Self Duet

Keep dancing – Danser Encore
The Lyon Opera Ballet will perform soli all over the CN D, in a choreographic circuit resulting from the meeting between one different dancer and one different choreographer for each solo. “Danser Encore” wishes to reflect the diversity of contemporary creation and immerse us into a living creative process for contemporary dance. Initiated in 2020 by Lyon Opera Ballet director Julie Guibert, the “Danser Encore” cycle relies on a desire to showcase the individuality of the company’s dancers and to support choreographic creation in the difficult context of a global pandemic by banking on the fertile dialogue between choreographers and performers. From the creation of tailored soli, “Danser Encore” exposes the team work of two people and highlights how diverse contemporary creation is. After conceiving 13 original soli, the Lyon Opera Ballet will continue the project by creating more pieces that will use all the resources of the body, image and movement. Occupying the entire space of the Centre national de la danse over the course of two days, over 10 soli will be performed in the studios and the Atrium, revealing the fragility, lightness, density and particular grain of each performer and the magnitude of their desire to dance.

Self Duet
Self duet is a pas de deux with oneself. The dancer Katrien De Bakker treats different parts of her body as if they belonged to an external partner. This piece explores the position of our own body and the fine line between interiority and exteriority.
The body of the dancer is at the same time a goal, an object, a target, a tool, a constraint…
As in Le Grand Caprice on “Der Erlkönig” by Heinrich W. Ernst, which accompanies the piece, where the violinist plays both the piano part and the singer’s part of Franz Schubert’s lied, in Self duet, the performer splits himself and makes two partners circulate in his body and manipulate each other in turn.
Source: programmes of CND and Cndc