Made in Strasbourg

A site specific performance for 99 amateurs and 5 professional dancers

Made in… Serie is a mass-performance choreography exploring spacial constructions seeking to reveal and explore specific architectures of chosen sites or spaces.Made in… Series is a portrait of a city, a human landscape, a moving architecture, the mapping of a site. Created for both interior or exterior spaces, and taking into account a passing public, the piece is a series of presentations in the performance site. Through its accessibility, the piece encourages as great a number of non-professionals as possible to participate in a choreographic work. In doing so, the piece is inherently connected to its city and inhabitants.This project, developed as part of Joanne Leighton’s residence at Pole Sud in 2010, is an in-situ performance for 5 professional dancers and 99 amateurs, performed at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (MAMCS). The work process enabled the participants to immerse themselves in the act of creation of a unique work, linked to the MAMCS.Made in… is inspired by Land Art and through an exploration of questions of the quality of movement and the perception and mapping of space, Joanne and her dancers developed choreographic material accessible to a large number of non-dancers and amateurs. A sound score composed by Peter Crosbie and a scenography of large inflatable structures that introduce notions of weight and weightlessness help establish and define the performance space.Made in Strasbourg is the first of this project, which will be recreated in different sites, contexts or towns, for example, museums and galleries, or urban spaces, such as parks or squares, under the name of Made in … Made in Strasbourg is the first creation by Joanne Leighton since being nomminated has directress of the CCNFCB.Already presented are Made in Oldenburg (DE) Made in Centre Pompidou Metz, Made in Charleroi (BE), Made in Vesoul, Made in Ballet de Lorraine, Made in Nancy, Made in Belfort, Made in Freiburg (DE), Made in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Made in Dijon.Choreographer : Joanne LeightonCreated with and alternately performed by Matthieu Bajolet, Massimo Fusco, Marie-Pierre Jaux, Claire LaureauSound design : Peter CrosbieTechnical director Thierry MeyerDuration : 40 minutes (approx.)Production Made in Strasbourg : CCNFCB, Pôle Sud and Velvet ASBL