Meublé sommairement

Weaving text and dance, so sweet fusion, a little to the Cage-Cunningham, which sometimes hits the dance narrative, sometimes they do not know, sometimes it shows.

Choreography: Dominique Bagouet

The plan to create “Meublé sommairement” appears to me now to have resulted from a sum of several desires.

Some of them, namely the ones about choreography, performers, or music, had at the outset no purpose at all, and seemed separated by different motives.

Emmanuel Bove’s text, “Aftalion, Alexandre”, made everything fit.

So first came the essential, emotional choice of Emmanuel Bove as the author, the choice of his anti-dramatic and anti-spectacular text, this sort of ode to the ordinary, with seemingly ordinary human beings whose carefully deciphered behaviours first look so strange, so obsessional and by this very fact so moving because they are tragic in such a normal way.

It is no accident that one feels attracted by this text; it’s a question of desire for hearing it accompanied by some dance, some music, with its meaning not particularly illustrated but rather felt, smelt, accompanied, first very gently, only for its musical qualities, like a first visible layer of apprehension, and then due to this very distance, the text’s sound and story are given their right place.

Sources: Dominique Bagouet, “Programme of the Bagouet Company” – July 1989

Credits

Choreography: Dominique Bagouet

From the text by Emmanuel Bove “Aftalion, Alexandre”

Duration: 22′

Dancers: Dominique Bagouet, Hélène Cathala, Jean-Charles di Zazzo, Sylvie Giron, Olivia Grandville, Catherine Legrand, Orazio Massaro, Fabrice Ramalingom and Nelly Borgeaud (actress).

Assistant: Anne Abeille

Music: Raymond Boni played live by Raymond Boni and Geneviève Sorin

Scenery: Dominique Bagouet

Stage lighting: Serge Dées

Costumes: Dominique Fabrègue

Direction: Charles Picq

Production: Les Carnets Bagouet

Date of creation: July 10th 1989, Cour Jacques Coeur at Montpellier

Performance recorded in July 9th and 10th 1989, Cour Jacques Coeur at Montpellier

Last update: December 2012