Jazz au CND
2011 - Director : Riolon, Luc
Choreographer(s) : Barbaste, Wayne (Trinidad and Tobago) Odums, Rick (United States) Armstrong, Géraldine (Grenada) Mattox, Matt (United States)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , 24images - Scènes d'écran , Saisons 2010 > 2019
Video producer : 24images
Integral video available at Maison de la danse de Lyon
Jazz au CND
2011 - Director : Riolon, Luc
Choreographer(s) : Barbaste, Wayne (Trinidad and Tobago) Odums, Rick (United States) Armstrong, Géraldine (Grenada) Mattox, Matt (United States)
Present in collection(s): Maison de la danse , 24images - Scènes d'écran , Saisons 2010 > 2019
Video producer : 24images
Integral video available at Maison de la danse de Lyon
Jazz au CND
Borrowing dances and music from around the world, repertoires of jazz have continued to renew themselves over times and feelings. Alternately dacing on stages or in ballrooms, jazz is plural, so as the terms that designate it (modern jazz, afro jazz, classic jazz, funky jazz ...) and choreographers driven by swing.
Source: Scenes of screen
Barbaste, Wayne
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, his career as a dancer began in 1977, in Africa and the Caribbean, to continue in the United States (Alvin Ailey Repertory Company). His career as a choreographer began in 1978 (West Indies Trinidad University, Louisiana Dance Foundation United States). In 1985, he moved to France where he worked with the Compagnie Rick Odums, Off Jazz Gianin Loringett then Anne-Marie Reynaud. Welcomed in permanent residence in Cesson-Sévigné (35), he created the Cie CALABASH in 1992. From then on, he began a research work on Jazz dance in order not to break with his choreographic origins while confirming his membership in the current creation. This research is more precise with what he calls “Jazz New Concept”, where he questions the musicality of the body which induces the danced movement.
Odums, Rick
Dancer, professor and international choreographer, he choreography for dancing stars Frenchwoman, the cinema, musicals and product of the shows for French and European televisions. He founds its own company, the Ballets Jazz Rick Odums, which turns internationally since 1983. Today member of the High council of Artistic and Cultural Education, recently named Knight of Arts and the Letters, Rick Odums is very concerned by the transmission of the dance jazz and his mission of teacher.
Armstrong, Géraldine
Born in the Grenade island, Géraldine Armstrong studies the dance in London with Johnny O'Brien and Molly Molloy and continues her studies in Paris with André Glegolski, Jacqueline Fynnaert, Matt Mattox, Gianin Loringett. She co-founds in 1998 with Wayne Barbaste the Armstrong Jazz Ballet, who is called today "Black Source Dance Theater". Géraldine Armstrong knew to remain faithful to the single style of Alvin Ailey, composed of an alliance of the ballet dancing and black traditional dance, on the one hand, and of a brilliant comprehension of the most various musics and their relationship with the specificity of the movement, on the other hand.
Mattox, Matt
(1921-2013)
An actor, a singer, a dancer and a choreographer, he started to dance at the age of 11. Aged 22, he joined the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios before appearing, at the age of 24, in his first musical on Broadway.
1958: Oscar Dance Master of America for the best contribution to the world of Dance.
1967: Oscar for the best Television choreographer
1987: Nominated Doctor Honoris Causas for Dance by the Fédération Française de la Danse. Internationally acknowledged as one of the “Fathers” of Jazz dance and for the creation of his teaching method (Matt Mattox Jazz Art Technique). He has taught this method in many countries including the USA, Finland, Italy, Spain and Australia, as well as in England and France, where his students teach his system or apply its rules.
1988: Awarded the Jazz Dance Master Golden 8
1994: Decorated with the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture
1998: Received the ADM Balasaraswati Award as a Distinguished Teacher of Jazz Dance (American Dance Masters) for his outstanding career as Dancer and Choreographer and an internationally recognised teacher.
Riolon, Luc
After studies of mathematics preparatory class and medecine studies, Luc Riolon begins to make films within the framework of his Faculty of Medicine, then met the famous choreographers of the 80s (Maguy Marin, Mark Tompkins, Josef Nadj, Daniel Larrieu Daniel, Odile Duboc, Josette Baiz, Angelin Prljocaj, etc.) with whom he shoots numerous films (re-creation for the camera, the illegal securements). In the 80s with the American choreographer Mark Tompkins he introduces the video on the stage, broadcasting live on big screens the images which he shoots with his camera by being on the stage with the dancers, mixing live images and pre-recorded images. With Daniel Larrieu he participates in the creation of the famous show WATERPROOF, the contemporary choreography which takes place in a swimming pool, by filming live) the dancers dancing in the water and mixing the live images with pre-recorded underwater images. This choreography has been shown in many countries (USA, Canada, Spain, England…)
Then he collaborates during 10 years with the famous french TV producer Eve Ruggieri for her programs" Musics in the heart ". He shoots with her of numerous documentaries about classical music, opera singers and dance. From 1999 he directs documentaries of scientific popularization, by following researchers attached to the resolution of a particular ecologic enigma. These two artistic and scientific domains which can seem separated are nevertheless, for Luc Riolon, connected by the same approach : the deep desire to understand the world, by the art or by the scientific research, and to restore it to the largest number. Among his recent scientific documentaries, we can quote for example " The Enigma of the Black Caiman ", Living and dying in the swamp " or " The Nile delta: The end of the miracle ". “Chernobyl, a natural history ? “ These documentaries of scientific popularization recently have been awarded in international festivals.
Source: Vimeo
Jazz au CND
Choreography : Géraldine Armstrong / Wayne Barbaste / Rick Odums
Production / Coproduction of the video work : 24 images
Duration : 67'
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