 2015, and has been an associated artist at the National Dance Centre (CND) in Pantin since 2017. He is also a resident research artist at Ateliers Médicis, in Clichy-sous-bois.
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.).
Époque
Choreography : Volmir Cordeiro et Marcela Santander Corvalán
Interpretation : Volmir Cordeiro et Marcela Santander Corvalán
Lights : Maël Guiblin
Costumes : Volmir Cordeiro et Marcela Santander Corvalán
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Le Quartz, scène nationale de Brest - Avec le soutien de : Ménagerie de Verre, Casa do Povo, Le CND Centre national de la danse
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