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Symphonia harmoniæ cælestium revelationum (version 11/69)

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2018 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Chaignaud, François (France)

Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

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Symphonia harmoniæ cælestium revelationum (version 11/69)

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2018 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Chaignaud, François (France)

Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

Symphonia harmoniæ cælestium revelationum (version 11/69)

François  Chaignaud and Marie-Pierre Brébant share an interest in music as an  experience: open and multifarious, steeped in history, in contact with  other modes of expression. Running counter to any orthodox  interpretation, the starting point of their work can be linked to a  utopian future, dreamt at the intersection of the score, a particular  person. This person is Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine  nun and mystic who was also a theologian, physician and musician who  left behind her a musical oeuvre grouped under the title Symphonia harmoniae caelestium revelationum.  Chaignaud and Brébant’s approach consists in reinterpreting its  monodies by adapting them for voice and bandura (a traditional Ukrainian  instrument) and exploring their musical and spiritual content outside  traditional frameworks. In an act of deviation from Catholic  hagiography, from ancient music and contemporary choreography, they seek  to take full measure of these revelations in order to bring out the  liberty of these ardent visions and their carnal relationship with the  divine. This unique creation will culminate in the in extenso performance  of the sixty-nine antiennes. Their performance lies at the frontier  between meditative installation, concert and contemplative choreography.  Through the combined resources of body, voice and bandura, they create  an image as much as a dance, a sculpture of time as much as a vision of  ecstasy.

Source: program of the CND

Chaignaud, François

After graduating in 2003 from the CNSMD of Paris, François Chaignaud has  collaborated with numerous choreographers (Alain Buffard, Boris  Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, Gilles Jobin). Since the creation of his  first piece in 2004, he has taken up a multiplicity of roles as dancer,  choreographer, singer, actor, historian, and cabaret artist. His  work—which weaves the aspiration for dance of a comprehensive expression  delving into the porosity and potential of bodies—is early on  characterized by the singing and dance articulation (Думи мої, 2013). Degreed in history, he nourishes his art with in-depth research. The historical depth reflects in his own pieces  as well as in the numerous collaborations he has done, and continues to  do, including with cabaret artist Jérôme Marin (Sous l’ombrelle, 2011), Marie Caroline Hominal (Duchesses, 2009), and visual artist Théo Mercier (Radio Vinci Park,  2016). Between 2005 and 2016, Chaignaud creates with Cecilia Bangolea a  series of noteworthy shows that are showed worldwide, including Pâquerettes (2005–2008), Sylphides (2009), (M)IMOSA (co-written with and performed with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011), Dub Love (2013), and DFS  (2016). In 2021, he founds the organization mandorle productions, which  supports his desire to follow a line of artistic creation marked by  numerous collaborations. With Nina Laisné, he creates Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando  (2017). The piece is presented at the 72nd edition of the Festival  d’Avignon and brings together signing and dance around androgynous  figures drawn from Spanish Baroque folklore. They are currently  conducting research around partner dances in South America.

More information : https://mandorleproductions.fr

Brébant, Marie-Pierre

A  classical musician by training, Marie-Pierre Brébant is an unorthodox  keyboard player who tests the Baroque and contemporary repertoires to  the full through the body and the stage. Her collaborations with the  director Xavier Boussiron since 2004 led to Harpsichord Parade, a reworking of music by the Doors for voice and keyboard, and Bartók’s Microkosmos for keyboard and electric guitar.

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.).

Vlovajobpru

Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud have been collaborating since 2005. Together, they created Pâquerette (2005-2008), Sylphides (2009), Castor et Pollux (2010), Danses Libres (2010), (M)IMOSA (with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011), altered natives’ Say Yes To Another Excess –TWERK (2012), Dub Love (2013), DFS  (2016). In 2014, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon commissioned them to  create a ballet for seven dancers on pointe shoes, set to Toru Takemitsu  music composition How slow the wind. In 2015, Bengolea and Chaignaud were commissioned by the Ballet de Lorraine to produce a new work set to Devoted, a music by Philip Glass. On the same year, they premiered a new piece, entitled The Lighters’ Dancehall Polyphony for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. The performance Sylphides,  written for vacuumed bodies in latex fetish envelopes won the Award de  la Critique de Paris in 2009 and the Young Artist Prize at Gwangju  Biennial, Korea in 2014. Over the past few years, they have presented  work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, The Kitchen in New York, Tokyos  Spiral in Japan, the Biennale de la danse de Lyon, at Sadler’s Wells  Theatre in London, the Faena Art Center in Buenos Aires, of fig-2 at  ICA, London, at the Festival d’Avignon, the Festival d’Automne à Paris,  Montpellier Danse, ImpulsTanz in Vienna, deSingel in Antwerp, the Teatro  de la Ribera in Buenos Aires, at the Panorama Festival of Rio de  Janeiro, at the Centre National de la danse in Pantin, SESC in Sao Paulo  and most recently at Kyoto Experiment, the Kyoto International  Performing Arts Festival in October 2018.


Source: Company's website

En savoir plus : vlovajobpru.com

Symphonia harmoniæ cælestium revelationum (version 11/69)

Artistic direction / Conception : François Chaignaud et Marie-Pierre Brébant

Choreography : François Chaignaud

Interpretation : François Chaignaud et Marie-Pierre Brébant

Original music : Marie-Pierre Brébant

Costumes : Maureunrol’s

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 29 mars 2018

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