What is this thread that Sylvain Prunenec pulls and unrolls to evoke his  career as a performer? Is it an Ariadne’s thread, with a secret  rationale, which will link together the movements he has crossed over?  The thread of a tightrope walker, whose body can be seen in an  imbalance, suspended above the void? Or is it a thread that is always on  the edge – of a revelation, or a fall? Whatever meaning is attributed  to it, there is a question of bonds, weaving – whose horizon is perhaps  less the bringing out of a design than the step-by-step following of the  elaboration of motifs. During a spoken-danced narrative, Sylvain  Prunenec, who has performed for Odile Duboc, Dominique Bagouet, Trisha  Brown or else Deborah Hay, takes a tender, lucid view of the production  of dance. By exhibiting a body open to an awareness of its own  genealogy, he raises the veil on the multiplicity which is expressed  through the performer’s body, and humorously reveals the hesitations,  élans, chances – everything that the audience does not see but which are  living, vibrant parts of choreographic creation.
source: programme of the CND

Sylvain Prunenec has danced for Odile Duboc, Dominique Bagouet, Trisha Brown, Hervé Robbe, Loïc Touzé and Boris Charmatz. He helped to create Deborah Hay’s peice O,O (2006) and teamed up with Olga de Soto for her piece, “Incorporer ce qui  reste ici au cœur” (2007). 

In 2008, at the Avignon Festival (Sujet à vif section), he danced in “Trois cailloux” staged by Didier Galas, with Laurent Poitrenaux. He performed in Christian Rizzo’s work, “L'oubli, toucher du bois” (2010). On the big screen, he appeared in Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s film, “The perfect guy” (1998) and in Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s film “Toutes ces belles promesses” (2003).  

Since 1995, with his company, Association du 48, Sylvain Prunenec has been creating his own works, often in collaboration musicians. These include “Verso Vertigo”(1996), “Bâti” (1998) with Fred Bigot, “La Finale” (2002), “Fronde  Ethiopia” (2002) with Françoise Rivalland. 

Since the year 2000, he has been working with African artists, in particular the Ethiopian dance company Adugna and Faustin Linyekula’s Congolese company, Les Studios Kabako. Together, they have created “Si c'est un  nègre / autoportrait” (choreographed by Faustin Linyekula) for the “Vif  du Sujet” section of the Avignon Festival (2003) and developed a joint Ethiopian, Congolese and French projected called, “KinAddis / Chantiers chorégraphiques” (2004-2005). He won the Villa Medicis Hors les murs grant in 2002 for choreographic research in Ethiopia.   

During a residency at the Forum Culturel, a government certified cultural centre in Blanc-Mesnil, he created two works on the theme of the body dismembered: the solo “Effroi” (2003) and a work for 6 dancers called “Redoux” (2004). In January 2007 at the National dance centre, he created “Lunatique”, inspired by the work of physiologist, Étienne-Jules Marey. His work, “About you” (2008) is based on the deconstruction of movement. While in residency at the Vanves Theatre (2008-2009), he began a new chapter in his work, focussed on making the often chaotic pathways of feelings and intentions visible via the body. His work for two dancers, “Ouvrez !” was created in 2008. His project “Gare !” (2009-2011) is made up of three short pieces: the solo “love me, love me, love me”, the solo “Psycho Killer” and the trio, “Respire”.
Starting in 2013, Sylvain Prunenec and his company A.48 participated in a three year residency in Marne-et-Gondoire (in Seine-et-Marne, 25km away from Paris), working on the theme of nuance. 
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