Quintette cercle

A performance with the subtitle “a fundamental, leaping, singing ballet,” “Quintette cercle” is inspired by the figures and the strangeness of “héâtre-élévision,” a live version of a dance intended for the TV screen.

Quintette cercle – Boris Charmatz

A performance with the subtitle “a fundamental, leaping, singing ballet,”  “Quintette cercle” is inspired by the figures and the strangeness of “héâtre-élévision,” a live version of a dance intended for the TV screen. This choreographic piece works in equal measure with movement and voice. The body is a vibratory instrument which brings forth grimacing and gesturing movements and emits sounds and onomatopoeias constructed on the basis of Galina Ustvolskaya’s music. Everything in this piece speaks of the history of composition and of rhythmic powers in confined spaces. At first, the empty and dark space of the stage draws the viewer’s gaze towards a small, three-wall box at the back of the stage where bodies are piled up. Then the space expands into a large airy metal cage, suspended from hooks, in which the dancers make and undo a singing circle around a central light bulb. The extract filmed in Vienna, accompanied by live music, shows this singing circle which is incessantly constructed and deconstructed in order to help develop gesturing individualities pervaded by Galina Ustvolskaya’s score. The light, created by Yves Godin, participates in the rhythmic power: the luminous density, constantly changing, distorts even further the constructed arrangements and offers the viewer, through shadow and under-exposure, the possibility of an imaginary space.

CreditsTitle : Quintette cercleYear of creation : 2006Place of creation: Bagouet studio at the Centre chorégraphique national in Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon as part of the festival Montpellier Danse 06Choreography : Boris CharmatzLight : Yves GodinSound : Olivier RenoufOriginal interpreters : Nuno Bizarro, Boris Charmatz, Julia Cima, Mathilde Lapostelle, Benoît Lachambre2nd casting : Nuno Bizarro ou Andreas Müller, Boris Charmatz, Anna Mac Rae, Latifa Laâbissi or Mette Ingvartsen, Fabrice RamalingomTechnical direction : Frédéric VannieuwenhuyseVoice training : Dalila KhatirMusic : Henri Cowell (Anger Dance, Aeolian harp), Galina Ustvolskaya (Composition Dona nobis Pacem) and the dancersDuration : 35 minutesProduction : Association edna ; Musée de la danseCoproduction : Festival Montpellier Danse 2006, Festival d’Automne – Paris, Les Spectacles Vivants- Centre Pompidou – Paris. Thanks go to Julia Cima, Mathilde Lapostolle and Benoît Lachambre for their participation in creating these dance pieces, as well as to all the coproducers “héâtre-élévision”.Recording: January 18, 2008 at the Tanzquartier Vienna / Halle G.With: Nuno Bizarro, Boris Charmatz, Latifa Laâbissi, Anna Mac Rae, Fabrice Ramalingom and the Vienna Ensemble: Flute / Sylvie Lacroix, piano / Mathilde Hoursiangou, tuba / Hannes Haider

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