About cinema

Régine Chopinot talks about cinema in this extract

Chopinot on Chopinot (2012)

In February 2012, Régine Chopinot agreed to take part in a filmed interview.

Looking back on her thirty-year career, but still firmly rooted in her present work, she gives us an honest insight into her world, with plenty of humour and sensitivity.

In this extract, Régine Chopinot talks about cinema, memory and the mirror. She also discusses detonators, basements, modesty, an ambush, as well as a political intimity and an unfiltered collective heritage…

With extracts from:

ANA (1990)

Choreography Régine Chopinot ; Performers John Bateman, Joanna Blake, Jeannette-Carol Brooks, Boris Charmatz, Philippe Combes, Bertrand Davy, Jacqueline Fischer, Georgette Louison Kala-Lobe, Myriam Lebreton, Anne-Karine Lescop, Samuel Letellier, Maria-Jesus Lorrio, Vojta Pavlicek, Marianne Rachmul, Monet Robier, Manuel Rodriguez, Catherine Savy, Lin-Guang Song, Eric Ughetto ; Costume Jean-Paul Gaultier ; Coproduction Compagnie Chopinot-Centre chorégraphique de Poitou-Charentes, La Coursive-scène nationale La Rochelle, Ville de Lyon avec le concours de la Maison de la danse, Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, L’Hippodrome-CAC de Douai ; Created at La Coursive, La Rochelle, 12-13 October 1990

TRANS(E) (2000)

A film by Sibylle Stürmer ; Choreograph and peformer Régine Chopinot ; Light Régis Montambaux – Engineering Denis Tisseraud, Xavier Carré ; Music Henry Purcell ; Production Ballet Atlantique-Régine Chopinot, Sibylle & Dieter Stürmer

Updating: March 2013