Compagnie 7273
NICOLAS CANTILLON & LAURENCE YADI / 7273 COMPANY
After working as a singer-guitarist, Nicolas Cantillon studied dance at the Marius Petipa Conservatory in 1989. Laurence Yadi, began her training in 1993 at the Alvin Ailey Centre in New York. Following their respective training, they participated in a myriad of works as performers and as choreographic assistants, occasionally in the same structures, in particular in the Ballet Jazz Art in Paris and in the Geneva company, Alias, with Gisela Rocha and Rui Horta.
In 2003, they created the 7273 Company and presented their first piece of work, “La Vision du lapin”, which is a mise en abîme of performance codes. In 2004, “Simple proposition”, which developed research on the duo and on the fragmentation of movement, inspired the short film “Durée determinée”, which the choreographers produced in 2005 with Frédéric Lombard and Jennifer Bonn. Their work “Climax”, presented in 2006, established the vocabulary and the grammar for choreographic writing that emphasized the fluidity of movement and continuous wording. The company was awarded the Fondation Lietchi pour les Arts prize for this work.
In 2007, they created “On stage” and then “Merry-go-round” for the dancers from the Junior Ballet of Geneva, before moving on to a trilogy on the links that exist between dance and the American folk music of the 70s, with “Laï laï laï laï” (2008) and “Listen & Watch” (2009) in concert. Next came “Romance-s” (2009) and “Figure 5” (2010). The two choreographers split their work between France and Switzerland and have, to present, signed around a dozen pieces, including a new version of “Petrouchka” in October 2011 for the Ballet of the Grand Theatre of Geneva, as part of the Russian Ballet Evenings hosted by the Opera of Geneva. “Nil” is their latest creation (January 2011). Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon were awarded the 2011 Swiss Prize for Dance and Choreography.
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Updated : January 2012