May 4 to June 2

EDITION 2012 - MAY 4 TO JUNE 2

PROGRAM

Theaters

May 44----5555 MC93, Bobigny

May 99----1010 La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues, Pantin

May 1212----13131313 Maison du Théâtre et de la Danse, Épinay-sur-Seine La Chaufferie, Saint-Denis

May 1515----16161616 Le Forum, Blanc-Mesnil

May 1919----20202020 Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen

May 22 Espace Michel-Simon, Noisy-le-Grand

May 2323----24242424----25252525 Centre national de la danse, Pantin

May 2929----30303030----31313131 Le Colombier, Bagnolet

June 11----2222 Nouveau Théâtre, Montreuil

The association Centre international de Bagnolet pour les œuvres chorégraphiques Seine-Saint-Denis was founded at the initiative of the Ville de Bagnolet and the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis, with the support of the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Ile-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.

1 2 THE CHOREOGRAPHERS

CREATIONS

CATHERINE DIVERRÈS

DD DORVILLIER

JULIE DOSSAVI

MATIJA FERLIN

CLARA FUREY / BENOÎT LACHAMBRE

EMMANUELLE HUYNH ARTISTS INVITED

ELLI MEDEIROS / SIMONE AUGHTERLONY MICKAËL PHELIPPEAU AURELIE GANDIT (Duo) PERRINE VALLI PAUL-ANDRÉ FORTIER AURELIE GANDIT (Solo) AN KALER

FRANK MICHELETTI

JANET NOVÁS

LIAT WAYSBORT

MARJANA KRAJA Ć

TÂNIA CARVALHO

JAN MARTENS

IRIS EREZ

LISBETH GRUWEZ

3 CALENDAR

MC 93 May, Friday 4, Saturday 5 BOBIGNY 19:30 Hall Christian Bourgois Perrine Valli, Si dans cette chambre un ami attend… (60 min) CREATION 21:00 Salle Oleg Efremov Emmanuelle Huynh, Augures (60 min) CREATION

LA DYNAMO DE May, Wednesday 9, Thursday 10 BANLIEUES BLEUES 20:30 Aurélie Gandit, Histoires de peintures (30 min) CREATION PANTIN + La Variété française est un monstre gluant (60 min)

MAISON DUDUDU THÉÂTRE May, Saturday 12 ETETET DEDEDE LALALA DANSE 20:30 Julie Dossavi, Cross & Share (60 min) CREATION ÉPINAY-SUR-SEINE May, Sunday 13 16:00 Julie Dossavi, Cross & Share (60 min) CREATION

LA CHAUFFERIE May, Saturday 12 SAINT-DENIS 17:00 An Kaler, Insignificant Others (learning to look sideways) (60 min) Lisbeth Gruwez, It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend. (45 min)

May, Sunday 13 18:00 An Kaler, Insignificant Others (learning to look sideways) (60 min) Lisbeth Gruwez, It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend. (45 min)

LE FORUM May, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 BLANC-MESNIL 19:30 Hall Betsy Jolas Elli Medeiros / Mickaël Phelippeau, Sueños (60 min) CREATION 21:00 Hall Barbara DD Dorvillier, Danza Permanente (60 min) CREATION

ESPACE 1789 May, Saturday 19 SAINT-OUEN 17:30 Patricia Brignone, La Danse à l’heure de la performance (90 min) CONFÉRENCE 19:30 PaulPaul----AndréAndré Fortier, Bras de plomb (60 min) 21:00 Tânia Carvalho, 27 os (27 bones) (50 min)

May, Sunday 20 16:30 PaulPaul----AndréAndré Fortier, Bras de plomb (60 min) 18h:00 Tânia Carvalho, 27 os (27 bones) (50 min)

4 CALENDAR

ESPACE MICHELMICHEL----SIMONSIMON May, Tuesday 22 NOISY-LE-GRAND 20:30 Frank Micheletti, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright (60 min)

CENTRE NATIONAL May, Wednesday 23, Thursday 24, Friday 25 DEDEDE LALALA DANSE 19:00 Studio 3 PANTIN Matija Ferlin, SAD SAM Lucky (60 min) CREATION 20:30 Grand Studio Catherine Diverrès, S tance II (25 min) + O Senseï… (34 min) CREATION

LE COLOMBIER May, Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30, Thursday 31

BAGNOLET 20:00 Marjana Kraja ć, Short Fantasy about Reclaiming the Ownership over my Own Body (25 min) Iris Erez , Temporary (17 min) Janet Novás, Cara Pintada (53 min)

NOUVEAU THÉÂTRE June, Friday 1, Saturday 2 MONTREUIL 19:00 Hall Maria Casarès Simone Aughterlony, We need to talk (75 min) 21:00 Hall Jean-Pierre Vernant Liat Waysbort Male Version (22 min) Jan Martens A small guide on how to treat you lifetime companion (30 min) Clara Furey / Benoît Lachambre, Chutes Incandescentes (60 min) CREATION

Shuttles from Paris will be available to the public for performances in Blanc-Mesnil, Épinay-sur-Seine, Noisy-le-Grand and Saint-Denis and for transfers between Saint-Denis and Épinay-sur-Seine .

5 MC93, Bobigny (hall Christian Bourgois) May, Friday 4 - May, Saturday 5 - 19:30

PERRINE VALLI (Switzerland/ France) Si dans cette chambre un ami attend... 60 min. solo CREATION

Conception and choreography Perrine Valli Interpretation Perrine Valli Sound Eric Linder Lights Laurent Schaer Scenography and costumes Thibault Vancraenenbroeck

Drawing inspiration from the feminine figure of Emily Dickinson, If in that room a friend await… uses the bedroom as a metaphor of identity and intimacy. The play centers around what this special place shelters: from love to tears, from sexuality to introspection, from dreams to nightmares and real or metaphorical mourning. Perrine © Akatre Valli takes us through an imaginary journey of the mind, marked by mystery and ambiguity.

Production ・・・Compagnie Sam-Hester Coproduction ・ADC / Geneve, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis Support ・・・Ville de Genève, Loterie romande genèvoise, Pro Helvetia Partners ・・・Micadanses / Paris, Berlin Tanz Wagt

Perrine Valli was born in Aix en Provence in 1980. She studied ballet and contemporary dance at the Conservatory of Aix en Provence. She continued her education at the Hallet Eghayan School, at the same time studying Arts at the University of Lyon. A year later, she was accepted at the National Conservatory of Lyon and in 2001, she entered the CDC (Choreographic Development Center) of Toulouse. After that, she obtained a scholarship to join the London Contemporary Dance School, where she graduated in 2002. After her graduation, she went to America for three months, doing workshops on improvisation with Julyen Hamilton, Nancy Stark Smith, Kirstie Simson, Daniel Lepkoff, Olivier Besson and Andrew de L.Hardwood.

Back in Europe, she went to Switzerland to work with Estelle Heritier at the Arsenic Theatre, on a piece called A5 . She also did a project entitled Temps Morts with the Collective de la Dernière Tangente at the Theatre of Vidy in Lausanne and at the National Theatre of Sénart in Paris. She than met the choreographer Cindy Van Acker with whom she worked on several projects: Corps 00:00 at the Biennale of Venezia and Teatro Comandini in Cesena (directed by Roméo Castelluci) , Pneuma and Puits with Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre. She has also performed in Van Acker’s last creation Kernel , showed at the Grütli theatre of Geneva, with the musician Mika Vainio, Pan Sonic. In 2005, she started her own company called Association Sam-Hester. Her first piece Ma cabane au Canada played at the Usine Theatre in Geneva and at Mains d’Oeuvres, in Paris. In april 2006, she obtained a three year residence at Mains d’Oeuvres in Paris where she created her second piece called Série . This piece wins the first prize at the Masdanza international choreography contest in Spain, and is also chosen for the Swiss platform Tanz > Faktor>Interregio 2008. Perrine Valli presents a third piece Je pense comme une fille enlève sa robe in January 2009, at the festival Faits d'Hiver in Paris and at the theatre l'Usine in Geneva. She receives a research stipendium from Cultures France "Hors les murs" which will take place in Japan in 2009. In may, she has been rewarded with the second prize of the Premio contest in Zurich. At the moment she works on a new piece called Je ne vois pas la femme cachée dans la forêt (« I don't see the woman hidden in the forest »).

6 MC93, Bobigny (hall Oleg Efremov) May, Friday 4 - May, Saturday 5 - 21:00

EMMANUELLE HUYNH (France) Augures 60 min. 7 interpreters CREATION

Conception et choreography Emmanuelle Huynh Artistic collaborator Pascal Queneau Interpretationnterpretation Nuno Bizarro, Talia De Vries, Yoann Demichelis, Corinne Garcia, Fragan Gelkher, Christophe Ives, Betty Tchomanga Interpreters associated to the work Madeleine Fournier, Johann Nohles, Marie Orts, Aline Landreau Scenography and costumes Nadia Lauro Lights Yannick Fouassier © Marc Domage Sound Olivier Renouf Advisor Alexandre Del Perugia Costumes production Michele Amet

A variation channeling the perpetual tensions affecting an individual’s destiny, Emmanuelle Huynh’s new work takes on the myth of the uniqueness of the being. She bases her piece on the constantly evolving, repeating changes affecting the individual from childhood to adulthood, the different faces appearing and disappearing in succession, the resonantly mobile moments of our existence. Accentuated by the rhythm of an unending fall, the performance space becomes a character in its own right, a special point of contact for the seven dancers experiencing mass solitude.

Production ・Centre national de danse contemporaine Angers Coproduction ・Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis

7 LA DYNAMO DE BANLIEUES BLEUES, Pantin May, Wednesday 9 - May, Thursday 10 - 20:30

AURELIE GANDIT (France) Histoires de Peintures 30 min. solo CREATION

Conception et choreography Aurélie Gandit Dance Aurélie Gandit Sound accompaniment Yvain Von Stebut Advisor Marie Cambois

Histoires de peintures is a choreographic interpretation of art historian Daniel Arasse’s work. By associating recorded voices and dancing, this solo seeks to embody the exhilarating texts of a man who “with joy shared an artist’s approach to art history” © Aurélie Gandit and to arouse the audience’s desire to look at paintings in a new way. This solo is based on an excerpt from the book Histoires de peintures (Ed. Denoel) which brings together a written transcription of 25 radio programs recorded by Daniel Arasse for Radio France Culture during the summer of 2003.

Coproduction ・・・Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Compagnie La Brèche - Aurelie Gandit Accueil studio ・・・Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Support ・・・CCN-Ballet de Lorraine et Arsenal de Metz - EPCC Metz en scènes Financial partner ・・・Conseil regional de Lorraine - Aide a la creation Project initiated as part of Transform / Royaumont Foundation in collaboration with Noëlle Simonet

AURELIE GANDIT (France) La variété française est un monstre gluant 60 min. duo

Conception Aurelie Gandit et Matthieu Remy Dance Aurelie Gandit Reading Galaad le Goaster © Julien Demengel Text Matthieu Remy Advisor Perrine Maurin Choreographic glance Marie Cambois Musical hacks Yvain Von Stebut Light Thomas Brouchier Costumes Eleonore Daniaud

Dedicated to French popular music from the 60’s onwards, from Serge Gainsbourg to Michel Sardou, this danced conference investigates its fascinating, exalting and sometimes appalling facets. Matthieu Remy’s words analyse the stylistic devices and the demagogic or terribly philosophical rhetoric of these popular tunes. Galaad Le Goaster’s reading accompanies the danced movements performed by Aurelie Gandit. And vice- versa.

Coproduction ・l’acb - Scène nationale de Bar-le-Duc, Compagnie La Brèche-Aurelie Gandit Partners ・Conseil régional de Lorraine - Aide a la création, Ville de Nancy - Aide a la création, ADDAM 54 Support ・CCN - Ballet de Lorraine

8 MAISON DU THÉÂTRE DE LA DANSE, Épinay-sur-Seine May, Saturday 12 - 20:30 May, Sunday 13 - 16:00

JULIE DOSSAVI (France) Cross & Share 60 min. 3 interpreters CREATION

Conception Julie Dossavi Shared choregraphy Julie Dossavi, Hamid Ben Mahi, Serge-Aime Coulibaly, Thomas Lebrun © Grégory Brandel Direction Julie Dossavi et Michel Schweizer Dramaturgy et scenography Michel Schweizer Interpretation dance Julie Dossavi Interpretation vocals Moira Interpretation piano and musical composition Olivier Oliver Texts Michel Schweizer Light Ivan Mathis Costumes Julie Dossavi

Cross & Share delves into the idea of the solo dance “as being many on the stage” by utilizing artistic collaborations around a principle of shared creation. It gives Julie Dossavi the opportunity to open her work up to new spaces, confronting new artistic universes. After composing and interpreting solos and having asked the choregrapher Daniel Larrieu to write a solo for her in 2004 (still actively performed), Julie Dossavi explores a third path, that of co-composition, co-writing with two authors, choregraphers, musicians, and a director: Thomas Lebrun, Serge-Aimé Coulibaly, Hamid Ben Mahi and Michel Schweizer. This question of dialogues, of exchanges of universes, of languages, of visions is constantly present in Julie Dossavi’s oeuvre.

Production ・Compagnie Julie Dossavi Coproduction ・Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Les Treize Arches / Nouveau Theatre de Brive, Compagnie Hors Serie, Centre chorégraphique national de la Rochelle - Poitou-Charentes, Kader Attou - Compagnie Accroprap et CNCDC Chateauvallon - accueil studio Support ・les Ballets C de la B, Gand, Belgique, Maison des 3 Quartiers, Centre de Beaulieu et Espace Mendes France, Poitiers, Centre national de la danse, Pantin, Centre chorégraphique national de Tours, Maison du Theatre et de la Danse d’Epinay-sur-Seine

La compagnie Julie Dossavi est subventionnée par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / Drac Poitou-Charentes au titre de l’aide a la compagnie, la Région Poitou-Charentes et le Département de la Vienne par qui elle est conventionnée. Julie Dossavi est artiste en partage au Centre chorégraphique national de La Rochelle.

9 LA CHAUFFERIE, Saint-Denis May, Saturday 12 - 17:00 May, Sunday 13 - 18:00

AN KALER (Austria) Insignificant Others (learning to look sideways) 60 min. trio

Conception An Kaler Interpretation Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, An Kaler, Antonija Livingstone Lights Bruno Pocheron © Eva Würdinger Scenography Stephanie Rauch Music and sound Brendan Dougherty Dramaturgy Heike Albrecht

Insignificant Others is part of a longterm physical and creative practice An Kaler develops in exchange with different artists. Extending the previous study on notions of the still (image) in movement the upcoming edition – (learning to look sideways) – adresses the processes of the performers co-operating in modes of conducting, structuring and shifting a shared topography of physical presence and absence. Harboured in that which is deemed unaffirmative pure potential is what is performed.

Production · An Kaler, e.V. c/o das Schaufenster, Vienne Coproduction · Tanzquartier Wien, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Tanztage Berlin Support · Wien Kultur / Département de la culture de Vienne, Forum culturel autrichien, Advancing performing arts project et Turbo Residence Impulstanz

LISBETH GRUWEZ (Belgium) It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend. 45 min. solo

Conception, dance et choreography Lisbeth Gruwez Composition, sound designer and assistant Maarten Van Cauwenberghe Costumes Véronique Branquinho Advisor Bart Meuleman Lights Harry Cole, Caroline Mathieu

A speech can be a mighty weapon. Throughout the centuries it has enthused countless masses and galvanized them into action, for better or for worse. It has unleashed revo- lutions and fueled wars. Just by the power of words. But a speech does not only en- thuse the hearers, often it also transposes the speaker into a state of trance. Then he loses himself in a stream of words, in an obsessive, ecstatic way of speaking. The po- © Luc Depreitere wer of a speech often depends on the trance of the speaker. In It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend Lisbeth Gruwez dances the trance of that ecstatic speechifying. In the process, she takes advantage of fragments from a speech by the ultraconservative American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Initially the parlance is frien- dly and pacifying, but from his compulsive desire to persuade transpires growing des- pair. Eventually it exposes its deepest nature: violence.

Production ・・・Voetvolk vzw Coproduction ・・・Grand Theater Groningen, Troubleyn / Jan Fabre, Theater Im Pumpenhaus Diffusion ・・・Key Performance Support ・・・Provincie West-Vlaanderen, Vlaamse Gemeenschap

10 LE FORUM, Blanc-Mesnil (hall Betsy Jolas) May, Tuesday 15 - May, Wednesday 16 - 19:30

ELLI MEDEIROS ET MICKAËL PHELIPPEAU (France) Sueños 60 min. duo CREATION

Conception and interpretation Elli Medeiros, Mickaël Phelippeau Sound Éric Yvelin Lights Érik Houiller Assistants Pascale Paoli, Valérie Castan

© Pascale Paoli Sueños is a two-headed choreographic self-portrait created by Elli Medeiros and Mickaël Phelippeau. Before they met, all they knew about each other was that he loved her song Toi mon toit , and that she loved his photographic series of “bi-portraits”. When they met in 2008 to create the bi-portrait Elli M ., he discovered a prolific artist. In 2011, he invited her to collaborate on a joint choreographic project. She accepted, suggesting the title: Sueños (“Dreams”...in Spanish because he likes the sound of Elli’s mother tongue) to “shape and stage each others dreams”... the dreams you dream, and the dreams you have.

Production · bi-p association Coproduction · Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Le Quartz, Brest, Scène nationale d’Orléans Support for the creation · Région Centre Support · La Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-Vallée, Ménagerie de Verre, dans le cadre des Studiolab, Paris, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Théâtre de Gennevilliers - Centre dramatique national de création contemporaine, Collector Lille 2011, dans le cadre du projet Code de Nuit © Cécile Paris Residence · Emmetrop / Bourges

ElliElliElli MedeirosMedeiros, singer, songwriter, actress, designer and director, born in Montevideo (Uruguay) lives and works between France, Argentina and Uruguay.

Mickaël PhelippeauPhelippeau, dance and visual artist born in Nantes, lives and works in France. He is an associate artist atLe Quartz - scène nationale de Brest.

Rencontres chorégraphiques 2011 Number of objects

11 LE FORUM, Blanc-Mesnil (hall Barbara) May, Tuesday 15 - May, Wednesday 16 - 21:00

DD DORVILLIER / HUMANE FUTURE DANCE CORPS (USA) Danza Permanente 60 min. 4 interpreters CREATION

Choreography and concept DD Dorvillier Sound design and musical direction Zeena Parkins Interpretation Fabian Barba, Nuno Bizarro, Walter Dundervill, Naiara Mendioroz Artistic assistant Heather Kravas Lights Thomas Dunn © Zeena Parkins The choreography of Danza Permanente comes from a musical composition created in Vienna two centuries ago by a deaf man. Initially written for four stringed instruments, the score is transposed into movement for four dancers. They embody the musical structure, behaviors, and dynamics of the string quartet over time, and through space. The dancers behave as sound, in their becoming of visible music in silence.

Production ・・・Human future dance corps Coproduction ・・・Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, The Kitchen, New York, Etats-Unis, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leven, Belgique, Centre national de danse contemporaine, Angers, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Allemagne Support ・・・MAP Fund avec l’aide de la Doris Duke Charitable Foundation et de la Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, French-US Exchange in Dance, National Dance Project / New England Foundation for the Arts, Services culturels de l’Ambassade de France a New-York, French America, Cultural Exchange soutenu par la Doris Duke Charitable Foundation et la Florence Gould Foundation, Bourse de recherche chorégraphique de la John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Residence ・・・STUK, PACT, Performing Art Forum, CNDC Angers, Menagerie de Verre dans le cadre des Studiolab

DD Dorvillier is a choreographer and performer from New York. Through her company, human future dance corps, she has produced many works, presenting them in the US, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. She has also taught worldwide in state and private institutions, festivals, and schools. She has worked with David Bergé in different capacities including the creation of a collaborative the photo-installation Half a Train (2007). Her work Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding, Get Ready! was presented in Belgium most recently at Kaai Theater, and deSingel. Recent collaborative projects include: The Blanket Dance (2011) with Frédéric Gies and Jefta van Dinther, Pièce Sans Paroles (2010) with Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen, RMW (a) & RMW (2004) with Jennifer Monson, and Anarchive #2:secondhand ( 2010) with Deuffert/Plishke. In 2003 she received a Bessie for her quartet Dressed for Floating and in 2010 for her performance in Parades & Changes, replays , a re-activation of Anna Halprin’s seminal Parades & Changes (1965), directed by French choreographer Anne Collod. Dorvillier maintains on-going artistic partnerships with Composer Zeena Parkins and Lighting Designer Thomas Dunn. She has worked with many artists including: Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, Yvonne Meier, Heather Kravas, Elizabeth Ward, Jonathan Bepler, and Karen Finley, among others. She has been awarded with fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2000), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2007), and the Guggenheim Foundation (2011). Her upcoming project, Danza Permanente, will permiere at STUK in Leuven in May 2012.

Rencontres chorégraphiques 2010 Pièces sans paroles , in collaboration with Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen.

12 ESPACE 1789, Saint-Ouen May, Saturday 19 - 19:30 May, Sunday 20 - 16:30

PAULPAUL----ANDRÉANDRÉ FORTIER (Canada, Quebec) Bras de plomb 50 min. solo

Choreography Paul-André Fortier Interpretation Simon Courchel Set design and accessories Betty Goodwin Original music Gaetan Leboeuf Lights jpt Costumes Carmen Alie and Denis Lavoie from an original concept by Betty Goodwin Direction of the repetitions and assistant choreographer Ginelle Chagnon

The solo piece Bras de plomb originated from an inspired encounter between dancer- choreographer Paul-André Fortier and visual artist Betty Goodwin in 1993. From these two artists’ obsession for the human body emerged this fascinating work. Paul-André Fortier has chosen to hand over this work to dancer Simon Courchel, who will perform with the technical maturity, stamina and charisma this outstanding piece requires. The arms, at first free and fluid, gradually become imprisoned and movement then shifts to the legs. The dance proceeds in a plodding manner, contrasting with the lead casing, opening the door to a beautiful and unique experience.

Support ・・・Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Emploi Québec Fortier Danse-Création is an active member of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique.

PaulPaulPaul-Paul ---AndréAndré Fortier founded his company in 1979. His highly theatrical and rigorous style of choreography comments on the modern world and has had a significant impact on his peers and a whole new generation of choreographers. His creative work is recognized on an international level and is distinguished by its search for renewal and a desire to surpass itself. Fortier describes himself as “a man who dances” and constantly challenges himself to meet the highest of artistic standards.

13 ESPACE 1789, Saint-Ouen May, Saturday 19 - 21:00 May, Sunday 20 - 18:00

TÂNIA CARVALHO (Portugal) 27 OS [27 BONES] 60 min. 3 interpreters and 1 pianist CREATION

Direction, choreography Tânia Carvalho Toy piano Joana Gama Interpretation Luis Guerra, Luís Antunes, Sandra Rosado © Tânia Carvalho Music Diogo Alvim Costumes Aleksandar Protic Characterization Tânia Carvalho Lights Zeca Iglésias

Being on stage puts forward a complex situation in between pleasure and fear. Fear of not being accepted, or understood. Fear of failure. In a sense it represents our life and the way we live. We are constantly trying to find some sort of balance between being what we want to be and being accepted by others. “Fear” lives within us, it forces us to sway and move. These are sublime movements, nevertheless thought through and planned to the last detail, containing a strong and complex emotional charge. A dance piece composed with the help of abstract movements which are then destroyed by a strange presence, something akin to the figuration of fear. Fear of failure.

Production ・・・Bomba Suicida Coproduction ・・・Teatro Viriato, Viseu, Cine Taetro Joaquim D’Almeida, Montijo Residence ・・・O Espaco do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo, Cine Teatro S. Pedro, Alcanena and Teatro Viriato, Viseu Support ・・・Alkantara, Balletshop, Lisbonne Thanks ・・・Margarida Dias Bomba suicide is funded by the Government of Portugal - Secretary of State for Culture

Tânia Carvalho was born in 1976, Portugal. Started classical dance with five years old. In 1991 attended the first year of Superior Dance School (Lisbon, Portugal). Attended the two years course of Contemporary Dance for interpreters in Forum Dança (Lisbon). In 2005 attended the Choreography Course in the creativity and artistic program supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal). As a dancer worked with Francisco Camacho, Carlota Lagido, David Miguel, Filipe Viegas and Vera Mantero. Also worked as an actress with Projecto Teatral and participated in some video projects.

14 ESPACE MICHEL-SIMON, Noisy-le-Grand May, Tuesday 22 - 20:30

FRANK MICHELETTI (France) Tiger Tiger Burning Bright… 60 min. 6 interpreters

Conception and choreoraphy Frank Micheletti Interpretation Viktoria Andersson, Idio Chichava, Ikue Nakagawa, Péter Juhasz, Csaba © Laurent Thurin Nal Varga, Livia Bazalova Lights Ivan Mathis

From this constant acceleration as it is experienced in towns, the phenomena linked to dynamism will be explored: fluidity, new social relationships, multiple stimulations and to test their limits: tension, agitation, disturbance, pressure… Facing the changes engendered by the accelerations, the movements, the mutations of society, how do we position and find ourselves and each other? How can these new ways of existence be shared while respecting one’s intimate and collective desires, those that gradually appearing in the construction of a renewal of the way of living?

Production ・・・Kubilai Khan Investigations Coproduction ・・・Réseau Escales danse en Val d’Oise, CNCDC Châteauvallon, Le Manège - Scène nationale de Maubeuge, Macon scène nationale, Association Beaumarchais-SACD, Support ・・・Ballet national de Marseille dans le cadre de l’accueil studio Residence ・・・Réseau Escales danse en Val d’Oise (Espace Germinal, Fosses, L’Apostrophe - Scène nationale de Cergy, Theatre Paul Eluard, Bezons), CNCDC Châteauvallon, Ballet national de Marseille

Kubilai Khan Investigations est conventionnée par le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication / DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, subventionnée par la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, le Conseil général du Var et la Ville de Toulon. Elle reçoit le soutien de l’Institut français pour ses projets a l’étranger.

15 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA DANSE, Pantin (studio 3) May, Wednesday 23 - May, Thursday 24 - May, Friday 25 - 19:00

MATIJA FERLIN (Croatia) SAD SAM Lucky 60 min. solo CREATION

Choreography and interpretation Matija Ferlin Dramaturgy Goran Fer čec © Mauricio Ferlin TextTextText Sre čko Kosovel Music Luka Prin čić Scenography Mauricio Ferlin Lights Sa ša Fistri ć Costumes Matija Ferlin GraphicsGraphicsTina Ivezi ć Visuel Christophe Chemin Photo Danko Stjepanovi ć Assistant Ana Kova čevi ć

SAD SAM Lucky s’inscrit dans une série de pièces ayant vu le jour à Amsterdam en 2004, et s’appuie sur le travail du poète slovène Sre ćko Kosovel, empreint d’ironie, de profondeur, et d’un sentiment de tragédie qui inspirent le chorégraphe au point qu’il les transforme en manifeste corporel.

Production Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Centre national de la danse Coproduction Zagreb dance center, Emanat Organization Emanat Partners Festival de danse et théâtre non verbal - San Vincenti Support Ministère de la Culture de la République de Slovénie, La municipalité - ville de Ljubljana, La municipalité - ville de Pula.

16 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA DANSE, Pantin (Grand Studio) May, Wednesday 23 - May, Thursday 24 - May, Friday 25 - 20:30

CATHERINE DIVERRÈS (France) Ô Sensei… 34 min. solo CREATION

Choreography et interpretation Catherine Diverrès Scenic andandand artistic collaboration Laurent Peduzzi Lights Marie Christine Soma Costumes Cidalia da Costa Musics Keiji Haino, Seijiro Murayama, Frédéric Chopin, Ingrid Caven,, J S BACH © Kourit Masson Sékiné « Ohno’s art is so unique that in the language of Butoh itself, he is Butoh, a sort of hyphen between the worlds of the living and the dead. My experience with Ohno was a deep, radical revolution, involving my entire being. I took my entire choreographic vocabulary and language, accumulated over so many years –and chose to start over, tabula rasa . » Catherine Diverrès

Production Compagnie Catherine Diverrès / Association d’octobre Coproduction le CDC – Les Hivernales, le Centre national de la danse - Pantin, les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, le Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne, le Centre chorégraphique national de Caen / Basse-Normandie dans le cadre de l'accueil-studio. Thanks Collectif Rennes Métropole

Stance II 25 min. solo

Choreography Catherine Diverrès Interpretation Carole Gomes Lights Marie-Christine Soma Assistée de Pierre Gaillardot Costumes Cidalia da Costa PoemPoemPoem La Terra di Lavoro de et dit par Pier Paolo Pasolini Music Eiji Nakazawa

In Stance II , a lone female figure in a long dress, stands silhouetted against a background of golden light. While Pier Paola Pasolini’s La Terra di lavoro plays into the void, she moves with her shadow to create a graceful and courageous response to the sad words of the song. Stance II was influenced by Diverrès’ time spent with Kazuo Ohno, a seminal practitioner of the post-war Japanese dance form, Butoh, and echoes the beauty and grace of classical Chinese and Japanese paintings. © Tristan Valès « In her solo, Catherine Diverres unfolds time. Her presence and her gestures open up abstract spaces, ineffable and intangible ». Irene Filiberti

Command of the 9 ème Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne. Coproduction Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Théâtre Romain Rolland, Villejuif, La Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne, La Ville de Villejuif, Le Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes. Aide à la création Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne

Catherine Diverrès made her mark in the 1980s when, turning her back on the dominant concepts of American postmodern dance and her classical training, she developed her own choreographic language and style. Dominated by striking visuals and poetic gestures, her work is provocative and profound.

Rencontres chorégraphiques 2007 Blowin’

17 LE COLOMBIER, Bagnolet May, Tuesday 29 - May, Wednesday 30 - May, Thursday 31 - 20:00

MARJANA KRAJA Ć (Croatia) Short Fantasy about Reclaiming the Ownership over my Own Body 25 min. solo

Conception et interpretation Marjana Krajac Dramaturgy Marko Kostanic Lights Bojan Gagic © Sodaberg Graphics Valentina Toth

« My body is not owned by me. However essential my embodiment may be for my own existence, I am not the owner of my body. My body is repressed by protocols, architecture, space structures, other bodies, at times my body is also repressed by it’s very self. If I am not the owner of it then that means that I am sharing it with some other instances, that some other instances too claim and execute the right to use my body: to navigate it, to count on it, to take my body into the responsibility. » Marjana Kraja č

Realisation, production, partners ・・・Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, Zagreb Dance Center, Danceweek Festival, Teatro Viriato Viseu Portugal, RE.AL Lisbon, W-Est_Where Programme, Ministry of Culture of Republic Croatia and City Office for Culture Zagreb, Sodaberg, Tanzfabrik Berlin. Thanks ・・・Joao Fiadeiro, Una Bauer et libela.org

Marjana Kraja č is choreographer, author and dancer. She graduated from State School for Contemporary Dance “Ana Maleti ć” in Zagreb, Academy of Performing Arts in Berlin and has also studied theology and religion science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She worked with Grupe Dunes in Marseille, collaborated with Mårten Spångberg and Meg Stuart in projects Choreographers’ Venture - The Adventure and Everyday Heroes/Extern Sources. She is a past recipient of the DanceWEB scholarship and Mobile Academy Berlin scholarship with master classes of Chen Shi Zheng, Jossi Wieler and Ulrike Haage where she specializes in opera material research. In 2009 her project THE STORE was nominated for T-HT Award of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. Author of 11 full-evening works, her choreographic work reaches to limitless formats always stretching the notion of what choreographic practice, as well as what art as such, can and dare to propose as aesthetic and cultural statement. She worked for and with numerous regional and internationals venues and festivals, and in 2008 her choreographic work „Ariadne on Naxos“ was selected for Enhanced danceWEB Europe Contemporary Dance Coproduction Programme, Vienna. She lives and works between Berlin and Zagreb where she developed collaborative Sodaberg.

IRIS EREZ (Israel) Temporary 17 min. solo

Choreography Iris Erez Interpretation Maya Weinberg Music Hanayo, Vanessa Paradis Music publishing Jeremy Berenheim, Yaniv Mintzer © Bart Grietens Production Sharon Aloni Lights Tamar Orr

A dancer in her own space, trying to capture time through the paradox of destruction and production her body holds. Mundane clothes become metaphorical references ranging from body parts to memories, and raising questions about femininity, performance, exposure, and our ability to say something meaningful.

18 LE COLOMBIER, Bagnolet May, Tuesday 29 - May, Wednesday 30 - May, Thursday 31 - 20:00

JANET NOVNOVÁÁÁÁSSSS (Spain) Cara Pintada 53 min. solo

Concept Janet Novás Interpretation Janet Novás Assistant Ricardo Santana © Piti Prieto Original music Haru Mori Costumes Juana Rodríguez Lights Pedro Fresneda, Antón Ferreiro Photos Piti Prieto, Juan Adrio Video Tía Mardalina

Janet Novás is on the stage, on her own. Then, she gradually surrounds herself with a world she builds up, her world. She recalls all her souvenirs and calls for her future, she sets the present time, hangs empty frames on the wall, a gallery of different mysterious characters that is full of promises. When the show is over, Janet is not alone any more as she has made us join her through transmitting her strength, her emotion, her energy. We now belong to her family, we are now part of the galleries she has installed. Never again will she be out of frame…

Collaboration ・・・Provisional Danza, Madrid, Centro Cultural Garcia Lorca, Bruxelles

19 NOUVEAU THÉÂTRE, Montreuil (hall Maria Casarès) June, Friday 1 , June, Saturday 2 - 19:00

SIMONE AUGHTERLONY (Switzerland) We need to talk 70 min. solo (subtitles)

Conception et interpretation Simone Aughterlony. Dramaturgy Jorge León. Musical direction Marcel Blatti. Music Sounds of Earth , Golden Record compiled by Nasa in 1977. Lights Ursula Degen. © Jorge Leon Graphics Bringolf Irion Vögeli, David Bühler, Natalie Bringolf, Aline Dallo, Kristin Irion, Zurich

« If we want to continue beyond the next 100 years our future is in outer space. » Stephen Hawking

In We need to talk , Simone Aughterlony endeavours to marry the last 33 years of the Voyager spacecrafts journey through space and time with her own existence and scant travels. She peers up with Voyagers onboard passenger: the Golden Record and it’s selection of sounds, images and music designed to encapsulate life on planet Earth and destined for any extraterrestrial civilization that may encounter it. Simone becomes embroiled in some kind of improbable dialogue whereby biographical details, anecdotal dances and thoughts on a possible future collide with the record’s eclectic compilation.

Production Verein für allgemeines Wohl. Coproduction Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern. Support Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Pro Helvetia Schweizer Kulturstiftung.

Simone Aughterlony (1977) graduated from the New Zealand School of Dance in 1995. Since moving to Europe she has been involved with various artists in the roles of both performer/deviser and as a choreographer. She joined Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods in 2000 and worked on the productions of Highway 101 and Alibi among others. She has choreographed for theatre productions in Schauspielhaus Zürich, Volksbühne Berlin and Burg Theatre Wien under the direction of Falk Richter, Stephan Pucher and Niklaus Helbling. Simone first began the production of her own performance work in 2003 with the presentation of her solo Public Property . Her subsequent works Performers on Trial and the group work Ba re Back Lying have toured extensively in Europe. She collaborated with the video artist Meika Dresenkamp to create Between Amateurs in 2006. Upon invitation from SPIELART Münich, Simone created the duet Tonic which was presented upon recommendation of Tim Etchells in the frame of What’s Next? in November 2007. The group work The Best and the Worst of Us premiered in February 2008 and toured Europe as did the recent collaborative work with Isabelle Schad Sweet dreams are made . Most recently, Simone collaborated with filmmaker Jorge Leon on the project To serve , a trilogy on the subject of domestic servitude that premiered at Kunsten Festival Brussels in May 2010.

Rencontres chorégraphiques 2007 Performers on Trial 2009 The Best and the Worst of Us

20 NOUVEAU THÉÂTRE, Montreuil (hall Jean-Pierre Vernant) June, Friday 1, June, Saturday 2 - 21:00

LIAT WAYSBORT (Netherlands / Israel) Male Version 22 min. duo

Choreography Liat Waysbort Interpretation Maarten Hunink et Martjn Kappers Music Rage against the Machine, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley Lights Remko van Wely © Pepijn Lutgerink Costumes Liat Waysbort Dramaturgy Peggy Olislaegers

The tragic elements in the life of Elvis Presley has intrigued Liat Waysbort and inspired her to take a closer look into the male universe. Dansateliers invited her to explore her fascination and research how manhood relates to physical expression, rock and roll and hip movements. In Male Version Liat Waysbort challenges our traditional views of masculinity, as it is reinforced by nowadays popular culture. Male Version was created in collaboration with two dancers of the Conny Janssen Danst company.

Production Dansateliers Coproduction Conny Janssen Danst

Choreographer and dancer Liat Waysbort has gradually realised that her identity is inextricably linked to her roots - an identity that is clearly formed by the specific history of Israel, where she was born and raised. Waysbort’s roots play an ever-increasing role in her performances. She is fascinated by memories: how our bodies retain them, their emotional impact. Memories that Waysbort calls up and translates to the present. Her work is warm and powerfully emotional, but not sentimental. Liat Waysbort was born in 1974 in Tel Aviv where she began her dance training. She danced with the Bat-Sheva Ensemble and the Bat-Sheva Dance Company. She moved to the Netherlands in 2000 and studied choreography at Rotterdam Codarts. Besides working as dancer and choreographer, Waysbort teaches at the Amsterdam School for the Arts.

Jan Martens (Belgium / Netherlands) A small guide on how to treat you lifetime companion 30 min. duo

Concept Jan Martens Performance Jan Martens, Steefka Zijlstra Costumes Olivier Waelkens Repeater Peter Seynaeve © Stephane Van Hesteren A small guide on how to treat your lifetime companion is a wordless moving image, an intimate performance on a small surface. It is a couple dance in the most literal sense of the word: without leaving each other’s sides, Jan Martens and Steefka Zijlstra show five key moments in a relationship. With A small guide on how to treat your lifetime companion Jan Martens creates a piece about love, a tender and intimate performance both comforting and confronting.

Production ・・・Frascati Thanks ・・・United-C, Productiehuis Brabant, kc nOna and STUK Leuven

Jan Martens (1984) was born in Belgium and received his dance training at the Royal Conservatory for Dance at the Artesis Academy in Antwerp. And also at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg. As a dancer Jan Martens was featured in works by a.o. Koen de Preter, United-C and Ann Van den Broek. Since 2009 he has been developing his own pieces as well. Instead of focusing on dansante virtuosity or complex choreography Jan centers his work around the ugliness and beauty of everyman.

21 NOUVEAU THÉÂTRE, Montreuil (hall Jean-Pierre Vernant) June, Friday 1, June, Saturday 2 - 21:00

CLARA FUREY / BENOÎT LACHAMBRE (Canada, Quebec) Chutes incandescentes 60 min. duo CREATION

Concept et choreography Benoît Lachambre Music ans musical direction Clara Furey Interpretation Benoît Lachambre et Clara Furey Texts Jellalludin Rûmi, in english, Benoît Lachambre, in french, inspired by © Francis Ducharme Mahâbhârata , and Clara Furey , Nobody Knows and Black Crown Lumières Lucie Bazzo Scénographie Benoît Lachambre avec la collaboration d’Annick La Bissonnière Création des accessoires Alain Jenkins Regard extérieur Céline Bonnier

Choreographer-dancer Benoît Lachambre and autor-compositor-performer Clara Furey share a common dream and combine their talents in a solo for two body unclassifiable and passionate. Inspire by Rumi’s poem and text from Mahâbhârata , they invite us to face up to the incandescent falling of Ravana the demon, through a dream where Ravana’s phobias are mixed with semi-god Rama’s disguised interventions, those of the beautiful Sita and Hanuman – Monkey God warrior. Voices embrace piano riveted to bodies that become instruments of darkness and light.

Production ・・・Par B.L.eux, Montreal Coproduction ・・・Festival TransAmeriques, Montréal, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine- Saint-Denis, Agora de la Danse, Montréal Financial support ・・・Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Ministère des affaires étrangeres du Canada, Conseil des arts de Montréal Special thanks ・・・Théâtre de Quat’Sous, Montréal, Ong Keng Sen pour le solo « … Comme un chat assis au bord d’un océan de lait, espérant le lécher au complet », créé avec et pour Benoît Lachambre et qui a servi a la mise en chantier de ce travail

Benoît Lachambre is a Montréal-based choreographer, dancer, improviser, teacher and artistic director of his own company Par B.L.eux founded in 1996. Benoît has been a part of the international dance community for the past thirty years. He began his career in jazz and modern dance with companies as Les ballets-Jazz de Montréal, Pointépiénu and Toronto Dance Theater before he moved to New York and danced and studied with Stéphanie Skura and Nina Martin, among others. Since then he has devoted himself to an exploratory approach of movement and its sources and to seeking authenticity of motion. In his works, Benoît exploresthe dynamics of communication and perception, and elements of the visual and performance arts are inseparable from dance. Par B.L.eux is devoted to contemporary and interdisciplinary choreographic creation, and the close connection to an international network of artists. The company has toured around the world, essentially in Europe, but also in the Americas and Asia.