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Snakeskins

Numeridanse 2012

Choreographer(s) : Lachambre, Benoît (Canada)

Present in collection(s): Numeridanse

Video producer : B.L.eux

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Snakeskins

Numeridanse 2012

Choreographer(s) : Lachambre, Benoît (Canada)

Present in collection(s): Numeridanse

Video producer : B.L.eux

en fr

Snakeskins

Snakeskins is a multimedia and poly-sensorial performance. For this creation, Benoît Lachambre has chosen a reptilian metaphor. Snakeskins, inevitably, is about molting, with an emphasis on the result and decomposition over time.

This solo (or so-called once more this ‘fake’ solo, because he is accompagnied on stage by the dancer Daniele Albanese and the musician / multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe), offers the choreographer the opportunity to point sharpen the strong lines of his work and reposition his approach in the present. To update this very inside inner, process, very organic process, the choreographer imagines a structure in perpective which that creates a leak point of emanation in space, clings on to it and plays upon weights dispersionsthe distribution of weight. The body undulates, surrenders, and is transformed by minute alterations of on symmetry and balance. There are multiple variations and amplitudes of movements are multiples. With Snakeskins, Benoît Lachambre gives opens himself up as never before, making his own skin a surface of resistance to any formatted ideas.


Source: www.parbleux.qc.ca

Lachambre, Benoît

Active in the dance community since the 1970s, Benoît Lachambre first learned about Releasing in 1985. This kinesthetic approach to movement and its use of improvisation became an important influence on his choreographic work. He decided to immerse himself in an exploratory approach to movement and its sources, to seek out the authenticity of movement. His work, both as a choreographer and a performer, has at its centre the hyper-awareness of the senses, and the connection between the somatic and the artistic is central to his practice.

Using a range of movement that draws upon the realm of possibility, Lachambre invites the dancers and the audience to re-connect with a deep awareness of feeling and perception. As he creates these ever-changing corporeal and spatial architectures, Benoît Lachambre hopes to rebuild the connections between bodies, and bring them back to their energetic, organic and perceptive function. Central to his practice is the idea of detachment, relieving the body from the constraints that political, socio-cultural and esthetic hierarchies can entail.

In his creations, Benoît Lachambre works on the performer’s dynamic, to change his or her empathetic experience with the audience. He aims to bring the dancer’s consciousness back to primordial feeling. The choreographic impulse becomes an active, palpable process of ‘letting go,’ which is re-invented again and again… There is something quite radical about his approach to choreography. His deep research into the hyper-awareness of the senses, based on somatic practice, is achieved by re-positioning affect in a context and a space, a living space. Among some of Lachambre’s most important influences are Meg Stuart (with whom he regularly collaborates), Joan Skinner, and Amélia Itcush for her work on the distribution of weight and strength in the body. Along with his work as choreographer and performer, Benoît Lachambre is known for his talent as an educator, having given classes and workshops around the world over the last 25 years.

He founded his own company in Montréal in 1996, christening it Par B.L.eux, ‘B.L.’ for his own initials and ‘eux’ for the artists he chooses to collaborate with, and who have become central to his artistic process. He fosters opportunities for encounter and exchange, and has worked with such internationally-renowned artists as Boris Charmatz, Sasha Waltz, Marie Chouinard, Louise Lecavalier, Fabrice Ramalingom as well as Meg Stuart and musician Hahn Rowe.

Benoît Lachambre is one of the foremost artist-choreographer-performers of his generation. He has created 17 works for his own company since Par B.L.eux was founded, and participated in more than 20 productions by other companies, in addition to some 25 commissioned works, including "I is memory" (2006, a solo for Louise Lecavalier) and the pieces "JJ’s Voices" (2009) and "High heels too" (2013), for the Cullberg Ballet.

In November 2013, Benoît Lachambre received the Grand prix de la Danse de Montréal for his exceptional contribution to the choreographic arts, following the presentation in Montreal of the work Snakeskins, a ‘false solo.’ In December 2014, he received the award for ‘Best choreographic work’ from the CALQ for "Prismes", which was created for Montréal Danse. "Hyperterrestres", created with choreographer Fabrice Ramalingom and composer Hahn Rowe, had its North American première during the 9th Festival TransAmériques (FTA) in 2015.

His latest solo work, "Lifeguard", seeks to further deconstruct the notion of the choreographic impulse, and will have its world première in Paris at the Festival June Events in June 2016.


Source: The company Par B.L.eux 's website


More information: parbleux.qc.ca

Snakeskin

Artistic direction / Conception : Benoît Lachambre

Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Daniele Albanese, Hanna Hedman

Choreography : Benoît Lachambre

Interpretation : Benoît Lachambre, Daniele Albanese

Set design : Benoît Lachambre, Yves Godin, Philippe Dupeyroux

Original music : Hahn Rowe

Live music : Hahn Rowe

Lights : Yves Godin

Costumes : Alexandra Bertaut

Technical direction : Johannes Sundrup

Other collaborations : Christine Rose Divito
 (photographie)

Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Par B.L.eux (Montréal)

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