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Grand écart - à propos de la danse contemporaine française (with french subtitles)
Charles Picq’s landscape of french contemporary dance since the 80’s.
Charles Picq has concocted a choreographic overview of the last twenty years, reviewing the work of Maguy Marin, Bouvier-Obadia, Régine Chopinot, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Dominique Bagouet, Mathilde Monnier, Michel Kelemenis, etc. While we understand his approach, from an historical standpoint, the choice of artists, whether or not those filmed are interviewed, and the blank concerning the new generation of artists, leave us perplexed.
Luckily, the words of Mathilde Monnier and Maguy Marin are sufficiently generous and impassioned to let us want to discover what the dance of the year 2000 is like. However, when Charles Picq shows us a short extract from a show by Käfig, he mentions nothing about its opinion of hip hop dance, preferring to let Karine Saporta speak. Boris Charmatz, the sole representative of his generation, has the good taste not to pose as the champion of the succession: “We don’t need to be rebels to propose real breaks, new suggestions.” An interesting counterpoint to the words of Régine Chopinot concerning the difficulty facing young people to create today: “It’s not easy to be noticed today as we were in our time when all was still to be discovered. That’s the catastrophe: it’s all been done.” And we feel that Charles Picq would not be reluctant to share this opinion.
Source : Fabienne Arvers
