Mammame's Childhood
Choreography
This is a choreography written in the style of a fairy tale, with dancers who emerge as real characters, and (something which is relatively rare for dance performances) a real story, that of the imp Schiotto in the company of the Mamammes in a quest to recover the lost spotlight. By creating {l’Enfance de Mammame} in 2002, Jean-Claude Gallotta and his company had set themselves the simple goal of introducing children to the mysteries of contemporary dance. But then the 2010s arrived with their own set of badly understood differences, of dubious combinations, of mindsets considered too diverse to be compatible, and of aggressive communitarianism. And so it is today that{ l’Enfance de Mammame} has been given a new role by the audiences of children or adults, that of a hymn to difference. Over and above the tale and the poetry, the children pick up on the harmony, the fraternity of the artists of all shapes, sizes, ages and skin colours. For their part, the adults (far from the almost ridiculously dangerous sectarianism) understand that there is something nobly political here in that the stage, a product of the imaginary world, gathers around it a republic of young viewers who see coexisting and getting on together as something blindingly obvious to be shared by all. C.-H.B.
Distr>MC2 : Grenoble
Duration 42’00”
Last update 02 September 2015