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Burles-romaines
Création 1984
The departure of Viola Farber before the end of her contract at the CNDC sounded in a phase of transition in 1983. Members of her company took over the daily running of the establishment. In this context, the film ‘Burles romaines’ marks the characteristic interplay between American and French aesthetic influences.
Didier Deschamps and Claire Verlet, members of Viola Farber’s European company, collaborated with her in the choreography of ‘Burles romaines’. The cast includes dance students from the third and last classes taught by the American choreographer at Angers. Filming took place in Paris, in the “Ménagerie de Verre”, an independent dance studio complex which had just opened and would soon become emblematic of the French “Nouvelle danse” movement, which was trying to take its fate into its own hands. In front of the cameras, the dancers explored every nook and cranny of the building. With their resourceful teamwork and compliance with the performance space, and with their movements borrowed from the advertising style of the time, the dancers of this intriguing production heralded the choreographic mood which was to appear in the years to come.
Source: Gérard Mayen
