To mark the 30th annual Eurockéennes Festival in Belfort, VIADANSE – Centre chorégraphique national de Bourgogne Franche-Comté à Belfort (National Choreographic Centre of Burgundy and Franche-Comté in Belfort – CCN Belfort) invited 18 choreographers, representing the wide diversity in the field of choreography. The film director Nicolas Habas followed them on the natural site of Malsaucy, from the beginning of the preparations for the festival, and throughout it to the end. The choreographers took part in all that happened, everywhere it happened (stages, technical storage management areas, traffic routes, crowds of audiences, backstage…) resulting in danced portrayals that documented in a recreational manner the impressive machinery needed to bring about the event.

Clip #09 – produced in collaboration with the Ballet du Rhin – National Choreographic Centre in Mulhous and the choreographer Bruno Bouché, backstage of the Eurockéennes main stage, as well as in the team’s canteen marquee during its installation

Bruno Bouché entered the dance school of the Opéra national de Paris in 1989, and entered its ballet company as a quadrille dancer in 1996. He was promoted to coryphée in January 1999 and to sujet in 2002. His notable appearances include works by George Balanchine, Pina Bausch, Maurice Béjart, Kader Belarbi, William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, Roland Petit, Angelin Preljocaj, Laura Scozzi, and Saburo Teshigawara. While at the Opéra de Paris, his company was often invited throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. Since 1999, he has been artistic director of Incidence Chorégraphique, which produces the choreographies of Opéra de Paris dancers such as José Martinez and Nicolas Paul. These have been performed in France, Spain, Italy, Japan, and recently in Israel at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv and the Karmiel Dance Festival, and also at the Opera and the French Cultural Center in Istanbul. Bouché has created several choreographies since 2003, including Bless – ainsi soit IL (2010, Suzanne Dellal Centre Tel Aviv), Elegie (2011, with Les Dissonances and David Grimal), Nous ne cesserons pas (2011, Fondation Georges Cziffra), and From the Human Body (2012, Fontainebleau Theatre). For Percussions et Danse at the Paris Opera in 2013, he created SOI-Ătman and Music for Pieces of Wood.These pieces were performed on the stage of the Opéra Garnier. For Musique et Danse 2014 at the Opéra Garnier, he created Yourodivy. He has worked with the artist JR on the film Les Bosquets and for a film shoot on the roof of the Opéra Garnier. His pieces Amores 4 and Dance Musique 3-2-1 were staged at the Opéra Garnier in March 2015. For the 2015 Israel Tour, Bouché's Between light and nowhere was performed at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv. In 2013, he became artistic director of Les Synodales Festival in Sens, for the dance season at the local municipal theater, and for a young dancers' competition. In 2014/15, assisted by Laura Gédin, he managed the dance project Dix mois d’école et d’Opéra and created the piece Ça manque d'amourafter one school year of workshops with a 6th-grade class from outer Paris. During the 2015/16 season, Benjamin Millepied asked him to take part in his first Académie de Chorégraphie at the Paris Opera. In June 2017, he created Undoing World at the Paris Opera. In July 2016, he was appointed Director of the CCN Ballet of the OnR. Bruno Bouché officially started as director in September 2017. In May 2018, he restaged Bless-ainsi soit-IL for the soirée Dancing Bach in the 21st Century. In October 2018, he signed the choreography for Fireflies. In the fall of 2019, he created, as part of the “Danser Chostakovitch, Tchaïkovski” evening, 40D, a piece for 7 dancers on music by Rachmaninov and Scriabin, and he will create Encoreat the end of the season as part of the programming "Spectres d'Europe # 2".

The contract of Bruno Bouché, Artistic Director of the Ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin, was renewed, for a second mandate of three seasons, until 2022-2023.

Source: Opéra National du Rhin

More information: www.operanationaldurhin.eu/en

Nicolas Habas comes from cinema first, as a screenwriter and director of several short fiction films including Le mal de Claire, broadcast on French TV and documentaries (La parole en chantier, triptych on a popular neighborhood in urban renewal). He is very interested in the tensions between reality and the imaginary, society and intimacy, geography and territories. With a self-taught apprenticeship that led him to a deep understanding of the codes of the film industry, he decided to find «his» cinema and returned with Le Corps de la Ville, the web series anchored in dance, to his first loves, since he made his first dance video in 1998. Shot during the 30° Eurockéennes de Belfort Festival and Broadcast on Arte Concert, Mouvements is its second web series.

Filmography :

2022 Danse ton île - Documentary 52’ (support : HD, © JPL Productions/ AV Com Productions/ France Télévision).

2021 Le corps de la ville en Martinique - Documentary 52 ‘ and web series (support : HD, 10 x 5’, © JPL Productions/ WIPS Productions/ France Télévision).

2020 Pères en prison - Short documentary (support HD, time 5’ © Festival La Rochelle Cinéma/ studio Un Poil Court)

2019 Le corps de la ville à Nouméa - Documentary 52 ‘ and web series (support : HD, 10 x 5’, © JPL Productions/ AV Com Productions/ France Télévision).

2018 Mouvements - Documentary 26’ and web series (support : HD, 18 x 3’, © Séquence SDP/ Eurockéennes de Belfort/ Viadanse/ Ccn de Belfort/ Arte Concert).

2014/2019 Le corps de la ville - Web series (support : HD, 36 x 4’, © studio Un Poil Court in partnership with La Rochelle Cinéma Festival , Studio Chérie (Berlin), le Périscope (Lyon), Nocte Graus Festival (Spain), DAN.CIN.FEST, La Rochelle's CCN, En Knap Cie (Slovenia), Hors Série Cie, Propos Cie, Jean Claude Gallotta Cie and Lyon's CNSMD).

2011 Mauvaise graine - Short fiction (support : 35 mm, 21’, © CLC Productions/ Lyon TV).

2006/2012 La parole en chantier - Documentary triptych (support : HDV, 3 x 40’, © Petits bolides films/ Espace Louis Aragon).

2004 Le mal de Claire - Short fiction (support : Super 16 mm, 14’, © Lumina Films/France Télévision).

2000 En attendant septembre - Short fiction (support : DV, 30’, © Petits Bolides films/ Carré Image). 

1998 Marie au parc - Dance video (support : VHS, 7’, autoproduction).

Founded in 1972, the Ballet du Rhin, which has since become the Ballet  of the Opéra national du Rhin, has journeyed far. From Strasbourg to  Mulhouse firstly where it settled in its premises in 1974. In Alsace,  France and then the world, it has travelled as an acknowledged  ambassador for dance, ever growing through the talent of its successive  "bosses": Jean Babilée, Denis Carey, Peter Van Dyk, Jean Sarelli,  Jean-Paul Gravier, Bertrand d'At, Ivan Cavallari and now Bruno Bouché.  Through their personal influence and artistic choices, they have all  contributed to turning this company into a dance troupe whose expertise  and quality is unanimously acclaimed. The Ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin is one of the rare French  companies to move seamlessly from baroque to modern and from classical  to contemporary styles, so that every mode of dance can be appreciated  to the full. The long list of choreographers from Bournonville to Heinz  Spoerli, not forgetting Balanchine, Kylián, Béjart, Forsythe and Lucinda  Childs, merely serves to illustrate this illustrious journey. Its  repertoire also includes classic ballets such as La Sylphide and Giselle  and re-interpretations of iconic masterpieces such as Don Quichotte,  Romeo and Juliet, The Nutcracker Suite and Coppelia, which act as  landmarks for the great 20th-century choreographers, and creations  solicited of both young choreographers and seasoned artists. The company consists of a troupe of 33 permanent dancers from the world  over, who, in addition to their solid academic training, must be able to  take on board and explore in depth a broad variety of styles.

Source: Opéra National du Rhin's website

More information: www.operanationaldurhin.eu