Catherine Diverrès : "Quartiers d'été"

The extract chosen here shows a duet between Thierry Baë and Marie-Hélène Mortureux, followed by a solo by Bernardo Montet, with whom Catherine D. shares, at the head of the Studio DM Company, the development of an already highly-skilled choreography.

Catherine Diverrès : summer quarters at the CNDC, A,gers, 1986

The CNDC in Angers is a training centre. Its working spaces and accommodation are deserted with the arrival of summer. In 1985, director Michel Reilhac made them available to emerging dance companies. On one condition: there was to be a public performance of the work in progress. Catherine Diverrès took advantage of this arrangement in the summer of ‘86. She put the finishing touches to her piece “L’arbitre des Elegances”. The extract chosen here shows a duet between Thierry Baë and Marie-Hélène Mortureux, followed by a solo by Bernardo Montet, with whom Catherine Diverrès shares, at the head of the Studio DM Company, the development of an already highly-skilled choreography. An easy theatricality draws upon a torn interiority, where a space of upheaval is hollowed out. Its motifs show themselves in palpitation, anarchic force, outbursts or setting up of symbols. This bitter dance connects the body to disturbing memories, buried feelings, in a composition that is not afraid of halts, feverish energy, interruptions or losing control. Here, nothing is linear.

Gérard Mayen

Credits

enregistré le 17 juillet 1986 dans les studios Bodinier du CNDCchorégraphie Catherine Diverrèsinterprétation Marion Baë, Thierry Baë, Bernardo Montetproduction CNDC Angers