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Interview with Régine Chopinot
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Chopinot on Chopinot
In February 2012, Régine Chopinot agreed to take part in a filmed interview. Looking back on her thirty-year career, but still firmly rooted in her present work, she gives us an honest insight into her world, with plenty of humour and sensitivity.
In this extract, Régine Chopinot talks about the name, about the concept of “no” and of “yes”. She also discusses the trance, axis and atlas, a clown’s hat, a ternary rhythm and experimentation…
With extracts from :
AXIS (2009)
A film by Chopinot Garcia ; With Virge Derwinn Josef L’Homme Kenny Taïwo Suzanne Dany Anne Frank Luc Claire Jade Valérie Philippe ; Music Couperin, Les Barricades mystérieuses, Europa Galante, dir. Fabio Biondi
APPEL D’AIR / HALLEY’S COMET (1981)
Choreography Régine Chopinot ; Performers Régine Chopinot, Michèle Prélonge, Véronique Ros de la Grange ; Live Music Graham Fox (saxophone) ; Created at theThéâtre Les Ateliers, Lyon, 23-24 June 1981
INDEPENDANCE N°1 (2010)
A Film by Chopinot Garcia ; Sound Nicolas Barillot ; Performance Régine Chopinot ; Image João Garcia ; Production Cornucopiae, the Independent Dance – Coproduction Festival Montpellier Danse 2010 – With the help of CulturesFrance ; Created at the Chapelle de la Miséricorde, in the Montpellier Danse Festival, 25-29 June 2010
Updating: March 2013
