So schnell (version 1992) [transmission 2019]

An extract remodelled by the group Compagnie 1 week-end sur 2, collective coordination, as part of Danse en amateur et répertoire programme 2018/2019 ( a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing). Transmission by Dominique Jégou, Annabelle Pulcini, Pascal Roland, Claude Sorin

Presented 25 May 2019, Centre national de la danse, Pantin.

The dance work when it was created

So schnell (version 1992)

Firstly produced 11 October 1992 at the Théâtre municipal in Montpellier

Choreography: Dominique Bagouet

Dance work for 12 performers :Priscilla Danton, Matthieu Doze, Olivia Grandville, Nicolas Héritier, Dominique Jégou, Myriam Lebreton, Catherine Legrand, Sylvain Prunenec, Annabelle Pulcini, Fabrice Ramalingom, Viviane Serry, Juan Manuel Vicente.

Music: Cantate BWV 26 by J. S. Bach, « Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig » and electroacoustic composition by Laurent Gachet, Jack Art Song

Original duration: 65 minutes

The group 

Compagnie 1 week-end sur 2 (Neuville-de-Poitou, Nouvelle-Aquitaine)

The Compagnie 1 week-end sur 2 is made up of six non-professional female dancers who came together around the common desire to share their relationship with contemporary dance and their wish to initiate a choreographic creation process. Established in Neuville-de-Poitou where they have access to a dance studio, they choose the works together which they then collectively work on and develop the project for. They also carry out awareness campaigns around contemporary dance, and have already had the opportunity to present their work at festivals like Les Expressifs in Poitiers and 1 000 et Une Scènes in Oiron.

The project

So schnell, considered as one of Dominique Bagouet’s masterpieces – synthesizing the key choreographic principles found throughout his work –, is first and foremost an ode to body momentum. Through the composition’s combination of joyful vivacity and mathematical rigour, the movements resonate with Bach’s music and reproduce his fugal lines in space. The six dancers of the 1 week-end sur 2 company, accompanied by Annabelle Pulcini, a member of the Carnets Bagouet, who transmitted her solo and various extracts of the work to them, threw themselves body and soul into this reproduction.