Die Welle (La Vague) [transmission 2020]

An extract remodelled by the 48 performers of the groups that took part in the national encounter “Danse en amateur et repertoire”  (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing). 

Transmission by Marie-Charlotte Chevalier, Sophie Jacotot. Coordination by Marion Bastien. 

Presented on 24 October 2020, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris).  

The piece when it was created  

Die Welle (The Wave) 

Firstly produced: 1930 

Choreography: Albrecht Knust 

Piece for 64 performers  

The project 

”The Wave”, created in Germany in 1930 by Albrecht Knust, one of Rudolf Laban’s earliest collaborators, is a choral dance for sixty-four people. Through waves, ebbs and flows, and ripples, this dance invites us to take part in a collective experience of interrelated listening and tuning by using simple movements such as walking, skipping and pliés. 

The 2020-edition dancers worked on ”The Wave” to bring the French National Encounters of Danse en amateur et répertoire to a close with a collective practice.  

Amateur Dance and Repertory is a companion program to amateur practice beyond the dance class and the technical learning phase. Intended for groups of amateur dancers, it opens a space of sharing for those who wish to deepen a practice and a knowledge of the dance in relation to its history.

Laurent Barré
Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
+33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr

Source: CN D

More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme