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Combat de Carnaval et Carême / Batailles [transmission 2024]
A choreographic extract remodelled by the group À l’abordage, coordinator Anne Lucas, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme 2023/2024 (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
Transmission by Olivia Grandville, choreographer, Sylvain Riéjou, performer in the first production.
Presented on 15 June 2024, Le Manège de Reims.
The piece when it was created
Combat de Carnaval et Carême
Firstly produced 18 January 2016 at the Lieu Unique, Centre de culture contemporaine de Nantes
Choreography: Olivia Grandville
Work for ten performers: Bryan Campbell, Konan Dayot, Tatiana Julien, Gaspard Guilbert, Maximin Marchand (chant), Aurélie Mazzeo, Martina Musilova, Sylvain Riéjou, Asha Thomas, Lise Vermot
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Hood
Original duration: 1h20
The group
À l’abordage (Rennes, Bretagne)
Since 2017, À l’abordage, based in Rennes and hosted by Réservoir danse, has been made up of adult amateurs who, once a week, share in the creative process the creative process of guest artists and discover different choreographic universes.
Curious about artistic experiences (approaches, writing, career paths, performances…), this group of twelve people expressed the desire to go through a creative process and work with a choreographer over a longer period of time. So they gathered their expectations around an extract from Olivia Grandville’s Combat de Carnaval et Carême already renamed Batailles for a reduced version.
The project
Originally created in 2016, the 50-minute Combat de Carnaval et Carême referred to the eponymous painting by Bruegel the Elder, which offers a wide range of postures. The iconographic inspiration already made it possible to explore the relationship between pictorial art and dance as part of the cultural action component. The group also wanted to explore a particular creative process at work in this piece, with each performer receiving his or her score of gestures and instructions live via earphones. This unprecedented form of improvisation dictated the will of the group, led for the occasion by Sylvain Riéjou, performer of the original creation. Condensed to 15 minutes, the piece remains faithful to some of its original intentions, while adapting to the specific qualities of the 12 amateur-rices.
