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Dans Shantala Shivalingappa, il y a Shiva, dieu de la danse. Shiva  possède d’après les textes plus de mille noms. Il est un dieu créateur  et destructeur. Seigneur des lieux de crémations, il se recouvre le  corps de cendres. Shantala Shivalingappa a construit sa danse sur la  figure de ce dieu, dont la vibration, rythme la manifestation du monde.

J’ai demandé à Shantala si elle voulait faire l’expérience de la  cendre. La cendre n’est pas uniquement les résidus solides d’une  combustion parfaite, elle est un processus. La cendre est un  fertilisant. Elle s’inscrit dans un cycle de mort et de naissance. La  cendre possède ainsi une potentialité de vie. Est-ce pour cela qu’elle  est sacrée en Inde, que les champs de crémations possèdent une énergie  particulière, que vie et mort sont une seule chose dans le cycle des  réincarnations ? Que fait Shiva ? Il détruit et il danse.

J’ai rencontré Shantala Shivalingappa en 2008, dans les couloirs du  théâtre, à Düsseldorf chez Pina Bausch. C’était le dernier festival  « Drei wochen mit Pina ». Shantala dansait avec Pina Bausch dans Nefes,  elle présentait également un solo et aussi un duo avec Sidi Larbi  Cherkaoui. C’est là que Shantala a vu Plus ou moins l’infini. Il s’est  passé dans ce lieu une forte convergence, qui me paraît presque irréelle  tant elle a réuni d’éléments qui allaient être significatifs dans mon  parcours et dans celui de Shantala. Quelque chose allait mourir ici et  quelque chose d’autre allait renaître.

La danse de Shantala est faite de ce parcours entre le Kuchipudi et  Pina Bausch, entre l’Inde et l’Europe, entre Shiva et Dionysos dont  d’aucuns disent qu’ils sont issus d’un seul et même dieu, Shiva ayant  été perpétué dans la mythologie hindoue alors que Dionysos, balayé par  les cultes monothéistes était délaissé peu à peu en Europe, dieu errant,  dieu du théâtre. Shantala n’a de cesse de réaliser des allers-retours  entre Madras où elle est née et Paris où elle vit. Sa danse effectue un  balancier perpétuel, quelque part entre mystique hindoue et physique  quantique.

J’ai imaginé que Shantala Shivalingappa allait danser sur de la  cendre pour aSH, dont le titre est composé des initiales et des finales  de son nom. aSH est le dernier opus de la trilogie des portraits de  femme, dix ans après l’avoir initiée, cette même année 2008 avec  Questcequetudeviens? et poursuivie en 2012 avec Plexus. Dans cette  trilogie où je prends comme point de départ, non pas l’espace qui est ma  question au théâtre, mais une femme, une personne qui a son histoire.  Il s’agit d’un être vivant qui se déploie par la danse. Avec aSH,  Shantala Shivalingappa danse au-delà d’elle-même. Dans un dispositif de  cendres et de vibrations, elle incarne Shiva qui permet au monde de se  manifester et à l’espace de danser.

Aurélien Bory • Sept. 2017


Source : Site de la Compagnie 111

Plus d'information : www.cie111.com

Bory, Aurélien

Aurélien Bory was born in Colmar in 1972. His studies in physics in Strasbourg led him to the field of architectural acoustics.  He then ended his scientific curriculum in 1995.  He settled in Toulouse where he joined the creative studio at the Lido, the Circus Arts Centre. In 1998, he played in Theatre Tattoo's "L'Odyssée" directed by Mladen Materic.  In 2000 he founded Compagnie 111 with actor Olivier Alenda.  He then conceived and began the six-year-long space trilogy project, in collaboration with Phil Soltanoff, including "IJK", "Plan B" and "Plus ou moins l'infini" (More or less, Infinity).
In 2003 he directed Pierre Rigal in his first solo creation Erection, the stem of their ungoing collaboration, which also originated their second work together: Arrêts de Jeu premiered in 2006. Merging various other fields, he created "Taoub" in 2004 in Tangier with twelve moroccan acrobats, this very show will launch the international career of the Groupe acrobatique de Tanger (Tangier Acrobatic Group).  In 2008 Aurélien was the recipient of the "Créateur sans frontières" (Creator without borders)/ Radio France trophy for his international creations, notably "Les sept planches de la ruse" (The seven boards of skill) created in China in 2007 with performers from Dalian. In 2008 and 2009, he conceived two creations: "Questcequetudeviens?", a portrait of a woman, and "Sans Objet", a piece for an industrial robot. His creations include different artistic fields : theatre, circus, dance, visual arts, music...  His genre-crossing approach is inscribed within the question of space and is explored through his distinctive scenography. In 2016, he created "ESPÆCE" based on the French writer Georges Perec 's work, at the Festival d'Avignon (France).


Source: Company 111 's website ; Plan Bey 's press file


More information : cie111.com

Shivalingappa, Shantala

Born in Madras, India, brought up in Paris, Shantala is the child of east and west.

She grew up in a world filled with dance and music, initiated at a tender age by her mother, dancer Savitry Nair. Deeply moved and inspired by Master Vempati Chinna Satyam’s pure and graceful style, Shantala dedicated herself to Kuchipudi, and received an intense and rigorous training from her master.

Driven by a deep desire to bring Kuchipudi to the western audience, she has performed in important festivals and theatres, earning praise and admiration from all.

Acclaimed as a rare dancer by artists and connoisseurs in India and Europe, Shantala combines a perfect technique with flowing grace and a very fine sensitivity. Since the age of 13, she also had the privilege of working with some of the greatest artists of our times: Maurice Béjart (“1789…et nous”), Peter Brook (for whom she played Miranda in “The Tempest” and Ophelia in “Hamlet”), Bartabas (“Chimère”), Pina Bausch (“O Dido”, “Néfès”, and “Bamboo Blues), Amagatsu (“Ibuki”). Such experiences make her artistic journey a truly unique one.

Today, Shantala shares her time between touring, expanding her choreographic work in the Kuchipudi style, and collaborating with various artists in the exploration of dance, music and theatre.

Some of these collaborations are: “Play” (2010), a duet with dancer-choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, “Nineteen Mantras” (2012), a modern opera inspired by hindu myths, directed by Giorgio Barberi Corsetti and for which Shantala created the choreography; “Peer Gynt”  (2012) directed by Irina Brook for the Salzburg Festival, in which Shantala was acting, dancing, and singing.

In 2013, Shantala was awarded the prestigious “Bessie” dance award in New York City for Shiva Ganga, for Outstanding Performance.

In 2014, she performed in “AM I”, the latest piece by Sydney-based “Shaun Parker & Company” at the Sydney Opera House, with a cast of 13 Australian dancers and musicians.

She also created “Blooming” at the Vail International Dance Festival, a short duet with Charles ‘Lil Buck’ Riley, a wizard in jookin’, a street-dance style from Memphis, Tennessee.

Her latest collaborations have both been in Barcelona and closely weaving together movement and music. First Impro-Sharana, with the Catalan singer Ferran Savall, and four of his musical accomplices, and most recently, « We Women » with Sol Pico, Julie Dossavi and Minako Seki.


Source : Shantala Shivalingappa Company 's website


More information : shantalashivalingappa.com

Plasson, Fabien

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

aSH

Artistic direction / Conception : Aurélien Bory

Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Taïcyr Fadel

Choreography : Shantala Shivalingappa

Interpretation : Shantala Shivalingappa

Stage direction : Aurélien Bory

Set design : Aurélien Bory

Live music : Loïc Schild

Lights : Arno Veyrat, Mallory Duhamel

Costumes : Manuela Agnesini, Nathalie Trouvé

Settings : Pierre Dequivre, Stéphane Chipeaux-Dardé

Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Compagnie 111 – Aurélien Bory

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Maison de la Danse de Lyon - Fabien Plasson, 2020

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