Andy Goldsworthy

Interview with Régine Chopinot about her work with Andy Goldsworthy

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 nature, collaboration and discomfort. She also discusses oak leaves, the foot, a difference in height, branches…

With an extract from:

VÉGÉTAL (1995)

Choreography: Régine Chopinot; Dancers: Rebecca Adam, Dimitri Chamblas, Guillaume Cuvilliez, Marie-Françoise Garcia, Virginie Garcia, Gilles Imbert, Hiroko Kamimura, Samuel Letellier, Georgette Louison Kala-Lobé, Elodie Pallaro, Esteban Pena Villagran, Jie Peng, Michèle Prélonge, Duke Wilburn; Set design: Andy Goldsworthy; Sound design: Knud Viktor; Filmmaker: Dominique Bauguil; Coproduction: Ballet Atlantique-Régine Chopinot / CCN La Rochelle, La Coursive-scène nationale La Rochelle, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, Festival Sigma, Bordeaux; Performed in: La Coursive-scène nationale, La Rochelle, 6-7 November 1995

Updating: March 2013