Le Jardin des Délices A show by Blanca Li After the work by Hieronymus Bosch

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Compagnie Blanca Li www.blancali.com A long history

The painting “Garden of Earthly Delights”, a major work by Hieronymus Bosch, combines the fantastic and fantasmagoric, vegetal, plant and animal kingdoms, realism and modernity, an approach that leaves classic iconography to set the religious spirit against a tormented humanity. I have always wanted to give movement to this pictural expression of a place where hell merges with heaven, satire with morality, where an obsession with sins and salvation resides an unequalled force. In my creations I like to mix various modes of expression. Here I create a dialogue with the work of Eve Ramboz, specialist in digital visual effects, who has already made two films on paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, where her work will interact with my choreography.

Blanca Li Let’s imagine an unlikely place inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, organized like a puzzle, a riddle. A collection of objects that are conversing without ever really understanding each other. In this place where everything seems possible, shady characters are gathered while outside the apocalypse is thundering for a last sublime ball. A crazy and yet very lucid ball. Where genres are mixing and clashing. The desperate race for consumerist pleasure, vanity, intolerance… They are dancing on a volcano and are firing their last shells. These themes are encrypted in the work by Hieronymus Bosch. Beneath the surrealistic varnish, the artist is describing the rigid society of his time. Inquisition, the weight of intransigence, superstition. He knows that the world is on the road to ruin. He is painting a manifesto to freedom. Today this work inspires us to describe our world.

Blanca Li

Blanca Li is a choreographer, a film director, a dancer and an actress. Whether performance, opera, video clip or feature film, she initiates and realises a great number of projects : “I like to give life to all that’s in my head”. Not restricted to one style, she draws from a broad spectrum of physical forms of expression, from flamenco to classical ballet to hip hop. With Blanca Li everything begins and ends in the energy of movement and dance. Born in Granada, Spain, she studied in New York with Martha Graham before setting up her own dance company in Paris where she has created nine choreographic pieces since 1993 enthusiastically received by audience and press alike : Nana et Lila (Festival d’Avignon, 1993), Salomé (1995), Stress (Théâtre Jean Vilar de Suresnes, 1997) and two operas in Nancy, La Vida breve and El Amor Brujo. She created her one-woman show Zap! Zap! Zap!, and at the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon Blanca Li staged Le Songe du Minotaure with her company, a piece inspired by Ancient Greece. Two months later, she was commissioned by the Nancy Opera to direct and choreograph the world premiere of Un Tango Pour Monsieur Lautrec. The Opéra de Paris then commissioned her to create Les Indes Galantes and the ballet Shéhérazade. She directed the BerlinBallett at Komische Oper from 2001 to 2002.

Biography Familiar with the cinema as a choreographer, she wrote and directed her first feature film in 2002 : Le Défi, a tribute to the American musical comedies translated into the world of French hip hop and inspired by her show Macadam Macadam. In 2004, her company created Alarme, a series of 8 short humouristic pieces for the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, and Al Andalus, a program of classical ballet, inspired by the choreographer’s Andalucian origins. In 2006, the choreographer restaged her hip hop musical Macadam Macadam at Massy Opera. Also performed at the Théâtre Mogador of Paris, the show received the 2007 Globe de Cristal (Paris Première) in the Best opera/ballet category. Corazon Loco with the vocal ensemble Sequenza 9.3, with a contemporary score by Edith Canat de Chizy, was produced in 2007 at the Théâtre national de Chaillot. Since Septembre 2006, Blanca Li as been the artistic Director of the Andaluz Dance Centre in Sevilla. Her show based on Lorca’s Poeta en Nueva York attracted more than 90 000 visitors during the Summer festival in Granada in 2007 and 2008 and received the “Premios Max” for best choreography. In October 2008, she created Enamorados Anonimos at the Movistrar Theatre in Madrid. Blanca Li was made “Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite” by the French Ministry of Culture and received the prestigious Manuel de Falla award in recognition for her career as a choreographer.

Biography “ The Garden of Earthly Delights”, a film byEve Ramboz

The Garden of Delights or the infinity of possibles L’Escamoteur, a 13 minute animated film after a painting by Jérôme Bosch, had already given me the starting point for metaphorical fantasy where pictorial, mental and synthetic images melded together. Today, with The Garden of Earthly Delights, my dream persists and evolves. Drawing on a painting particularly rich in images as a source, endlessly exploring all the possibilities of a world in trompe-l’oeil. My desire here is to stage a representation of the earthly paradise where imagined images of the orient and occident meet, using hybrid architecture and mythological beings, taken from childhood. The piece will be carried by proceedings of mixed animated sequences, that respect the technique and structure of the original painting, in a constantly exhilarating process of Construction-Mixing-Metamorphosis. (...)

The scenario works through evocation rather than narration : the association of ideas evoking colors, the association of images evoking narrations of all sorts, of stories, myths, and dreams. This fantasy on past and present worlds and for an ideal of the future, will suddenly reveal a fragmented and reworded universe, a metaphor of happiness and freedom. (...) Biography

After her studies in Fine Arts in Bergen (Norway), and in the INSAS (Belgium), Eve Ramboz became a graphic designer and a specialist of visual effects. She now concentrates on the direction and supervision of visual numerical effects for cinema and television. She worked on video clips by film-makers such as Mike Lipscombe (Tori Amos, Jamiroquai “Deep underground”), Stéphane Sednaoui (Tina Turner, Alain Souchon, Mirwais)... In cinema, she collaborated with Peter Greenaway (Prospero’s book, Les Morts de la Seine and M for man (short film), Roland Joffe on Good Bye lover and Vatel and Brian De Palma on Mission Impossible... More recently, she directed special effects on Intervention Divine by Elijah Souleiman, Riders by Worse Gérard or Demon Lover by Oliver Assayas. As writer and director she created animated films. Eve is one of the founding members of “La maison” in Paris, a place dedicated to visual effects. She has received numerous international prizes and distinctions : Ars Electronika 2006 for Aqua Natasha, Prizes Imagina 2003 & SIGGRAPH 2003, for GDF Dolce Vita (Bruno Aveillan), a Grammy awards 2002 for SATURN VUE, Ants et Lizard (Frédéric Planchon), Emmy Awards 2002 for Best special effects, for Arabian Nights (Steve Barron). Tao Gutiérrez, Music

Born in the south of Spain, he studied literature in Madrid and then composition and percussion in New York with Nana Vasconcelos and Ron Carter, going on to play with some of the most important jazz (Don Cherry), african (Baba Olatunji) and bresilian bands and musicians. Returning to Spain in the nineties he composed music for cinema (Poniente, Le Défi, El Calentito) and the dance scene, especially for Blanca Li. He works as a producer and arranger for bands like Hevia and Edu and developed his own musical company “Gaspanic”. One of his songs composed for the documentary Return to Hansala was nominated for a Goya Awards in 2009.

Biographies Pierre Attrait, Scenography

Born in Martinique, Pierre Attrait studied Litterature and Art History. In metropolitan France, he worked as stage designer for the Paris Opera, MC93 or the Théâtre National de Chaillot with stage directors such as Jacques Martial and Georges Lavaudant, before going to Canada where he designed the sets for the operas André Chénier (Best director award in 1989) and La Traviata. He has also worked for television and cinema (with film directors such as Altman, Silveira, Ottmezguine, Beraud and Santoni...) and he is the art director for prestigious international events (Jean-Paul Gaultier, Cartier, etc.) with the Marcadé Agency. This is his third collaboration with Blanca Li after Corazón Loco and Poeta en Nueva York. His latest works include Liens de Sang, Cannibales and Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Jean-Michel Martial, Martin Luther King Jr or Folies Coloniales by Dominique Lurcel, among others.

Biographies Jacques Châtelet, Lights

Jacques Châtelet specializes in lighting effects and is invited to the most prestigious theaters and operas around the world (Comédie Française, Théâtre de la Ville and Odéon in Paris, Operas in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Sydney, Munich, Saint-Pétersbourg, Berlin, …)… He also collaborates with choreographers such as Dominique Bagouet and Angelin Preljocaj and creates lighting for operas and ballets (Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Roméo and Juliette, Don Quichotte) and musicals (La Cage aux Folles, Hello Dolly, Singing in the rain, Titanic...). Garden of Earthly Delights is his fifth collaboration with Blanca Li after Shéhérazade (Opera of Paris), Alarm (Lyon Biennal), Corazón Loco and Poeta in Nueva York.

Biographies Charles Carcopino, Video

Since 2000, Charles Carcopino has been the Director of the Studio of audiovisual creation at the Maison des Arts in Créteil (France), a structure dedicated to the creation and production of images for shows. Within this framework, he collaborates with many artists and producers, creating interactive devices and video installations. He has participated in operas (Les contes d’Hoffman and les Boreades by Laurent Pelly), plays, musicals (with Jorge Orta and Stone Henry), choreographic works (with the Montalvo-Hervieu company, Angelin Preljocaj, Christian Rizzo...). He also directs the conception of video elements for events such as the opening and closing ceremonies of Lille 2004 (European capital for culture) or the EXIT festival in Créteil. This is his fifth collaboration with Blanca Li.

Biographies Tilman Grawe, Costumes

Timan Grawe arrived in 1987 to Paris, with a solid technical background, mad about fashion and convinced that his destiny could only be in Haute couture. His career path is equal to his ambitions, after a beginning with Louis Féraud Haute he became Paco Rabanne’s close collaborator, in charge of the creation of experimental Haute Couture models. Reflection and improvisation, between leather opacities and plastic transparencies. Throughout the world, the designer, German by birth, Parisian by adoption, loves to test and mix modern and academic materials (such as plexiglas).

Biographies Le Jardin des Délices

Direction and choreography : Blanca Li Animation film :Eve Ramboz Music : Tao Gutiérrez Scenography : Pierre Attrait Lights : Jacques Châtelet Video : Charles Carcopino Costumes : Tilman Grawe, Laurent Mercier Assistant to the choregraph : Glyslein Lefever Dancers : casting in process