So schnell [transmission 2016]

Extrait remonté par le groupe l’ Atelier chorégraphique jeunes adultes de Florac, sous la direction artistique de Muriel Marie-Augé, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2015)

(1990 and 1992 creation, second version)
An extract remodelled by the group the Atelier chorégraphique jeunes adultes in Florac, under the artistic direction of Muriel Marie-Augé, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme 2015 (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

Creation for December 6th and 7th 1990 at the Corum, Montpellier, on the occasion of the inauguration, for dance, of the stage of the new Opéra Berlioz.

The group
Under the artistic direction of Muriel Marie-Augé, the Atelier chorégraphique jeunes adultes, made up of thirteen interpreters aged 15 to 19, attends regular classes and training sessions with dancers and choreographers such as Ingeborg Liptay, Jean Pomarès, Hélène Cathala, to name but a few. Set up in Florac (Lozère), it profited from the presence in Montpellier of the choreographer Dominique Bagouet in the early 1980s and kept up strong ties with the dancers and artists close to Bagouet and based in the region. The group works and rehearses at the Genette verte, Florac’s communal cultural centre created in 1997, which is equipped with a performance hall. 

The project
By choosing So schnell (1990 and 1992), Dominique Bagouet’s last work, around the subjects of childhood and adulthood, memory and time, and a writing manifesto against the backdrop of works by the plastic artist Roy Lichtenstein and J.S. Bach’s cantate BWV 26, the association wished to work on space as a playground, on geometric paths, as well as on Bagouet’s characteristic features: journeys, rebounds, the musicality of breath… Rita Cioffi, Bagouet’s interpreter since 1989, undertook the task of transmission to the dancers.

The choreographer
Dominique Bagouet (1951-1992), an emblematic choreographer of French contemporary dance, trained at Rosella Hightower’s school, before completing his apprenticeship with Maurice Béjart in Brussels. In 1980, he became the director of one of the first Centres chorégraphiques nationaux, that of Montpellier. Rooted in classical dance, his detailed writing, subtly burlesque at times, combines gestural precision, quirky elegance and intimate musicality. He has collaborated with a large number of artists such as the composer Pascal Dusapin and the visual artist Christian Boltanski, to name but a few. Since his death in 1992, the association Les Carnets Bagouet, founded by his dancers, has kept and transmitted his works both in France and overseas.