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Jean-Claude Gallotta - Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble
Gathering dancers, actors, composers and scenographer, Jean-Claude Gallotta has created his own mythologies and developed an universe where dance has a dominant part.
Jean-Claude Gallotta encountered dance somewhat by chance. Over time, bringing together dancers, actors, composer and scenographer, he has created his own mythologies and developed a universe in which dance takes pride of place. Abstract, it remains a game close to childhood that permits every invention.
On the occasion of the revival of Docteur Labus, that “love doctor” imagined in 1988, the choreographer returns to the genesis of the work and the invention of its title: the show consists of four duos who describe the state of the amorous bodies, their “music” and their adventurous life. Gallotta lays out his conception of dance and situates its issues around the secrets and fears of the body. Once this field has been opened to the infinite combinations (the intimate, emotions, passion, solitude and the collective), he has to find followers and arrange his approach so that each of his works acts like a dream catalyst. This is what he tries to do here by working with new interpreters.
Source : Irène Filiberti
This collection dedicated to contemporary French choreographers is presented as a series of encounters around a creation. These portraits, which alternate interviews and extracts from performances, propose an approach to dance through thought and the issues of the body, while making visible the link existing between reflection and representation.
In the early 1980s, a new generation of choreographers emerged on the French scene. Occupying theatres with a radically different conception of dance, they won over a public and ensured their work and ideas would last. Today, most of them direct a national choreographic centre (CCN) or a recognised company. In the course of their career or in their work processes, they all ask questions linked to the world – whether focused on the body, writing, dance components (in particular space and time) or the relationship to other artistic forms.
Angelin Preljocaj – Centre chorégraphique national d’Aix-en-Provence (1996)
Catherine Diverrès – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne (1996)
Charles Cré-Ange, compagnie Cré-Ange (1997)
Claude Brumachon – Centre chorégraphique national de Nantes (1998)
Jean-Claude Gallotta – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (1996)
Josef Nadj – Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans (1997)
Mathilde Monnier – Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier (1998)
Odile Duboc – Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté (1997)
Philippe Decouflé, compagnie DCA (1998)
Régine Chopinot – Centre chorégraphique national de La Rochelle/Poitou-Charentes (1998)