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Daphnis é Chloé
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Rei Dom ou la légende des Kreuls
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Le genou de mathilde [Portrait de Jean-Claude Gallotta]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
99 duos
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Fragments d’une nuit [Hommage a Yves P.]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame [Le desert d’Arkadine, acte 1]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Presque Don Quichotte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Presque Don Quichotte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’un rêveur
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois Générations
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Rue de Palanka
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Sunset Fratell
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Sainte-Marie-Des-Champs [clip]
2003
Montalvo et l’enfant
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Rue de Palanka
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Légende de Roméo et Juliette
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Légende de Roméo et Juliette
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Prémonitions
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Prémonitions [extrait]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Paroles sur Don Quichotte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
My Rock
Jean-Claude Gallotta
My Rock [extrait]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Montalvo et l’enfant
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame à l’Est
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame à l’Est
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Louves [d’après le spectacle Les Louves et pandora]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Louves
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Louves [plan séquence]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L ‘Homme à tête de chou
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Homme à tête de chou
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Hommage à Pavel Haas
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Fantômes du temps
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Enfance de Mammame [duo Petite tête]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Enfance de Mammame [duo Dans le corps]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Chroniques chorégraphiques – Saison 1
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Chroniques chorégraphiques [extrait Groupé]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Chroniques chorégraphiques [duo]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Cher Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Cher Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Daphnis é Chloé
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les bergers qui s’attrapent [extrait de Daphnis é Chloé]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les bergers qui s’attrapent [Daphnis é Chloé]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan [acte 1]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan [acte 2]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’un rêveur
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Des Gens qui dansent
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Des Gens qui dansent
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’Angkor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’Angkor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
99 duos
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Rue
Jean-Claude Gallotta
99 duos
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame [1998]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Quelques notes de Mammame
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Larmes de Marco Polo
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Memoire d’une création
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Chamoule ou l’Art d’aimer
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Un chant presque éteint
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Fragments d’une nuit [Extrait Hommage a Yves P.]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Le Sacre du printemps précédé de I-Tumulte, II- Pour Igor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Quelques notes de l’art d’aimer
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Bach danse expérience
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame 2002
Jean-Claude Gallotta
faut que je danse
2017
Les survivants extrait
2017
Les survivants
2017
Daphnis è Chloé
2017
présentation du sacre
2017
Daphnis é Cholé re-création intégral
2017
Audition Australie
2017
Racheter la mort des gestes : Chroniques chorégraphiques 1
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Le Sacre du printemps précédé de I-Tumulte, II-Pour Igor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Yvan Vaffan
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Enfance de Mammame
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Docteur Labus
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Vue sur les marches : Jean-Claude Gallotta
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Entre fiction et frictions, rencontre avec Jean-Claude Gallotta
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ivan Vaffan OK
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Yvan Vaffan le plongeon
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Yvan Vaffan Sauts LQ
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Daphnis Trio
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Daphnis é Chloé (duo)
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ulysse les oiseaux
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Vaffan Studio blanc
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Vaffan Cris silencieux
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Entretien avec Jean-Claude Gallotta
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame Cabriole
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame les capes
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame Récréation
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois Générations Quatuor des garçons
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois Générations
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois générations duo découverte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame’s Childhood [teaser]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame : Les enfants qui toussent (acte II)
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Etranger 20 mn
The Rite and its revolutions
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame’s Childhood [illustrated]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
The Stranger [Teaser]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
l’Etranger
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame’s Childhood [intégral]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
My Rok
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Teaser My Rock
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Teaser My Ladies Rock
Teaser V2 My Ladies Rock
Quelques notes de Mammame
Dramatist point of view
Sometimes, among contemporary choreographies, of which many may appear to be modern mysteries inaccessible to reason and laymen, a piece of great obviousness is born. MAMMAME is such a piece, or rather has become one after being perceived as a dancing object not identifiable with creation in 1985.
Beneath its cabalistic title and despite it MAMMAME is, in fact, a fiery venture seeking elucidation. Of what? How? In what it proclaims on the stage through each movement, each burst, each shock – the necessary integrity of the body. Without words, it replies to the world, in almost a militant way, that the human body is one and indivisible, that it is a divine machine of blood, sweat, skin and soul. And suddenly, of course, in this time of unbearable events, the message takes on its true strength. A buffoon makes, for us, this terrible observation that the obvious has become today a utopia.
MAMMAME is, undeniably, to be classed in “pieces of life”. But is it only a succession of harmoniously placed bursts or is it a story? “In dance, said the choreographer, some of us enjoy telling stories whereas others not at all.” We can therefore ask ourselves whether his quest is not leading him to try and make choreographic works with two faces, you could say cubist, that make it possible, depending on the standpoint of the spectator, depending on the meanders of his mind, to see simultaneously on the scene an abstraction, a narration, an abstraction, a narration, in the same way as, by playing with a hologram, you can see two aspects of a same image.
MAMMAME appears to enable this approach. Through the history of the “MAMMAME” tribe it is possible to tell (oneself) a story. Jean-Claude Gallotta does it. “MAMMAME, a garrison town in the Arkadine desert, on the 20th June of a leap year. The dance opens with the fall of a man.” A kind of endangered species the “MAMMAMES” dance the Cabscholle…
But those who prefer games of the body and abstraction, sound and meaning, will firstly see in the word “MAMMAME” a sort of 12-legged phonetic caterpillar. This crawling, unending word (mammamemammamemammame…) recalls that any dance takes its source in the ground. As for all caterpillars, we look for the head and tail, “MAMMAME” is a palindrome whose name we chew rather than pronounce.
Thus relieved of the burden of carrying a meaning, this succession of letters can be understood as a simple onomatopoeia which recalls that the mouth, the lips, the vocal chords, the larynx, right through to the sounds that come out, are also to be choreographed. Even prevented from giving access to the least evocation, the title “MAMMAME” says the dance. Pronounce it, and already something in you starts to dance. Chew it and you outline with your lips something similar to a choreographic movement. By giving the spectator this title to put in his mouth the choreographer does not give him a key but offers him the body and soul of the production. “MAMMAME” is a choreographed dance to be eaten.
It thus belongs to an art of regeneration, that is to say that intends humbly to help reconstitute in us the human part that our guilty indifference to the world devitalises each day a little more.
Claude-Henri Buffard – January 1998