Éclats [transmission 2017]

Extrait remonté par Danse in Progress (Noisy-le-Sec), responsable artistique Gwendaël Lemonnier, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2016)

An extract remodelled by Danse in Progress (Noisy-le-Sec), artistic manager Gwendaël Lemonnier, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2016) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
This group of amateurs, set up in 2013, consists of teenagers and young adults aged 14 to 22, also enrolled in the Conservatoire de Danse de Noisy-le-Sec and participating in Gwendaël Lemonnier’s workshop. Their collaborations include a workshop with Dominique Brun during her time at the Théâtre des Bergeries in 2013, and two shows, Sable (2013) and Pygmaïos (2015). 

The project
Taking on the piece Éclats, which is particularly representative of Françoise Dupuy’s rhythmic research, offers the possibility of delving into the notions of improvisation and, through the use of hand drums and a metal plate, the resonance of sound in the body. The work around the relationship in space between oneself and others, and around silence, listening, breathing and pulsation, are also part of this project led by Isabelle Dufau, Françoise Dupuy’s assistant. The transmission to bodies of today of a type of unique energy and aesthetics also forms part of the challenges of this choice. 

The choreographer
A trailblazing personality of modern dance in France since the 1950s, the dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Françoise Dupuy, always inseparable from Dominique Dupuy with whom she has shared sixty-five years of work and thought on choreographic art, devised the piece Éclats in 1975 to music by Jean Schwartz. Inheriting Émile Jaques-Dalcroze’s rhythmical research and Isadora Duncan’s organic freedom, throughout her career she has refined a structured, sensitive and nuanced form of gesture. This artist, a supporter of “confrontational dance” to use Dominique Dupuy’s expression, continues to irrigate the advances of a movement “at the margin of right-thinking dance or fashionable dance.”