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Une danse blanche avec Eliane
2006
This short dance takes the form of a project led by a young man on a nightly dream up game. Gestures have the sweetness of simple words whispered in his ear.
A solo created on January 4th 1980 for the preview gala of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, inspired by the Suite pour Violes, Sous la Blafarde and Danses Blanches.
Recrea ted by Sylvie Giron, on June 13th 2000 for the Nuits des 20 Ans (20th Anniversary Nights) at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon.
Source: 2006 – 2007 season programme
About Une Danse Blanche avec Eliane / Transmission in winter 2000
In 1980, Dominique Bagouet created Une Danse Blanche avec Eliane for the preview evening of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon.
This work was made up of three extracts from older choreographies, replayed for the occasion in another relationship to space and music and thus, inevitably, to interpretation.
In 2000, for the gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Maison de la Danse, I received a proposal to revive this dance with Eliane Lencot, musician and original partner of the work.
This was an ideal opportunity to take stock of a universe dear to me and in which I had worked for a long time.
We also toured this solo/duo in Matière Première in 2002.
Quite naturally, I believed it was time to transmit this work to today’s dancers, as it has something that is fundamentally human, rigorous and playful all at the same time.
Rigorous in writing, dance asserts itself as a language in its own right.
Playful for the place given to the interpreter.
Source: Sylvie Giron, November 2005 (CCN – Ballet de Lorraine programme)
