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Faits et gestes
Noé Soulier
Removing
Noé Soulier
Moving Numbers
Robert Swinston
Orifice Paradis
Ana Rita Teodoro
Talking In/To Myself
CNDC – Angers
My Country Music
Deborah Hay
Sans titre 7 : un âne dans un saladier
CNDC – Angers
Ori-mi
Meri Otoshi
La Souillon(e)
Émilie Sri Hartati Combet
Evening performance called “Jeudi’s” : CNDC’s student in the Pompidou’s center
CNDC – Angers
CNDC’s students in the festival “100 dessus dessous” (Paris)
CNDC – Angers
Réservé au personnel
Loïc Touzé
The Ball
Marie-Cerise Risacher
Coquelicots
Lorena Dozio
Reine-Claude
Martin Juvanon du Vachat
Tengo una duda parte II
CNDC – Angers
Carte blanche of Talia de Vries (2010)
CNDC – Angers
Porosité des frontières
CNDC – Angers
Petit tri sélectif
CNDC – Angers
Lo fragil y lo desconicido en la metafora de un viajante
Miguel Garcia Llorens
De toute mon âme, oui, mais pour une seule fois
Marie Orts
Bref
CNDC – Angers
(…)
CNDC – Angers
Meublé sommairement [by the CNDC’s students] 2/2
Dominique Bagouet
Meublé sommairement [by the CNDC’s students] 1/2
Dominique Bagouet
Workshop of Sophie Lessard for the students of the CNDC’s school (Angers)
CNDC – Angers
50 Box
CNDC – Angers
Spiel
Emmanuelle Huynh
Cribles
Emmanuelle Huynh
Cribles/live
Emmanuelle Huynh
A Vida Enorme/performance
Emmanuelle Huynh
Augures
Emmanuelle Huynh
A Vida Enorme/episode 1
Emmanuelle Huynh
O,O
Deborah Hay
The Leaf [inside]
Emmanuelle Huynh
The Leaf [outside]
Emmanuelle Huynh
Heroes
Emmanuelle Huynh
Múa
Emmanuelle Huynh
Leïla “the night”
Abou Lagraa
Suddenly insolence
Claude Brumachon
Solo of Virginie Hang-Law for the “Cartes blanches” 1999
CNDC – Angers
Report about the students’ participation of the “Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers”
CNDC – Angers
Cangrero Negro
CNDC – Angers
Our ephemeral smiles
CNDC – Angers
Duo of CNDC’s students for the “Cartes blanches” 1999
Carmen Werner
Post
François Raffinot
Mens also move walls : CNDC’s students in the “Accroche-cœurs 2001”
Carmen Werner
Words of dancers
Dominique Dupuy , Régis Obadia , Abou Lagraa , Françoise Adret
Workshop of Matthew Hawkins for the students of the CNDC (1998)
CNDC – Angers
Trio of students in the “Festival Premiers Plans 1996”
Richard Nadal
Duo of students in the “Festival Premiers Plans 1996” (Angers)
Richard Nadal
To Hang
CNDC – Angers
Solo of Jasmin Londono
CNDC – Angers
Solo of Sarah Pellerin
CNDC – Angers
The Telegram
Aïcha M’Barek
The Art of communication
CNDC – Angers
Zenzana (the cell)
Hafiz Dhaou
Passages
CNDC – Angers
L’Atomurbin
CNDC – Angers
Fragments
Joëlle Bouvier , Régis Obadia
Klimsbeu
Patrick Le Doaré
Wunsch
José Biondi
Thesis in Bodinier
Raffaella Giordano
A trail of Wildfire
Christine Marneffe
Double room
CNDC – Angers
The Irresponsibility of Apollo
Joëlle Bouvier , Régis Obadia
Furies
Joëlle Bouvier
Hurry Up !
Joëlle Bouvier
L’Effraction du silence
Joëlle Bouvier , Régis Obadia
The small pieces of Berlin [by the CNDC’s students]
Dominique Bagouet
Soli 1993
CNDC – Angers
Doubt and Certitude
Raffaella Giordano
Lecture demonstration (1981)
Alwin Nikolaïs
Changes (by the students)
Merce Cunningham , Louise Burns
Les étudiants du CNDC d’Angers en répétition avec Michèle-Anne De Mey
Michèle Anne De Mey
Eden (rehearsal)
Maguy Marin
Duo d’Eden (rehearsal)
Maguy Marin
Georges Appaix en quartiers d’été au CNDC d’Angers
Georges Appaix
Ris et Danceries
Francine Lancelot
Recto
Alwin Nikolaïs
Passerelle
Alwin Nikolaïs
Ragtime
Alwin Nikolaïs
Burles-romaines
Didier Deschamps
Tauride
Catherine Diverrès
Hervé Robbe’s Summer Quarters
Hervé Robbe
Rossignol
Régine Chopinot
Catherine Diverrès : “Quartiers d’été”
Catherine Diverrès
Workshop Philippe Priasso (1979)
Alwin Nikolaïs
Quotidien sur danse
Viola Farber
Classe au CNDC
Didier Deschamps
Villa-nuage
Viola Farber
Cinq pour dix
Viola Farber
Workshop Philippe Priasso (1979)
Workshop Philippe Priasso (1979)
1979
Dancers in training at CNDC Angers
Between 1978 and 1981, sixty young French dancers benefited from the teaching at the Centre national de danse contemporaine (CNDC) d’Angers, which was at the time directed by the American choreographer Alwin Nikolais. The repertoire still features his phantasmagorical works, for which this craftsman and magician created not just the choreography, but also the lighting, soundtrack and scenery. However, in the light of the conceptual revolution set in motion by Cage and Cunningham, dance critics would play down the influence of Nikolais’ aesthetic style.
In Angers, however, Alwin Nikolais and his assistants devoted themselves to their teaching above all other things. Their very elaborate teaching method principally used the improvisation and self-observation, both conceptual and tangible, of principles of gesture style. At the end of each week, the trainees would put together the results of their research. This is where Philippe Priasso comes in, who generously illustrates the concept of decentralisation of the body, according to which the body does not just have one single centre of gravity – the dancer can choose at any time to shift his/her centre of movement to any part of the body. This fundamental concept has not only a purely physical resonance, but also a philosophical one.
Gérard Mayen
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enregistré le 23 mai 1979 au Théâtre municipal d’Angersdanseur – stagiaire du CNDC d’Angers Philippe Priassoproduction CNDC Angers