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 Théâtre des Abbesses
From 8 to 12 December 2009  See performance time    Dance
  • From Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 December 2009 - 20h30


Boris Charmatz Choregrapher
CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne Company

50 ans de danse  Creation
With the Festival d'Automne in Paris


NEARLY 90²
It is with great sadness that we learned the news of Merce Cunningham's passing on July 27, 2009. Together with Festival d'Automne we had planned to celebrate the 90th birthday of this incomparable creator with the presentation of Nearly Ninety 2, and of the works of Boris Charmatz and Jérôme Bel. This tribute has turned in to a farewell.


The monumental figure of the visionary Merce Cunnigham, the man who created 150 pieces, towers over the choreographic art in the second half of the 20th century. Is it still possible to resort to his work as a starting point for new experiments rather than merely pay the required homage to the consecrated master? That challenge was taken up by French choreographer Boris Charmatz, who combines a boisterous nature with an analytical approach and great inventiveness. Imagining the motions which would provide the links between the emblematic pictures of the great American leader’s pieces, images which can be found in the masterwork Merce Cunningham, un demi-siècle de danse [Merce Cunningham, half a century of dance], led to Charmatz’s creation  of 50 ans de danse [50 Years of Dance]. He was thus able to demonstrate in the first place that mere amateurs or students could benefit from Cunningham’s virtuoso example in virtually no time at all. He now attracts into his experiments former performers of Merce Cunningham’s. He does so at the very moment when the Théâtre de la Ville welcomes yet again the illustrious New York choreographer himself, providing us with an exciting opportunity to bring together the original model and his dizzying inheritance.

Gérard Mayen
 

 

 

Avec le Festival d'Automne à Paris

 

 

conception
Boris Charmatz

lighting design
Yves Godin

sound
Olivier Renouf

with
Thomas Caley, Ashley Chen, Foofwa d'Imobilité, Banu Ogan, Valda Setterfield, Gus Solomons, Cheryl Therrien

 
productions on tour
  • Dec.  3rd and 4th, Vienna, Austria
  • Dec 17th and 18th,  Geneva
 

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