50 ans de danse

This work of choreography, created following “Flip Book” and “Roman photo,” is based on the same principle: namely staging the photographs from David Vaughan’s book, Merce Cunningham, Fifty Years.

This work of choreography, created following “Flip Book” and “Roman photo,” is based on the same principle: namely staging the photographs from David Vaughan’s book, Merce Cunningham, Fifty Years. The procedure adopted consists in creating a succession of scenes following the chronological order of the book and reproducing all the positions captured by the camera lens. Thus retracing Cunningham’s chronology, these three performances reflect our perception of Cunningham’s dance derived from a source of static images. Boris Charmatz invited former dancers from Cunningham’s company to set this process in motion in “50 years of dance.” How are their bodies marked by their experience of working with Cunningham? How do they approach the photographs of Cunningham’s performances in which they themselves took part? The film clip reveals the wealth of choreographic writing which unfolds according to the rule of the work’s construction, and the juxtaposition of dance photographs and snapshots of moments of work, or even of everyday life, taken from the book. It shows how these dancers invest a basic material in order to propose an extrapolation through movement.

Source : site internet Boris Charmatz

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