Vibrations
Teaser2019 - Director : Monpontet, Philippe
Choreographer(s) : Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)
Present in collection(s): Christian et François Ben Aïm , Teasers
Vibrations
Teaser2019 - Director : Monpontet, Philippe
Choreographer(s) : Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)
Present in collection(s): Christian et François Ben Aïm , Teasers
Vibrations
A common exploration: christian & françois ben aïm, jean-marie machado & christophe marguet, thibaut eiferman
From their meeting at the Centre des bords de Marne and their respective discoveries, the desire to cross artistic experiences was born. During their exchanges, the reflection on instantaneous composition led to this musical and dance adventure.
This is a performance imbued with poetry that draws its stakes from mutual listening, the present moment and the permanent dialogue between music and dance.
This “impromptu” for three dancers and two musicians offers a magical and unique moment, an astonishing and explosive interlude, a perpetual discovery of what can be created in the course of the imagination and the unfolding of theatrical events, through resonance, sequencing and poetic friction.
In the sharing of the organic energy of their dance, with the physicality of the music accentuating the perception of the moment, the communicative pleasure of the artists towards the audience is born, constantly taken to an unexpected place.
This stripped down, immediate performance creates a strong sense of suspense and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. The play is exhilarating because of the risk and challenge that are palpable at all times, which sublimates the audience’s feeling of freedom. The effect of surprise is endless; it is savoured and fulfilled through the exploration of the pure present.
Our way of living and sharing dance is based on this idea of passage. To take a step is to deviate from oneself and to take the risk of the new.
Christian et François Ben Aïm
Today, I have moved towards a music that is my truth, that I have constructed sensation after sensation, emotion after emotion. This music moves through several interlocking idioms, as close as possible to my creative instincts, freeing me from an aesthetic family.
Jean-Marie Machado
Source: Christian & François Ben Aïm
More information: cfbenaim.com
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Ben Aïm, Christian & François
For more than twenty years, Christian and François BEN AÏM have been building a work rich of poetry and high standards, fraternal bond and singularity.
At the end of a multidisciplinary training combining dance, physical theater and circus, each one follows his path as a performer, then the two brothers meet to create À l’abri du regard des hommes, avant d’aller mourir ailleurs, a hybrid dance-theater piece which marks the beginning of their collaboration in 1997. Twenty pieces will follow which anchor their fieldwork as much as they travel internationally. They draw their inspiration from literary, musical and pictorial sources, and intimately mixing artistic disciplines on the stage : En plein coeur (2006), Valse (2010), The Ogresse on archives and her dog (2011), Lightness of Storms (2014), Burn, rebellious hearts (2017), Mirages — boreal souls (2018), Arise (2019), JESTS (2021).
Marked by an uncompromising energy, summoning the performer to an intimate relationship with movement, the dance of the BEN AÏM brothers offers, beyond a speech, an experience, a "crossing" that the dancer performs in front of our eyes, that he lives each time with the sincerity of a full and entire presence.
With this demanding writing comes an art of composition which gives birth to the stage an imagination borrowing from dreams, from the marvelous of the tale and from invisible realities. Through a subtle effect of empathy, the audience enters an unstable world, where everything is the object of poetic questioning - a world to be experienced together.
Calendar of creations
2021
2019
Snapshots - A series femal solos
2018
2017
Brûlent nos coeurs insoumis (Burn, rebellious hearts)
2016
Peuplé, dépeuplé (Inhabited, uninhabited)
2014
2013
La forêt ébouriffée (The Dense Forest)
2011
L'Ogresse des archives et son chien
2010
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut encore changer
2001
La Frontera
1999
L'enfant du miroir
1998
L'homme rapaillé
1997
A l'abri du regard des hommes, avant d'aller mourir ailleurs
Machado, Jean-Marie
A classically trained musician, inhabited by the spirit of improvisation and creation, avid for encounters, Jean-Marie Machado has shown a marked taste for unusual orchestral formations. He has developed an original writing style, sometimes erudite but always guided by a concern for lyricism. He likes to define himself as a composer of today, concerned with diverse horizons, openness and exchange.
In his various projects, one can feel the multiplicity of his cultural heritage: born in Morocco, of an Italian and Spanish mother and a Portuguese father, he studied the piano with the great concert artist Catherine Collard. He then discovered jazz and improvisation and played alongside the greatest European and American jazzmen (Dave Liebman, Andy Sheppard, Paolo Fresu) and shared traditional and world music with the great Brazilian percussionist, Nana Vasconcelos.
Jean-Marie Machado founded the Danzas Orchestra in 2007, which has been presenting different programs for several years, to date 5: L’Amour Sorcier, Pictures for Orchestra, La Fête à Boby, Lagrima Latina, Fiesta nocturna. At the same time, he plays in duo with the accordionist Didier Ithursarry (Palmarès live du Bureau Export 2017-2018), he creates a percussion orchestra (Impulse Songs), a piece for symphonic orchestra L’esprit de l’eau (creation with the ONDIF in September 2017 at the Centre des Bords de Marne) and a solo piano project with a sound sculpture created by Alain Français (Immersons). Composer associated with the CdbM, he met Christian and François Ben Aïm, the starting point of the performative adventure Vibrations.
Source: Christian & François Ben Aïm
More information: cfbenaim.com
Marguet, Christophe
Born in 1965, he studied with Jacques Bonnardel, Michel Sardaby, Keith Copeland, and attended workshops with Kenny Barron, David Liebman, Richie Beirach, John Abercrombie and many others. He then played with many musicians including Barney Wilen, Joe Lovano, Henri Texier, Joachim Kühn, Kenny Wheeler, Michel Portal, Géraldine Laurent, Andy Sheppard, Louis Sclavis, Steve Swallow, Enrico Rava. In 1993, he founded his own trio with Sébastien Texier and Olivier Sens. He has performed at most of the major jazz festivals in France and Europe and has played in many countries abroad. He also participated in the recording of film music for Bertrand Tavernier. A drummer marked by the jazz tradition while having wanted and succeeded in freeing himself from it, Christophe Marguet has made a rare and coherent journey as a musician, managing to evolve seamlessly from his initial interest in bebop to improvised music. Recognized as a colorist drummer, he has asserted himself as a clear-sighted composer and leader, attentive to space and silence, participating in a new generation of French jazzmen who are questioning the virtues of improvisation and the relationship it can have with writing.
Source: Christian & François Ben Aïm
More information: cfbenaim.com
Monpontet, Philippe
Director, Screenwriter, Director of photography, Editor, Sound editor, Artistic director, Mixing.
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Vibrations
Artistic direction / Conception : Chrisitian & François Ben Aïm
Interpretation : Chrisitian & François Ben Aïm, Thibaut Eiferman, Jean-Marie Machado & Christophe Marguet
Live music : Jean-Marie Machado & Christophe Marguet
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