Les Carnets Bagouet

The association Les Carnets Bagouet was created shortly after the death of Dominique Bagouet on December 9 1992.

The choreographer had been directing the national choreographic centre of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon for twelve years. His early death aroused the desire among his company’s dancers to take the responsibility of the heritage left by the choreographer.

–       To think about the means to be developed in order to spread Bagouet’s work, pedagogy, and style in a faithful and lively way, and to think about perpetuating his approach.

–       To make of it an active heritage by carrying on showings of his works through stage productions as much as through training of future dancers.

–       To contribute to organize a reflection on the notion of choreographic heritage, through a collective study and using the experiences of every one, as performers of Dominique Bagouet and as contemporary dancers in general who then become ‘passers’ according to Laurence Louppe.

Yet, the members of the Carnets Bagouet artistic board do not want to preserve the choreographic repertoire in the traditional sense of the word, they rather want to pass on to the present contemporary dancers, and wherever it will be requested, this ‘state of mind’, this ‘changing thinking’, and the traces left in them by Dominique Bagouet’s dance.

French and foreign dance companies and students in training centres have already rerun some plays since 1993. Complete plays or extracts, shows or simple workshops, they have all allowed the dancers who have taken charge of passing on to refine their approach, and also to perceive more clearly the real issue of this work and its difficulties, always keeping in mind the words the choreographer used to say to his performers:  ‘live in peace with yourself’.

The team of the Carnets Bagouet

Sources: www.lescarnetsbagouet.org

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Last update: October 2014