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Passeurs de danse
From post-war years to the 60’s, great teachers and choreographers trained several current dancers. Transmission, passage from a body to another, are shot in a network of dialogues, rehearsals and archive documents.
From the post-war period to the 1960s, leading teachers and choreographers trained many of today’s dancers. Christine Brunel, Marilen Breuker and Luc Petton asked Karin Waehner, Jacqueline Robinson and Dominique Dupuy, respectively, to transmit to them one of their solos. This act of transmission, the passage from one body to another, is filmed in an interweaving of dialogues, rehearsals and archive documents.
This film highlights the meaning and the stakes of dance transmission, while painting the portrait of artists. Digging into their memories and seeking the physical sensations of that time, each choreographer revives their dance in another body, in different ways. Christine Brunel in L’oiseau qui n’existe pas by Karin Waehner (1963), Marilen Breuker in Stèle, a tribute to Mary Wigman, by Jacqueline Robinson (1969), and Luc Petton in En vol (1983) by Dominique Dupuy show both the particularity of the work of each choreographer and their filiations, especially with the German expressionist dance of Mary Wigman.
Source : Irène Filiberti
