Noces / Quatuor

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2013 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Richard, Aurélien (France)

Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

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Noces / Quatuor

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2013 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Richard, Aurélien (France)

Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

Noces / quatuor

In Noces / Quatuor (Wedding/quartet), Aurélien Richard questions the connections and tensions that develop between choreographic and musical structures, between the bodies of a dancer and a musician.

For this creation, Aurélien Richard questions the relationship (of force) between music and dance which plays out in “Noces” (The Wedding), a piece from 1923 composed by Igor Stravinsky, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska with set design by Natalia Gontcharova.

Based on transcripts of the original choreography and the photographic and film evidence of various versions of the work, Aurélien Richard establishes a supply of thirteen postures. By varying the organisation and interpretative qualities of these postures and by relying on the tempi of the music, he allows his four dancers to commit to the extreme precision of Nijinska's movement, but also to reinvent these body states in the present.

Further information

Aurelien Richard website

Updating: July 2013

Richard, Aurélien

Pianist, composer and choreographer, Aurélien Richard performs as both a soloist and a chamber musician and plays with the Diotima quartet, the pianist Vanessa Wagner but also with ensembles like 2E2M or Les Siècles. At the same time, he collaborates on choreographic projects with William Forsythe, David Wampach, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud, Mié Coquempot, Maud Le Pladec, Gaël Sesboüé and Alban Richard. He writes his own shows and performances, including “Hoketus”, a choreographic and musical work, created in 2009 at the Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse. He and Christine Caradec presented a training programme aimed at professionals, from 8 - 12 April 2013 at the CND (National Dramatic Centre): “Stratégies d'écriture et d'improvisation à partir du carcan postural des Noces de Bronislava Nijinska” (Strategies of writing and improvisation starting from the postural constraints of Bronislava Nijinska's Noces).

Updating: July 2013

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.).

Noces / Quatuor

Artistic direction / Conception : Aurélien RICHARD

Choreography : Une pièce inspirée par Les Noces, chorégraphie de Bronislava NIJINSKA

Choreography assistance : Assistante chorégraphique et notatrice Laban Christine CARADEC Seconde assistante Anne LENGLET

Interpretation : Benoist BOUVOT, Christine CARADEC, Marie-Laure CARADEC, Sylvain DUFOUR, Thierry GRAPOTTE, Bruno MOINARD, Édouard PELLERAY, Enora RIVIERE et Yasmine YOUCEF

Set design : Natalia GONTCHAROVA - Thierry GRAPOTTE

Additionnal music : Igor STRAVINSKY

Lights : Bruno MOINARD

Costumes : Thierry GRAPOTTE

Sound : Benoist BOUVOT

Other collaborations : Maquillage Sylvain DUFOUR

Duration : 60 minutes

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