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Daphnis é Chloé
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Rei Dom ou la légende des Kreuls
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Le genou de mathilde [Portrait de Jean-Claude Gallotta]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
99 duos
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Fragments d’une nuit [Hommage a Yves P.]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame [Le desert d’Arkadine, acte 1]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Presque Don Quichotte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Presque Don Quichotte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’un rêveur
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois Générations
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Rue de Palanka
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Sunset Fratell
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Sainte-Marie-Des-Champs [clip]
2003
Montalvo et l’enfant
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Rue de Palanka
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Légende de Roméo et Juliette
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Légende de Roméo et Juliette
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Prémonitions
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Prémonitions [extrait]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Paroles sur Don Quichotte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
My Rock
Jean-Claude Gallotta
My Rock [extrait]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Montalvo et l’enfant
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame à l’Est
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame à l’Est
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Louves [d’après le spectacle Les Louves et pandora]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Louves
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Louves [plan séquence]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L ‘Homme à tête de chou
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Homme à tête de chou
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Hommage à Pavel Haas
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Fantômes du temps
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Enfance de Mammame [duo Petite tête]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Enfance de Mammame [duo Dans le corps]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Chroniques chorégraphiques – Saison 1
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Chroniques chorégraphiques [extrait Groupé]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Chroniques chorégraphiques [duo]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Cher Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Cher Ulysse
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Daphnis é Chloé
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les bergers qui s’attrapent [extrait de Daphnis é Chloé]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les bergers qui s’attrapent [Daphnis é Chloé]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan [acte 1]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan [acte 2]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’un rêveur
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Des Gens qui dansent
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Des Gens qui dansent
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’Angkor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Carnets d’Angkor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
99 duos
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Rue
Jean-Claude Gallotta
99 duos
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame [1998]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Quelques notes de Mammame
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Les Larmes de Marco Polo
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Memoire d’une création
Jean-Claude Gallotta
La Chamoule ou l’Art d’aimer
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Un chant presque éteint
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Fragments d’une nuit [Extrait Hommage a Yves P.]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Le Sacre du printemps précédé de I-Tumulte, II- Pour Igor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Quelques notes de l’art d’aimer
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Bach danse expérience
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame 2002
Jean-Claude Gallotta
faut que je danse
2017
Les survivants extrait
2017
Les survivants
2017
Daphnis è Chloé
2017
présentation du sacre
2017
Daphnis é Cholé re-création intégral
2017
Audition Australie
2017
Racheter la mort des gestes : Chroniques chorégraphiques 1
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Le Sacre du printemps précédé de I-Tumulte, II-Pour Igor
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Yvan Vaffan
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Enfance de Mammame
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Docteur Labus
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Vue sur les marches : Jean-Claude Gallotta
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Entre fiction et frictions, rencontre avec Jean-Claude Gallotta
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ivan Vaffan OK
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Yvan Vaffan le plongeon
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Yvan Vaffan Sauts LQ
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Daphnis Trio
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Daphnis é Chloé (duo)
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Ulysse les oiseaux
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Vaffan Studio blanc
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Vaffan Cris silencieux
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Entretien avec Jean-Claude Gallotta
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame Cabriole
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame les capes
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame Récréation
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois Générations Quatuor des garçons
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois Générations
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Trois générations duo découverte
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame’s Childhood [teaser]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame : Les enfants qui toussent (acte II)
Jean-Claude Gallotta
L’Etranger 20 mn
The Rite and its revolutions
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame’s Childhood [illustrated]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
The Stranger [Teaser]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
l’Etranger
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Mammame’s Childhood [intégral]
Jean-Claude Gallotta
My Rok
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Teaser My Rock
Jean-Claude Gallotta
Teaser My Ladies Rock
Teaser V2 My Ladies Rock
Yvan Vaffan
By revisiting this piece first performed in 1984 and never again since then, I’m pursuing a slightly crazy dream of recreating one of my choreographies, alternating with a new piece, every year. I’ve always felt the need to re-experience my pieces, to turn them into a repertoire, to connect them to one another, to challenge the ephemera, to bring my work face-to-face with time.
Yvan Vaffan is a piece which, at the time, was called tribal, truculent and even theatrical. I’d like to go back to it in this same vein, whilst at the same time looking for other secret mechanisms within it, so that I can measure its ability to enter into a free dialogue with the times in which we’re living.
To do this, I’m really glad to be getting ready to look into it again, this time with performers most of whom weren’t even born when it was first performed, to reinvent it with them, to tune its rhythms in to what’s going on today.
I believe that this is the fate of dance – there’s always this work of tireless rebirth to be done.
Jean-Claude Gallotta
The “tribe” tag with which Jean-Claude Gallotta’s dancers have long been labelled can probably be traced back to the Aventures d’Ivan Vaffan (Adventures of Ivan Vaffan), in 1984. People called them a “tribe” because there a boys and girls all pretending to be uncontrollable warriors and Amazons from who knows where in Mongolia, rigged out like barbarians, bearded, dressed in rags and paste, brandishing huge flags, although it’s more as though they’re fidgeting rather being waved in any warlike way. There was joy, ecstasy and prayer – or at least rites which seemed not too far from it – fondling, the whole thing a bit of a hodgepodge, but with an ability to soothe itself before setting off to conquer some sensual incongruity, or even a word of love.
The press wondered about the morals and rites of this strange horde whose members were spent all their time embracing enthusiastically, grappling with one another, feeling each other up, discovering each other, with all the astonishment of children. At the time there was talk of “the Gallotta body language and spirit”. The choreographer “muddies the waters of sex and redistributes caresses” noted the writer Hervé Guibert. Almost three decades on, Jean-Claude Gallotta is still pursuing his slightly crazy dream of recreating one of his first choreographies every year. “I still feel the need”, he says, “to re-experience my pieces, to turn them into a repertoire, to connect them to one another, to challenge the ephemera of which they’re made up, to bring my work face-to-face with time. So, to do this, I’m glad to be getting ready to question Yvan Vaffan again with performers most of whom weren’t even born when it was first performed, to reinvent the piece with them, to tune its rhythms in to what’s going on today”.
So he sees it as a matter of seeing how the elation of the nineteen eighties stands up in the less carefree times in which we’re living, where the flag of joy is flying at half-mast; how we can still find a way of “redistributing” not only caresses but also flags, borders, identities and intimacy. Ultimately it’s about seeing how his new tribe will tackle things when it comes to who sits where on the sofa, and the whole thing has elements of both naughtiness and anti-authoritarian enthusiasm.
Claude-Henri Buffard