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Mammame
When Raul Ruiz was resident guest artist at the Maison de la Culture de Grenoble in 1984, he wanted to film the work of the “in-house artists” – Georges Lavaudant for drama, Gérard Maimone for music and me for dance. Strangely enough, he admitted that he was quite disconcerted by the new stage phenomenon that was contemporary dance. I remember that he then immersed himself in American musical comedies. I had spoken to him about them, and he knew that they had inspired me. In 1985, to direct the film “Mammame” based on my choreography, he had the idea of creating the “ambiance” of his scenery himself – an enclosed space made by partitions which could be altered for different sequences to become either a corridor, a bedroom or a storage room.
Jean-Claude Gallotta
