L'ombre des jumeaux [transmission 2017]

Extrait remonté par l’Arc contemporain (Strasbourg), responsable artistique Michèle Rust, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2016)

An extract remodelled by L’Arc contemporain (Strasbourg), artistic manager Michèle Rust, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2016) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
The dancer Michèle Rust, Dominique Bagouet’s interpreter, is behind the setting up of this group of amateur adults created in 2011 in Strasbourg. In 2013, she developed the project Clin d’œil à Dominique Bagouet that allowed the dancers to immerse themselves into extracts from three favourite pieces of the choreographer from Montpellier. Also as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme, in 2014-2015, Michèle Rust helped them discover one of Régine Chopinot’s many facets in Sous le signe de Saint Georges. 

The project
Under the leadership of Sylvain Boruel, the interpreter of Michel Kelemenis’ creation for the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin, the choice of L’Ombre des jumeaux (1999) was the result of a desire to explore “the voices of dynamic multiplication”. The treatment of space, the breadth of the choreography, and the speed of changing support, all trimmed with fantasy and humour, were also responsible for this choice. One sequence of the work takes place in silence and offers the possibility of enhancing the listening process, the presence with the other and whetting gestural consciousness.  

The choreographer
The director and initiator of KLAP Maison pour la danse, which opened in Marseille in 2011, Michel Kelemenis, a contemporary scene personality since the 1980s, has woven an artistic path with multiple inspirations supported by a limpid, precise style of writing. Surfing between narration and abstraction, a collaborator with companies such as the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Ballet du Rhin, he has also placed his talent at the service of stage directors such as Klaus-Michaël Grüber and Luc Bondy. A pedagogue, he has set up workshops in a variety of countries, including South Africa, since 1994 and also teaches within higher educational structures.