Dance company L'Éventail
Artistic direction: Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre
Creation: 1985
Encouraged by Francine Lancelot L’Éventail Dance Company was founded in 1985 by Marie-Geneviève Massé and Bernard Delattre. From 1985 to 2000 the company was installed in the Paris region, thereof four seasons in residence at the Espace Carpeaux de Courbevoie. Since 2001, with its relocation in Sablé sur Sarthe, the company life has radically changed. In 2004 it receives the status of “compagnie conventionnée” – registered company – by the Ministry of Culture of the region Pays de la Loire (DRAC).
L’Éventail Dance Company is recognized as an essential reference point in the domain of Baroque Dance. Apart from contributing actively to the discovery of the richness and the vitality of this art form as well as to the spreading of the French choreographic culture the company shows a creative audacity: parting from roots of the past it initiates innovation and does not follow but blazes a trail.
The company develops two complementary intentions connecting memory and innovation, past and modernity with creations or reruns of choreographies in the spirit of the 17th and 18th century like (Don Juan by Gluck, Le Carnaval et la Folie opera-ballet by Destouches, Les Petits Riens by Mozart, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac comédie-ballet by Molière et Lully…) as well as the conception of original performances in baroque esthetic but with a contemporary concept like (Voyage en Europe, The Four Seasons, Metamorphosis)
Consisting of around twenty dancers, an acrobat, a marionette player and technicians, l’Éventail Dance Company cooperates regularly with international costume designers, musicians.
Source: L’Éventail Dance Company ‘s website
