Rien que pour vos yeux
2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Gauthier, Gabriel (France) Michaud, Elsa (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Rien que pour vos yeux
2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Gauthier, Gabriel (France) Michaud, Elsa (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Rien que pour vos yeux
Rien que pour vos yeux is steeped in cinema references. With a nod to the twelfth James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only (1981), Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier imagine a “piece for a film heroine” in which they appropriate the codes of the big screen. The two artists reproduce, stripped of all context, the physical postures and attitudes that actresses adopt to arouse emotion. In the role of the heroine, with Thomas Laigle’s lighting design serving as her only close-up, Elsa Michaud per-forms a choreography punctuated by a series of micro-events but without any spectacular action, on a stage without scenery. To a sound-track composed by Pierre Aviat and David Leroy, her character passes through states forged by classic cinema scenes. Inspired by their experiences as spectators, Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier do away with dramatic flourishes in Rien que pour vos yeux to seek a form halfway between dance and visual arts.
Source: programme of the CND
Gauthier, Gabriel
Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier met at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which they are both gradautes. The interdisciplinary performances they create, straddling dance, music and performance, closely resemble spatial installations, and have been presented at the Ménagerie de Verre, the CN D, Actoral and the Entre Cour et Jardin festival and Plastique Danse Flore. They are currently in residence at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
Michaud, Elsa
Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier met at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, from which they are both gradautes. The interdisciplinary performances they create, straddling dance, music and performance, closely resemble spatial installations, and have been presented at the Ménagerie de Verre, the CN D, Actoral and the Entre Cour et Jardin festival and Plastique Danse Flore. They are currently in residence at the Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers
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.).
Rien que pour vos yeux
Artistic direction / Conception : Elsa Michaud et Gabriel Gauthier
Interpretation : Elsa Michaud et Gabriel Gauthier
Original music : Avia et Orly
Lights : Lumières Thomas Laigle - Régie lumières Yann Le Meur
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers le 22 juin 2021 dans le cadre de Camping 2021
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