Symfonia Piésni Załosnych [transmission 2020]
2020 - Directors : Chaumeille, Ivan - Gubitsch, Rafaël
Choreographer(s) : Attou, Kader (France)
Present in collection(s): Danse en amateur et répertoire
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Symfonia Piésni Załosnych [transmission 2020]
2020 - Directors : Chaumeille, Ivan - Gubitsch, Rafaël
Choreographer(s) : Attou, Kader (France)
Present in collection(s): Danse en amateur et répertoire
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Symfonia Piésni Załosnych [transmission 2020]
An extract remodelled by the group Danse créative, coordination by Victorine Lucas, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
Transmission by Amine Boussa, performer in the piece when it was created
Presented on 24 October 2020, Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris).
The piece when it was created
Symfonia Piésni Załosnych
Firstly produced 22 June 2010 in the former Professional High School Lycée Mendès-France during the festival Montpellier danse 2010
Choreography: Kader Attou
Piece for ten performers: Amine Boussa, Mathieu Furgé, Mabrouk Gouicem, Capucine Goust, Rachid Hamchaoui, Salem Mouhajir, Véronique Teindas, Vaishali Trivedi, Sébastien Vela Lopez, Majid Yahyaoui
Music Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Symphonie n°3, opus 36 – éditions Chester / éditions Mario Bois-Paris
Original duration: 50 minutes
The group
Consisting of seventeen teenage and adult dancers, the group is divided up by affinity between hip-hop and contemporary dance – four of them belonging to both groups. Working separately during the year, they meet up to create a shared choreography, combining the approaches and diversity of choreographic languages, and allowing the sharing of know-how and experiences within the group.
The project
In 2010, Kader Attou composed a choreographic fresco based on one of the major musical works of the 20th century: Henryk Górecki’s Symphony no. 3 (“Symphony of sorrowful songs”). Against this haunting melodic fabric – built on a principle of repetition and progressive accumulation – he has modelled a dancing human community, modulating a broad spectrum of emotions and styles. The variations of the choreography are wrapped around this melodic lament, creating frictions and contrasts with the soprano’s voice that hovers over the instruments.
Attou, Kader
Kader Attou is a dancer and choreographer from the company Accrorap. Athina, in 1994, marked the beginnings of the company set up with Mourad Merzouki, Eric Mezino and Chaouki Saïd, in Lyon. This show is a success that manages to transpose hip hop dance from the streets to the stage. Alone, he then created Prière pour un fou (1999) to renew the dialogue that the Algerian tragedy made improbable.
Douar (2004), conceived within the framework of the year of Algeria in France, questions the problems of the exile of young people from the districts of France and Algeria. Petites histoire.com (2008) recounts popular France based on burlesque sketches. In 2008, Kader Attou was appointed director of the National Choreographic Center of La Rochelle, thus becoming the first hip hop choreographer to head an institution. In 2018, he reunited with his early partner, Mourad Merzouki, with whom he created Danser Casa for the Montpellier Danse Festival. In 2019, he resumed a version for the street of The Roots with the dancers of the N.I.D. Epsedanse by Anne-Marie Porras for the Montpellier Dance Festival. Since 2022, he has settled in the Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille.
Source: Montpellier danse
Chaumeille, Ivan
Film director, Ivan Chaumeille, has worked with choreographer Dominique Brun a long time, most notably in the production of + One (2014), a creative documentary scheduled as part of the festival “Vidéodanse”, in the editing of which Rafaël Gubitsch participated; he filmed and edited two versions of Afternoon of a faun, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinski for the film Le Faune -un film ou la fabrique de l’archive. He also carried out interviews, and devised and formulated the ROM and video dimensions of the DVD (2007). He shot video sequences for the show Medea-Stimmen by Virginie Mirbeau, created at Festival Les Météores CNN du Havre (2008). With a background in philosophy, he produced a creative documentary entitled Avec François Châtelet, un voyage différentiel (2010) for the collection “À Contre-temps” in co-production with Groupe Galactica, Mosaïque films and Canal 15.
Gubitsch, Rafaël
Rafaël Gubitsch, who is a camera operator, film editor and photographer, produces documentaries and videos around plastic art, music and dance.
He recorded videos by the artist Elliott Causse “Fluctuations” in the context of his numerous installations and monumental frescoes. The film Propagations (2015) portrays the opening of the exhibition, which has the same name as his creation.
He made several documentary videos for Trio Talweg including the EPK of their album Trios avec piano (2018), the recording of which is shown at the Arsenal of Metz.
He has been assistant film editor with Ivan Chaumeille several times, including for + One (2014), a creative documentary scheduled as part of the festival “Vidéodanse”.
As a photographer, he planned the exhibition Urbanicités (2016) with Corentin Hervouët at the 39/93 in Romainville, which focuses on daily life and the city, the multitude of loneliness.
Rafaël has been the audiovisual operator of the exhibition hall of the Philharmonie de Paris since 2016.
Symfonia Piésni Załosnych [transmission 2020]
Choreography : Kader Attou
Interpretation : Maud Allory, Dany Beau, Juliette Becq, Juliette Bories, Marie-Claude Chegani, Clémence Dejean, Chrystelle Fages, Mélodie Gaudin Dairon, Marie-Pierre Goujon, Baptiste Martinet, Élisa Thillet, Renée Cleron, Anne-Marie Soulie, Garance Berjonneau
Additionnal music : Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, Symphonie n°3, opus 36
Video conception : Ivan Chaumeille et Rafaël Gubitsch
Duration : 17 minutes
Danse en amateur et répertoire
Amateur Dance and Repertory is a companion program to amateur practice beyond the dance class and the technical learning phase. Intended for groups of amateur dancers, it opens a space of sharing for those who wish to deepen a practice and a knowledge of the dance in relation to its history.
Laurent Barré
Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
+33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr
Source: CN D
More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme
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