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Peuplé, dépeuplé

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Peuplé, dépeuplé

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Inhabited, Uninhabited

This choreographic solo takes off in the assault of the Self, in the  fury of the pulsations insufflated by a bass guitar-drum duo, present on  stage, at the same time rough and sensitive.

A maze made up of about thirty steles with multiple and moving  properties becomes the minefield of the agitated, stable, blind “I”.

Here the mourning of our certainties is played out, between resistance and renunciation, abandonment and deliverance.

A questioning on the states of being in front of itself, carried by a  rhythmic, animal dance where nothing is consciously created, but arises  in what escapes.

The movement makes the cracks resonate, lets us glimpse the breaks,  reveals the fragile strata of what makes us up, to better detach  ourselves from them.

Towards what end? Erasure or renewal?

A solo on mourning then, which can make sensitive through dance and  stage this passage, this in-between, where attachment, resistance,  renunciation, abandonment and deliverance are entangled.

Attempting to decentralize oneself in order to thwart oneself  requires setting up renewed, specific creative processes, some of which  are still to be invented.

Also to go to the end of this experiment, it is the very intervention  of the will which is put aside, the piece draws exclusively its basic  material from elements elaborated in dream or revealed under hypnosis.  The idea is that all the choreographic material can take its source in  the heart of the author, without him being able to claim anything,  neither belonging nor ownership.

The project thus holds its specificity in this proposal of not  wanting to “create” anything, and to seek to make emerge only  pre-existing elements, by “offering” them the possibility of realizing  themselves.

The states of the body, the states of dance will be privileged. This  mourning must be rather than a story, an ordeal where the dancer’s body,  before any other element, carries by its successive choreographic  mobilizations the dramaturgical stages of the piece.

Ben Aïm, Christian & François

For more than twenty years, Christian and François BEN AÏM have been building a work rich of poetry and high standards, fraternal bond and singularity.

At the end of a multidisciplinary training combining dance, physical theater and circus, each one follows his path as a performer, then the two brothers meet to create À l’abri du regard des hommes, avant d’aller mourir ailleurs, a hybrid dance-theater piece which marks the beginning of their collaboration in 1997. Twenty pieces will follow which anchor their fieldwork as much as they travel internationally. They draw their inspiration from literary, musical and pictorial sources, and intimately mixing artistic disciplines on the stage : En plein coeur (2006), Valse (2010), The Ogresse on archives and her dog (2011), Lightness of Storms (2014), Burn, rebellious hearts (2017), Mirages — boreal souls (2018), Arise (2019), JESTS (2021).

Marked by an uncompromising energy, summoning the performer to an intimate relationship with movement, the dance of the BEN AÏM brothers offers, beyond a speech, an experience, a "crossing" that the dancer performs in front of our eyes, that he lives each time with the sincerity of a full and entire presence.

With this demanding writing comes an art of composition which gives birth to the stage an imagination borrowing from dreams, from the marvelous of the tale and from invisible realities. Through a subtle effect of empathy, the audience enters an unstable world, where everything is the object of poetic questioning - a world to be experienced together.


 

Calendar of creations


 

2021

JESTS

2019

Snapshots - A series femal solos

Arise

2018

Mirages — Boreal souls

2017

Brûlent nos coeurs insoumis (Burn, rebellious hearts)

2016

Peuplé, dépeuplé (Inhabited, uninhabited)

2014

La légèreté des tempêtes

2013

La forêt ébouriffée (The Dense Forest)

L'orée des visages

Karma

2011

L'Ogresse des archives et son chien

2010

Valse en trois temps

Résistance au droit

2008

Louves

Amor fati fati amor

2007

You're a bird, now!

2006

En plein coeur

2004

Carcasses, un oeil pour deux

2003

Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut encore changer

2001

Ô my brother !

La Frontera

1999

Un homme en marche

L'enfant du miroir

1998

L'homme rapaillé

1997

A l'abri du regard des hommes, avant d'aller mourir ailleurs

Peuplé, dépeuplé - Teaser

Peuplé, dépeuplé - Teaser

Peuplé, dépeuplé

Artistic direction / Conception : François Ben Aïm

Choreography : François Ben Aïm, avec le regard complice de Christian Ben Aïm

Interpretation : François Ben

Set design : Camille Duchemin

Live music : Basse électrique : Olivier Lété. En alternance avec Frédéric Chiffoleau pour l'interprétation, Batterie : Emmanuel Scarpa

Lights : Laurent Patissier

Costumes : Dulcie Best assistée de Elise Leliard, Création masques : Rémi Cassan, Carolina Munoz

Settings : Les Ateliers Décors

Sound : Sébastien Teulié

Other collaborations : Régie générale sur la création : Luc Béril Remerciements à : Guillaume Pavesi-Mulon

Duration : 50 minutes

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