The Spectator's Moment or how to discover an artist, a piece of work or a company in just two minutes. It is a collection of programmes produced by the Maison de la Danse in Lyon and presented by Dominique Hervieu. Each episode is devoted to an artist or a company that is programmed at the Maison de la Danse and offers the public keys or artistic benchmarks for better understanding and appreciating the choreographic art.
 



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Born in Milan in 1964, Laura Scozzi found her path in weaving together the miscellaneous. She established her own company Opinioni in Movimento in 1994, and chose to mix dance, singing and theatre together. She went on to carry out research work on emotions, entitled F.E.I.R. - Facteur Extérieur Cherche Individu en vue de Résultat (External Factor Seeking an Individual to Achieve a Result), the series began in 1995 with L’Amour (Love). She continued her route with La Peur (Fear) in 1998, La Colère (Anger) in 2002 and Le Désir, Le Dégoût (Desire, Disgust) in 2004. 

At the same time as running her company, she developed her career as an independent choreographer and created several works with hip-hop dancers for the Suresnes Cités Danse Festival. She revisited La Dolce Vita in 2001 and orchestrated Brecht/Weill’s ballet-opera Les Sept Péchés Capitaux (The Seven Deadly Sins) also in 2001. Laura Scozzi has also worked hand-in-hand with a myriad of other creators, and has imagined choreographies for operatic performances, for the theatre and the cinema: Coline Serreau, Laurent Pelly, Jean-Louis Grinda, Emmanuelle Bastet, Matthieu Poirot-Delpech and Sébastien Lifschitz. In 2008, she created her first opera production with Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz. After this, she produced Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2009-2010). In 2014, she created Barbe-Neige et les sept petits cochons au Bois dormant with eight hip-hop dancers.

Source : Théâtre du Rond Point

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

More information: fabione.fr