Planète Bagouet

More than a portrait, this film attempts to understand the scope of Dominique Bagouet’s work.

(vol.24)

Classic in form, this documentary lives up to its ambition: to question contemporary dance, its present and its memory, in the wake of a man who sought to find “the soul of movement and the greatness of the small gesture”. More than a portrait, this film attempts to grasp the significance of Dominique Bagouet’s work.

It does this by evoking the work of the choreographer, his relationships with the interpreters and his installation in the early 1980s in the Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier, which was the first to open in France. His teaching there was not the least of his actions. Shot during the 1993 Montpellier Danse Festival, a few months after the death of the choreographer and a few weeks before the dissolution of his company, the film gives voice to the dancers and loyal followers of his team (Christine Lemoigne, Alain Neddam, Sven Lava Pohlhammer…) in a final tribute that was the common thread running through the festival.

Source : Fabienne Arvers