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 Saint-Etienne (France) in 1981. 

A  graduate of the ESDC Rosella Hightower and winner of the professional  prize at the Prix de Lausanne, Pierre Pontvianne joined the Nederland  Dans Theater 2 under director Jiří Kylián in 1999. Since then, he has  worked as a freelance artist throughout Europe, in particular for  Frankfurt Ballet, Carte Blanche and, more recently, Maguy Marin’s dance  company. 

During  the course of his dance career, Pierre Pontvianne has danced the works  of accomplished choreographers such as Jiří Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Hans  van Manen, Johan Inger, William Forsythe, Tony Rizzi, Amanda Miller and  Maguy Marin, among others.

In  2012, he took over the direction of the French-based company PARC to  develop his personal work. Currently, a number of his creations are  touring in several international dance festivals throughout Europe.

Source: Company's website

More information: http://www.compagnieparc.com

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

PARC is co-founded in 2004 by Émilie Tournaire, Pierre Treille and himself. Collaboration, meeting, dialogue are all words that come to the choreographer to talk about his work.

Nourished by an academic training, Pierre Pontvianne likes to dismantle it, to take an interest in the human, the living, the sensitive. Through the different creations of the company, it's the singularity of artist who is revealed. Pierre Pontvianne does not enter any trend, he is out of format, out of diagrams. He develops his work in a slow process of maturation, he likes the idea of timelessness, the idea that a work continues on the time of a life. He likes the idea of fidelity (...) that he puts to work by working with faithful accomplices who cross and re-cross his path according to the projects.

Source: V. Vanier

More information: http://www.compagnieparc.com