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L’OGRESSE DES ARCHIVES ET SON CHIEN Creation 2010 au 08.04.14 L’OGRESSE DES ARCHIVES ET SON CHIEN Audience: From 8 years Running time: 1h15 / 1h (for the young audience) Choreography and set design Christian and François Ben Aïm Performance Peggy Grelat-Dupont, Waldemar Krechkowsky, Paolo Locci, Grégoire Puren, Pierre-Emmanuel Sorignet, Gill Viandier, François Ben Aïm, Mathilde Sternat (cello), Bruno Ferrier (vocal and percussions), Music Jean-Baptiste Sabiani Video Mélusine Thiry Costumes Dulcie Best Lights Laurent Patissier General management Luc Béril Light direction Laurent Patissier Sound direction Sébastien Teulié Actors film Eva Defouloy-Mosoni, Jean Ben Aïm, Christian Ben Aïm Production: CFB 451 Coproductions: Théâtre de La Madeleine - scène conventionnée de Troyes, Espace Gérard Philipe de Saint-André-les- Vergers, Théâtre Paul Eluard - scène conventionnée de Bezons, Espace 1789 de Saint-Ouen, Théâtre Paul Eluard de Choisy- le-Roi, Le Théâtre – Scène Nationale de Mâcon, Atelier de Paris - Carolyn Carlson et CDC Paris Réseau centre de développe- ment chorégraphique (Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, L’étoile du nord, Micadanses-ADDP, studio Le regard du Cygne-AMD XXe), ARCADI – aide à la production et à la diffusion en Ile-de-France (2011-2012 et 2012-2013) Accueil studio: Red Brick project CCN Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais - Carolyn Carlson, CCN de Biarritz - Thierry Malandain, CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne - Cie Kafig Supports artistic project: ADAMI, Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne, CDC du Val-de-Marne pour la diffusion dans le 94, Spedidam (pour la diffusion en 2012), Conseil Régional de Champagne-Ardenne - ORCCA, Ville de Palaiseau Choreographic residencies: Hostellerie de Pontempeyrat – association Regards et Mouvement ARTISTIC INTENTIONS LOUVES, A BEGINNING The choreographic piece Louves created in October 2008 by Christian Ben Aïm gived the tone of this project. This short performance of 14 minutes is the beginning of the creation process for this piece, L’Ogresse des archives et son chien for its choreographic writing, for its construction and for its surrealistic atmosphere. The universal tales have inspired Louves. It presents various imaginary feminine figures which are simultaneously precious, warriors and delicates. This metamorphosis takes place into a fantastic and playful world, between innocence and cruelty. Press clipping From the backgrounds, he charges on a tiny child bike, wrapped in a red cape and dragging a fur like a corpse. From the “Princess” (principal themes of this event) Christian Ben Aïm gives us a particularly view: those of a 3-4 years old “Little Red Riding Hood” who having a fit of anger, stealing his mum’s accessory (shoes to run away) and those of the woodcutter (the axe). With circus and theatre elements, the young choreographer is like a breath of fresh air to the New Theatre auditorium of Poitiers. He brings madness in a quite wise event. Good idea from Odile Azagury to get together 21 choreographers. Mathieu Braunstein - Danser © Arthur Péquin FEAR, VIOLENCE AND POWER Christian et François Ben Aïm approach these themes considering that each of us develop a specific posture when confronted to fear, violence or power. As fear can be source of violence, violence a sign of power and power can be engendering fear; this triptych is representative of the dark side of our humanity. This subject, which has often been approached by literature and tales is recurrent in their artistic universe. Throughout this piece, the choreographers continue their questioning on the representations of human condition. © Patrick Berger DIVERSION OF REALITY Just like some stories and films directed by David Linch or Pedro Almodovar, Christian and François Ben Aïm introduce a superposition and a surrealistic organisation of the events in their choreography to build a world full of a strange beauty. Choreographers play with the notion of metamorphosis of the different figures they chose, swinging between dream and reality (a red riding hood, an oger, sleeping beauty among others). All these magic characters are part of our imaginary world as well as part our collective memory. FANTASY AND SENSUALITY Louves experiments the field of desire and travesty through a soft and sensual body language. In this creation, the choreographers develop these themes by working on the performer’s physical presence on stage. An accent is put on a lascivious gestural vocabulary to let desire appear in the bend of a fantastic representation. They want to represent the pleasure around unusual elements, to surprise in a singular way. THE UNUSUAL Some elements in the choreography are elaborated from attitudes and beha- viours out of proportion. In order to reach strangeness, the performer’s bodies are deconstructed. Then, they have soft and deformed gesture, with unusual rhythmic, monstrous curves and incongruous steps. To bring the unusual on the tray, the choreographers play on the various dimensions and on the proportions, make live together the infinitesimal and the enormous, multiply the figures. For example, they created a ballet composed of 7 red chaperons on small bicycles, flying around in circles, avoiding each other, creating a sensation of euphoria. © Estelle Brugerolles LIVE MUSIC For this piece Christian and François Ben Aïm continue working with musicians: a cellist and a percussionist will be on stage. This will to work in connection with music has already being realized in previous pieces like You’re a bird, now! and Louves. The combination of dance and music around the theme of fantastic tales brings a new dynamic; the original musi- cal compositions of the piece are created by Jean-Baptiste Sabiani, who have worked for the Resistance au droit and Valse en trois temps. Musicians, dancers and acrobats share the stage with complicity. COSTUMES The costumes are designed and made by Dulcie Best. After meeting Christian and François Ben Aïm at an event for 35 artists which the 2 brothers choreographed, she designs and creates costumes for Louves. A particular attention is held on the theme of transformation. The costumes will participate in this strange universe mixing with surrealism and metamorphosis. Dulcie Best designs costumes for large corporate an interna- tional events, such as the Paralympic Games in Athens (2004), the Toyota Pavilion in Japan (2005). Meanwhile she continues © Estelle Brugerolles her passion for theater, opera, puppetry, dance and much more. VIDEOS The play opens with a short film directed by Melusine Thiry, serving as prologue. The film presents a «realistic» framework, although mysterious, before the viewer is immersed in the fantasy world unveiled on stage. This film features two characters living in a forest: a man (Christian Ben Aïm) and child (Eva-Defouloy Mosoni). Fate will bring together these two lonely and independent. As two characters from completely different worlds, they will approach one another. Crossing looks without seeing each other, a hazardous chase takes place, a tree collapses ... many events that reflect a disintegrating reality that is disintegrating, shattering realism and uncons- ciousness. This film offers the premises of the immersion on stage, reveals the transition from reality to fantasy, and is the poetic world and unconscious inside manhood, which is elaborated on stage. CREATIVE INITIATIVES L’Ogresse des archives et son chien has the particularity to bring together disciplines (dance, circus, music, video). This creation is an opportunity to discover one of these disciplines. For this piece, Christian and François Ben Aïm were inspired by the world of fairy tales. By invoking the characters that populate these stories, the choreographers worked on the idea of transformation, fascination and fear. The universe of stories, complex and abundant, is an inexhaustible theme which can be approached in a fun and relevant approach through writing, video, music or dance, both with children and adults. Some examples of workshops : -Choreography workshop around storytelling -Video Workshop - Workshop-around music -Meeting, discussion, sociological conferences (with Pierre-Emmanuel Sorignet, sociologist and dancer around his book Dancer CHRISTIAN AND FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM A company The Ben Aïm brothers are all of this, and more: a fifteen-year partnership that has produced some twenty creations, strengthened by artistic collaborations from all backgrounds. Their story reads like a ploughed furrow, dug with the expertise of field workers liaising with performance spaces and communities. In the past three years, they have created some 350 shows that have helped them to establish an authentic company identity. Two choreographer-dancers After studying dance, physical theatre and circus skills, they each set out to © DR develop their performing careers independently in Canada and France. Once reunited, they laid the foundations for their company, which functions around the fraternal dynamic created by François and Christian: a meeting of minds and instincts, they continually bounce ideas off each other to produce artistic projects in constant evolution. Standout pieces In 1996, the brothers created their cornerstone piece: A l’abri du regard des hommes, avant d’aller mourir ailleurs, a hybrid performance in which dancers and actors share and feed off each other’s raw physical energy. La Frontera and Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut encore changer followed in the same vein, showca- sing a style of dance that blends subtle humour with elements of surprise. 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