Nuit Blanche
2003 - Director : Picq, Charles
Choreographer(s) : Lagraa, Abou (France)
Present in collection(s): Cie La Baraka / La Chapelle - Abou Lagraa & Nawal AĆÆt Benalla
Video producer : Arte France;Les Films PƩnƩlope, Compagnie La Baraka
Nuit Blanche
2003 - Director : Picq, Charles
Choreographer(s) : Lagraa, Abou (France)
Present in collection(s): Cie La Baraka / La Chapelle - Abou Lagraa & Nawal AĆÆt Benalla
Video producer : Arte France;Les Films PƩnƩlope, Compagnie La Baraka
Nuit Blanche
An urban and night-signed choreography Abou Lagraa. The director Charles Picq proposes an adaptation in urban natural decoration.
Pulled by a piece created in 2000 and rewritten specially for the television, Sleepless night stages three men on the summit of a skyscraper which dominates the city. They are in suspension between heaven and earth, over the movements of the street and the ceaseless swarm of the urban life.
The action begins in the daytime, in natural light, under the sun and the distant rumour of the city and ends in the trance in the middle of the night. Exhausted, the dancers give their last movements to the sunrise.
3 characters perched on 3 platforms, cannot inform between them that by crossing a net connecting(binding) platforms the some to the others. Link at once reassuring and unstable, but which can also become, for whom ventures there, an abyss, a trap, a den of iniquity.
Source : Compagnie La Baraka
More information : www.aboulagraa.fr
Lagraa, Abou
Born in Annonay, Abou Lagraa began dancing at the age of 16 before entering the Conservatoire National SupƩrieur de Musique et de Danse, Lyon. He began his career as a dancer at the S.O.A.P. Dance Theatre, Frankfurt with Rui Horta and became his assistant on a project at the Calouste Gulbenkian Centre, Lisbon. He was soon noticed and went on to work with Robert Poole, Denis Plassard and Lionel Hoche. His qualities as a performer have been rewarded twice: in 1998 by the 2nd Prize for performance at the Paris International Dance Competition, then in 2009 by the prize for Best Male Dancer, awarded by the International Movimentos Dance Prize. In 1997 he founded his own company, La Baraka.
Once again, recognition came quickly; numerous French venues programmed the young choreographer and he received proposals for collaboration. As a result, after 4 years as an associated artist at Bonlieu ScĆØne Nationale in Annecy, since 2009 Abou Lagraa and his company have been hosted in production residency at GĆ©meaux ScĆØne Nationale, Sceaux. The fame of the company spread rapidly beyond France's borders and tours followed one after the other, throughout Europe and also in the United States, Algeria, Tunisia and Indonesiaā¦ Alongside his work with the company, Abou Lagraa is regularly in demand by large organisations.
In 2001 he devised Fly, Fly for the CCN Ballet de Lorraine. This piece later was subsequently added to the repertoire of the ABC Dance Company of St Pƶlten in Austria.
In 2003 he devised a work for the second-year students of the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, Angers, then in 2007 for the pupils of the Frankfurt Hochschule and the pupils of the Centre MƩditerranƩen de Danse Contemporaine, Tunis.
In 2006 his work entered the repertoire of the Paris OpĆ©ra Ballet with Le Souffle du Temps, a piece for 21 dancers, including 3 Ć©toiles (Marie-AgnĆØs Gillot, Manuel Legris, Wilfried Romoli). Then, in 2008, he composed Everyone's One at the invitation of Ballet Memphis (USA).
Since 2009, in association with the Algerian Ministry of Culture and th Algerian Agency for the Cultural Brilliance, he works, with Nawal AĆÆt Benalla-Lagraa, in the elaboration of a āMediterranean Cultural Bridge", the project of French-Algerian cooperation for the development of the dance and the artistic exchanges which will contain a program of Training and creation. In this frame, he sees confiding for July, 2009, the choreography of Closing ceremony of the 2nd Pan-African Festival of Algiers. In 2010, he creates the Ballet Contemporain d'Alger, under the Nawal AĆÆt Benalla-Lagraa's educational responsibility, with a first piece NYA. The success of which ends in several national and international tours.
This piece was to be distinguished in 2011 when it was awarded the Grand Prix de la Critique as āBest Choreography of the Yearā.
In 2016, he becomes the Ā« Dream up Ā» ambassador, an international arts-based education programme set up by the BNP Paribas foundation. This programme will help some 30,000 underprivileged or disabled children and teenagers to develop and find fulfilment by practising an artistic or creative activity.
In 2016, he becomes āChevalier des arts et des lettresā nominated by the French ministry of culture.
Source : Cie La Baraka
More information : https://www.aboulagraa.fr/
Picq, Charles
Author, filmmaker and video artist Charles Picq (1952-2012) entered working life in the 70s through theatre and photography. A- fter resuming his studies (MaĆ®trise de Linguistique - Lyon ii, MaĆ®trise des sciences et Techniques de la Communication - grenoble iii), he then focused on video, first in the field of fine arts at the espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain (ELAC) and with the group Ā« Frigo Ā», and then in dance.
On creation of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon in 1980, he was asked to undertake a video documentation project that he has continued ever since. During the ā80s, a decade marked in France by the explosion of contemporary dance and the development of video, he met numerous artists such as andy Degroat, Dominique Bagouet, Carolyn Carlson, rĆ©gine Chopinot, susanne Linke, JoĆ«lle Bouvier and regis Obadia, Michel Kelemenis. He worked in the creative field with installations and on-stage video, as well as in television with recorded shows, entertainment and documentaries.
His work with Dominique Bagouet (80-90) was a unique encounter. He documents his creativity, assisting with Le Crawl de Lucien and co-directing with his films Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux and 10 anges. in the 90s he became director of video development for the Maison de la Danse and worked, with the support of guy Darmet and his team, in the growing space of theatre video through several initiatives:
- He founded a video library of dance films with free public access. This was a first for France. Continuing the video documentation of theatre performances, he organised their management and storage.
- He promoted the creation of a video-bar and projection room, both dedicated to welcoming school pupils.
- He started Ā«prĆ©sentations de saisonsĀ» in pictures.
- He oversaw the DVD publication of Le tour du monde en 80 danses, a pocket video library produced by the Maison de la Danse for the educational sector.
- He launched the series āscĆØnes d'Ć©cranā for television and online. He undertook the video library's digital conversion and created Numeridanse.
His main documentaries are: enchaĆ®nement, PlanĆØte Bagouet, Montpellier le saut de l'ange, Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces, grand ecart, Mama africa, C'est pas facile, Lyon, le pas de deux d'une ville, Le DĆ©filĆ©, Un rĆŖve de cirque.
He has also produced theatre films: Song, Vu d'ici (Carolyn Carlson), Tant Mieux, Tant Mieux, 10 anges, Necesito and So schnell, (Dominique Bagouet), Im bade wannen, Flut and Wandelung (Susanne Linke), Le Cabaret Latin (Karine Saporta), La danse du temps (RƩgine Chopinot), Nuit Blanche (Abou Lagraa), Le TƩmoin (Claude Brumachon), Corps est graphique (KƤfig), Seule et WMD (FranƧoise et Dominique Dupuy), La VeillƩe des abysses (James ThiƩrrƩe), Agwa (Mourad Merzouki), Fuenteovejuna (Antonio Gades), Blue Lady revistied (Carolyn Carlson).
Source: Maison de la Danse de Lyon
Nuit Blanche
Choreography : Abou Lagraa
Interpretation : Jorge Crudo, Saul Dovin, David Drouard
Additionnal music : Eric Aldea
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Cie La Baraka- ComĆ©die de Valence - Maison de la Danse Avec le soutien de :Ville d'Annonay - Conseil GĆ©nĆ©ral de l'ArdĆØche - Conseil RĆ©gional RhĆ“ne-Alpes MinistĆØre de la Culture et de la Communication - DRAC RhĆ“ne-Alpes - Centre ChorĆ©graphique National de CrĆ©teil - ADAMI
Production / Coproduction of the video work : ARTE France, Les Films PƩnƩlope, Compagnie La Baraka, ARTE FRANCE
Duration : 25'
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