Dub Love

Recorded at the CND 2 March 2017

Through the creation of Altered Natives  Say Yes To Another Excess TWERK in September 2012, we met DJs Elijah and  Skilliam from Label Butterz, references in British Grime musical scene.  This unusual musical style is a complex dancehall, hip hop and garage  hybridisation. As all electronic musical styles, it also derives from  Jamaican sound systems – musicwalls which have played since the 1950s a  major role in the evolution of various Jamaican musical styles and  helped develop ska, reggae, ragga, dub…

For Dub Love project, they collaborate  with HIGH ELEMENTS, Dubplates DJ from the Reunion island, who draws from  dub roots in order to create an upbeat solar music, defined by a  tension between deep bass sounds characteristic of dub and bright  melodies. Dub is performed for massive social gatherings in Europe and  Jamaica (Nothing Hill Carnival, One Love Rave Festival) with powerful  sound systems. Their intense vibrations, their physical impact and their  unifying power turned these musical styles into spiritual or even  religious events, going way beyond mere entertainment.
On stage, HIGH ELEMENTS plays Dub sets Dubplates mixes through a sound system.

Along with this musical investigation,  the duet Bengolea-Chaignaud is carrying out a hybrid choreographic  research, from punk bouncing that some early reggae tunes trigger to the  most extreme physical constructions that ballet on pointe allows.  Pointe shoes, as western classical dance fetish, have been used to  challenge gravity and invent an ethereal and celestial body. Outside  classical technique, it is also a fascinating tool, generating speed,  height, balance, unbalance, lines. Confronting on pointe to Jamaican  music, very motivated by a need to go back to basics, to the earth, to  peaceful and brotherly intentions, creates potential tension, a fiction,  to get away from stereotypes related to those cultures. Far from  resurrecting a classical body, the intention to combine on pointe  practice with soft religious dances and violent urban dances. Through  the sound system vibrations, the three bodies thus draw an abstract and  detailed writing. A repertoire of reggae and Dancehall songs will be  performed by three performers, Ana Pi, François Chaignaud and Cecilia  Bengolea together with High Éléments’ mix.

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