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Ellipse [transmission 2020]
An extract remodelled by the group Atelier 21, coordination by Pascale Brient, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2019/2020) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).
Transmission by Elisabetta Areri, Benjamin Lamarche, performers in the piece when it was created
Presented on 24 October 2020, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (Paris).
The piece when it was created
Ellipse
Firstly produced 18 January 2006 at the Centre chorégraphique national in Nantes
Choreography: Claude Brumachon
Piece for six performers: Vincent Blanc, Claude Brumachon, Roxana Del Castillo, Lise Fassier, Elisabetta Gareri, Benjamin Lamarche
Music Bill Callahan, « Rouleaux sur l’atlantique », « A River Ain’t Too Much To Love » ; Paul Flynn, « Face the Music » ; Magda, « The Black Room » ; DJ Krush, « Kakusei » ; Richard D.James, « Drukqs » ; Sigur Ros, « Von » ; Bumcello, « Nude for Love » ; Darius Keeler, « Londinium » ; Sigur Ros, « Agaetis Byrjum » ; Robert Wyatt, « Rock Bottom »
Original duration: 1 hour
The group
Atelier 21 (Lussac-lès-Châteaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine)
Atelier 21 of the Lussac-lès-Châteaux MJC is made up of eight amateur dancers regularly practicing contemporary dance. Working regularly on creative projects with various choreographers (Odile Azagury, Barbara Blanchet, Laurent Falguiéras), such as ”Le Festin de soi” in 2014-2015, they also seek to revive repertoire pieces, such as Régine Chopinot’s ”Végétal” for the Danse en amateur et repertoire programme.
The project
Written in a very short time, with a feeling of urgency, Claude Brumachon’s ”Ellipse” breaks with most of his choreographic works: with no decors and with no narrative argument other than the presence of the bodies moving around the stage, ”Ellipse” tends towards an abstraction made of outbursts of sensuality or violence that circulate within the group of dancers. Alternating between collective frenzy, and solo or duo moments, the group moves apart, reforms, observes, waits, in a game of to-and-fro between meticulous writing and freedom of invention.
