Solides [transmission 2017]

Extrait remonté par le groupe Accords Perdus (Vanves), responsable artistique Juliette Martin, dans le cadre de Danse en amateur et répertoire (2016)

An extract remodelled by the group Accords Perdus (Vanves), artistic manager Juliette Martin, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme (2016) (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

The group
Based in Vanves, the amateur collective, Accords perdus, under the leadership of Juliette Martin, has already worked on the reconstruction of Dominique Bagouet’s Une danse blanche avec Éliane, in collaboration with Christine Bastin for the remodelling of Gueule de loup, and has presented these pieces in various contexts including at the Halle Pajol and the Carreau du Temple. Since 2014 the group is passionate about the links between dance and psychomotricity and has brought together a large number of psychomotricity therapists. 

The project
By focusing on the fabrication of the body and movement in their most intimate relationship, the group has chosen to tackle Solides in order to delve into its relationship with the fundamentals of contemporary dance. One of the issues addressed was the question of weight as an “organiser of gestures” both from a psychological and a physical viewpoint. The dancers’ interest in an implementation at the crossroads of interiority and the outside world also supports the approach of the group, who collaborates with Catherine Diverrès, as well as with Thierry Micoin, Emilio Urbina and Rafael Pardillo. 

The choreographer
Her ultra-sensitive gestures and her ability to take the public’s hand to lead it through mazes, make Catherine Diverrès a quite unique artist. Overwhelmed by contradictory excesses, hovering between the desire for gentleness and the contraction of pain, her dance progresses in leaps and bounds against a background of an acute existential quest. Trained in classical dance from the age of 5 and then in Merce Cunningham’s American techniques, among others, she collaborated with Bernardo Montet between 1979 and 1998. The director of the Centre chorégraphique de Rennes from 1994 to 2008, she stages powerful works imbued with that aura of uncompromising vulnerability that makes her so talented.  

Amateur Dance and Repertory is a companion program to amateur practice beyond the dance class and the technical learning phase. Intended for groups of amateur dancers, it opens a space of sharing for those who wish to deepen a practice and a knowledge of the dance in relation to its history.

Laurent Barré
Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
+33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr

Source: CN D

More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme