Passo [transmission 2016]

Extrait remonté par l’Atelier (Fontenay-aux-Roses), responsable artistique Sylvie Horel, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2015)

Choreography by Ambra Senatore
An extract remodelled by l’Atelier (Fontenay-aux-Roses), artistic manager Sylvie Horel, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2015) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
Intergenerational and multidisciplinary, l’Atelier, initiated in 2008 by the association l’Espérance de Fontenay-sous-Bois, brings together eight dancers practicing contemporary, classical and jazz dance, as well as music and theatre. Passionate about meeting people, the group, led by Sylvie Horel, has collaborated with a troupe of disabled actors and dancers. It confronts for the first time the question of the dance repertoire. For its rehearsals it uses the municipal hall of Fontenay-sous-Bois.

The project
Ambra Senatore herself and the dancer Aline Braz da Silva have transmitted to the group a series of extracts from the show Passo in its version for five protagonists, entitled Passo Quintet. The choice of these sequences, which are interpreted by eight dancers, was guided by the desire to preserve the disorder and ambiguity between truth and fiction and between written and improvised score. The dramatic quality, the sense of the unexpected, and the mischievous sense of humour of the choreographer won over the members of l’Atelier, who first and foremost wish to retain the playful and surprise-loving spirit of Ambra Senatore.

The choreographer
At the head of the Centre chorégraphique national de Nantes since 2016, the Italian artist Ambra Senatore made an appearance in France at the festival Repérages in Roubaix in 2005. She made a name for herself with Passo (2010), a parade of brown dolls in disarray, and A Posto (2011), a picnic thriller that comes to a sticky end. Her style, hovering between dance and theatre, plays on elliptical accounts borne aloft by an uneven dance. Also a researcher at Milan University, Ambra Senatore knows only too well how to turn apparently ordinary situations into bursts of outrageous frenzy.

Amateur Dance and Repertory is a companion program to amateur practice beyond the dance class and the technical learning phase. Intended for groups of amateur dancers, it opens a space of sharing for those who wish to deepen a practice and a knowledge of the dance in relation to its history.

Laurent Barré
Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
+33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr

Source: CN D

More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme