Jours étranges, reprise 2016

My work of sharing the contemporary dance repertoire comes from a very simple desire. A desire to transmit and re-interpret a creation to reveal something new and different. With Jours Etranges, I wanted to teach the dancers the meticulously written choreography of Bagouet but at the same time allow them to find freedom within this writing. Supported by the attentive work of the dancers, lighting engineer, musician and costume designer, it is the show itself which is put to work. 

Jours Etranges was created around 5 songs by the Doors from their album Strange Days. The show brings into play different choreographic situations in which Dominique Bagouet was trying to « unlearn » a set of skills which he could not shake at the time. The result is both burlesque and poetic. The structure of the show is precise, but the content is directly linked to the quality of the dancers.

Six women for Jours Etranges. 

For this re-creation I only looked for experimented dancers, but I wanted a cast who was different and somehow missing from the original creation. Therefore, to challenge the original creation, it made sense to hire an exclusively female cast. I believe that this gathering of women, this interpretation and updating of the show gives a new distinctive tone to Jours Etranges

Catherine Legrand, June 2016.

See extracts of the original version of Jours étranges in the catalogue numeridanse : 

http://www.numeridanse.tv/fr/collections/64_collection-bagouet/1197_jours-tranges 

Jours étranges, re-creation 2016

« My work of sharing the contemporary dance repertoire comes from a very simple desire. A desire to transmit and re-interpret a creation to reveal something new and different. With Jours étranges, I wanted to teach the dancers the meticulously written choreography of Bagouet but at the same time allow them to find freedom within this writing. Supported by the attentive work of the dancers, lighting engineer, musician and costume designer, it is the show itself which is put to work. 

Jours étranges was created around 5 songs by the Doors from their album Strange Days. The show brings into play different choreographic situations in which Dominique Bagouet was trying to « unlearn » a set of skills which he could not shake at the time. The result is both burlesque and poetic. The structure of the show is precise, but the content is directly linked to the quality of the dancers.

Six women for Jours étranges. 

For this re-creation I only looked for experimented dancers, but I wanted a cast who was different and somehow missing from the original creation. Therefore, to challenge the original creation, it made sense to hire an exclusively female cast. I believe that this gathering of women, this interpretation and updating of the show gives a new distinctive tone to Jours étranges»

Catherine Legrand, June 2016.

See extracts of the original version of Jours étranges in the catalogue numeridanse : 

http://www.numeridanse.tv/fr/collections/64_collection-bagouet/1197_jours-tranges