Rien ne laisse présager de l'état de l'eau [transmission 2016]

Extrait remonté par le groupe Trajectoires (Caen), responsable artistique Florence Divert Issembourg, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2015)

A creation by Odile Duboc and Françoise Michel
An extract remodelled by the group Trajectoires (Caen), artistic manager Florence Divert Issembourg, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2015) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
The group Trajectoires brings together eight young girls and five adults with the same desire to further and chisel complex body states. Based in Caen (Calvados) and directed by Florence Divert Issembourg, the group advocates openness, a sense of sharing and the joy of working together by tackling all the facets nurturing a dance show, from music to painting not to mention texts. 

The project
The desire to plunge into Odile Duboc’s choreographic material and writing is stimulated by the fact that she had a profound influence on Florence Divert Issembourg’s dancing career. The latter was won over by the former’s pleasure in transmitting, her generosity and the way with which she inspired trust in her interpreters. She also appreciated Odile Duboc’s richness of vocabulary and finesse. When she discovered the piece Rien ne laisse présager de l’état de l’eau, in 2007, she decided to renew and share her passion with her students. Blandine Minot-Stora was the person who transmitted the various show materials. 

The choreographer
A key figure of French contemporary dance, a choreographer and pedagogue, Odile Duboc (1941-2010) founded her company Contrejour in 1983 with her associate and light designer Françoise Michel. Between 1990 and 2008, she directed the Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté, Belfort. Out of her flagship shows, the following should be cited: Insurrection (1989), Projet de la matière (1993) with the visual artist Marie-Josée Pillet, Trois Boléros (1996), Rien ne laisse présager de l’état de l’eau (2005), to name but a few. Each of her shows is created in close collaboration with Françoise Michel. Over time, she has developed a profound and organic set of gestures in relation with water, air, earth and fire. Her sense of gentle abstraction is driven by a strange physical density and a precise knowledge of the body. A pedagogue who loves to share, she has federated the energies of interpreters and choreographers such as Boris Charmatz, Emmanuelle Huynh, Alban Richard, and Brigitte Asselineau.