1080 – Art de la fugue [transmission 2023]

A choreographic extract remodelled by the group Décor Mobile, coordinator Caroline Baudouin, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme 2022/2023 (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

Transmission by Alexandra Damasse, Maud Pizon. 

Presented on 3 June 2023, Le Triangle, Cité de la danse, in Rennes.

The piece when it was created  

1080 – Art de la fugue  

Firstly produced 26 & 27 January 2017 at the Manège, Scène nationale in Reims 

Choreography: Mié Coquempot 

Work for ten performers: Julien Andujar, Jérôme Brabant, Ashley Chen and Jazz Barbé in alternation, Charles Essombe, Alexandra Damasse, Léa Lansade, Philippe Lebhar, Maud Pizon, Nina Vallon, Pascal Saint-André  

Music: Jean-Sébastien Bach, BWV 1080, performed by Evgeni Koroliov  

Original duration: 1h25 

The group 

Created in 2005, Décor Mobile, based in Marne-la-Vallée, is an intergenerational group, made up of dancers from sixteen to sixty-five years of age. It is run by dance teacher Caroline Baudoin, who gives weekly classes and at the same time participates in festivals, such as Entrer dans la danse in Torcy. The group loves to perform together in places such as multimedia libraries and parks. Figures such as researcher Sophie Jacotot and choreographers like Nadine Beaulieu and Radhouane El Meddeb have created, or recreated pieces for the group. This is the third time Décor Mobile has participated in the Amateur Dance and Repertoire programme. 

The project 

Having performed an extract from Georges Appaix’s work Antiquités in 2009, and one from Doris Humphrey’s Ritmo Jondo in 2017, the dancers have now chosen a very different piece by Mié Coquempo, whom they met in 2011. 1080 – Art de la fugue, created in 2017 to the music of Bach, stands out for the breadth and power of its choreography. The dancers were also drawn to the interplay between precision and improvisation in the piece. The group worked with four experts on Mié Coquempot’s style: musician Roméo Agid, and dancers Jérôme Andrieu, Alexandra Damasse and Maud Pizon.