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Tero Saarinen Company the Boston Camerata Borrowed Light 13 Au 15 Mars 2014 Danse Musique Borrowed Light Tero Saarinen Company The Boston Camerata Borrowed Light 13 au 15 mars 2014 DANSE MUSIQUE Borrowed Light Chorégraphie Tero Saarinen Avec les danseurs de la Tero Saarinen Musique originale des Shakers Company : Satu Halttunen, Henrikki réarrangée par Joel Cohen Heikkila, Annika Hyvärinen, Carl Knif, Sini Direction musicale Joel Cohen Lansivuori, Pekka Louhio, Maria Nurmela, et Anne Azéma Heikki Vienola Lumières et scénographie Mikki Kunttu Costumes Erika Turunen Avec les chanteurs de The Boston Camerata : Son Heikki Iso-Ahola Anne Azéma (soprano), Carolann Buff (mezzo-soprano), Susan Consoli (soprano), Directrice générale Iiris Autio / Directeur technique Daniel Hershey (ténor), Joel Nesvadba Ville Konttinen / Responsable de la diffusion (baryton), Camila Parias (soprano), internationale Johanna Rajamäki / Responsable de tournée Maiju Lempinen / Responsable de la Ryan Turner (ténor), Donald Wilkinson communication et du marketing Terhi Mikkonen / (baryton-basse) Régie lumières Eero Auvinen / Régie son Marco Melchior / Diffusion en France DLB – Didier Liste des chants : In Yonder Valley, Solemn LeBesque Song, Clamanda & March, Mother Ann’s Comforting Promise, Holy Order Song, Production Tero Saarinen Company Coproduction Octobre en Normandie / Dansens Unnamed dance tune, Repentance, I Have Hus (Suède) / Kuopio Dance Festival (Finlande) / a Soul to be Saved or Lost, Fall on the et Festival Civitanova Danza (Italie) / Le Volcan – Rock, Voice of the Angels of Mercy, Virgins scène nationale du Havre / Teatri di Civitanova Clothed in a Clean White Garment, Verdant (Italie) / Atelier 231 – Pôle régional des arts de la rue – Sotteville-lès-Rouen Grove, Simple Gifts, Turning Shuffle Tune, O ho, the Pretty Chain, The Great Wheel, Avec le soutien de Culture 2000 – Programme de l’Union européenne, du ministère de l’Éducation Mother’s Warning, Mother Ann’s Song, et de la Culture en Finlande, du Conseil national Encouragement, O Will You Sing Another pour la danse en Finlande, de la Fondation Song, Holy Mother’s Protecting Chain Florence Gould Remerciements à la ville d’Helsinki (Finlande) Transcription des chants shaker Anne Azéma, et à l’ambassade de Finlande à Paris Joel Cohen et Donald Patterson / Mixage et Photos : couverture © Laurent Philippe ; ci-contre arrangements Joel Cohen (SACEM) © Sakari Viika, Jonas Lundqvist, Sakari Viika Remerciements à la communauté Shaker de Sabbathday Lake (Maine) pour l’autorisation d’utiliser des sources manuscrites inédites DU 13 AU 15 MARS 2014 MARS 19h JEU 13, VEN 14 17h SAM 15 Salle Jean Vilar Durée 1h10 La spiritualité par le mouvement Tero Saarinen s’intéresse aux Shakers depuis la fin des années 1980, lorsqu’il voit pour la première fois un documentaire La musique shaker sur les chorégraphies de Doris Humphrey inspirées des Shakers. Ce mouvement religieux radical des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles aux La musique shaker emploie les moyens les plus simples pour valeurs communautaires fortes et à l’esthétique fonctionnaliste atteindre des niveaux de beauté et d’intensité émotionnelle d’une saisissante beauté le marque profondément. Au fil des ans, extraordinaires. La plupart du temps, les formes sont courtes il a continué à étudier l’architecture, le design et les idées des et binaires, et utilisent le langage mélodique et modal des Shakers. Dans les années 2000, le chorégraphe découvre l’album chansons folkloriques anglaises. Les compositeurs de ces de musique shaker de The Boston Camerata, Simple Gifts. La pièces étaient des Shakers ordinaires encouragés par la répétition obsessionnelle de cette musique le bouleverse et l’idée communauté à exprimer leur spiritualité par le chant. d’une nouvelle création commence à germer dans son esprit. En À l’apogée du mouvement shaker, l’interprétation de cette 2002, il contacte Joel Cohen, directeur artistique de la Camerata musique était exclusivement vocale, interprétée par une pour évoquer la possibilité d’une coproduction. Au début du communauté chaste, a cappella et à l’unisson. Ainsi, ce processus de création, Cohen a fredonné des mélodies à Saarinen. répertoire de musique vocale sacrée est d’une certaine À partir de centaines de chants archivés, ils en ont sélectionné manière l’équivalent américain du chant grégorien. vingt, certains inédits. Saarinen et Cohen se sont rendus dans Toutefois, une différence importante avec ce dernier est la communauté de Sabbathday Lake pour rencontrer quatre la présence fréquente de rythmes de danse enlevés qui font Shakers encore en vie à ce moment-là. Il a fallu dix-huit mois de ces chants, hier comme aujourd’hui, de parfaits moyens d’un travail acharné pour que Saarinen finalise la chorégraphie et d’expression du sentiment religieux par le mouvement. la forme visuelle de Borrowed Light. Le titre de la création s’inspire Plusieurs milliers de ces chants ont été transcrits par les d’une pratique architecturale courante des Shakers consistant Shakers, mais jusqu’à récemment seuls quelques-uns à intégrer aux pièces des fenêtres intérieures afin d’optimiser la étaient connus en dehors de la communauté. L’essentiel lumière du jour et la productivité. La lumière est traitée comme de la musique de Borrowed Light a été transcrit à partir de une métaphore religieuse. L’univers visuel de l’œuvre s’appuie manuscrits et reste inédit à ce jour. Pour deux chants, en sur une esthétique de la frugalité et l’accentuation des contraires. l’occurrence Repentance et Verdant Grove nous pensons que Les costumes mêlent feutrage épais et tissus légers transparents. Borrowed Light les donne à entendre pour la première fois L’éclairage joue sur les contrastes entre ombres mystiques en dehors de la communauté, et ce depuis plus de 150 ans. et lumière intense. Au-delà de la forte influence des Shakers, Borrowed Light aborde le thème de la société communautaire en JOEL COHEN général comme l’explique Tero Saarinen : « Ma principale source d’inspiration était les Shakers et, au final, je n’ai utilisé que de la musique shaker originale ; le propos de cette création n’est pas le « shakerisme », mais plutôt la communauté et la dévotion. Pour moi, la nature d’un engagement – qu’il soit religieux, artistique ou politique – est fondamentalement la même. » Repères Le choix de la libraire À la librairie du théâtre (sous réserve) : • Être ensemble : Figures de la Fondée en 1996 par le chorégraphe Tero Ensemble américain de musique communauté en danse, CND Saarinen (déjà venu à Chaillot en 2010 ancienne, The Boston Camerata est • DVD Une chaise pour un ange, en tant qu’interprète de Blue Lady de fondée en 1954, au sein de la collection documentaire de Raymond St-Jean sur les Shakers, avec des extraits Carolyn Carlson), la Tero Saarinen d’instruments anciens du musée des du spectacle Company défend des valeurs Beaux-Arts de Boston. Sous la direction • The Boston Camerata, Simple Gifts humanistes fondamentales et incite de Joel Cohen entre 1968 et 2008, elle et trois autres albums les individus à prendre davantage est aujourd’hui dirigée par la soprano conscience de leur réalité corporelle française, Anne Azéma. Son répertoire et de son importance pour vivre bien. embrasse les musiques savantes Bientôt à Chaillot... La compagnie dirige un programme anciennes aussi bien européennes • Éric Lamoureux / Thierry Thieû Niang d’enseignement international, tourne qu’américaines, ainsi que leur rapports Une douce imprudence (danse) dans le monde entier et collabore avec avec les traditions orales et populaires Un poème chorégraphique entre deux d’autres grandes institutions de la danse de ces mêmes continents. Enseignement, complices de la danse, un partage des comme le Nederlands Dans Theater, recherches, concerts et enregistrements pensées, des émotions et des sensations la Batsheva Dance Company, le Ballet contribuent à son rayonnement à travers où les corps se prêtent au mouvement de l’Opéra de Lyon et le Ballet national le monde. La discographie – d’une qui les unit. 25 au 28 mars de Finlande. Les influences de Saarinen, quarantaine de titres – de la Camerata • Catherine Diverrès connu pour son écriture gestuelle unique a été distinguée par de nombreuses Penthésilées... (danse) faite d’équilibres et de déséquilibres, vont récompenses internationales. Parmi tous La chorégraphe revient pour la 4e fois de la danse contemporaine occidentale les enregistrements et collaborations avec un spectacle créé d’après la pièce au ballet classique en passant par le qu’elle a réalisés, le travail avec la éponyme de l’écrivain romantique Heinrich Von Kleist et s’inspirant de la figure de la butô et les arts martiaux. Ses créations, communauté Shaker, l’enregistrement guerrière amazone. 3 au 5 avril largement saluées à travers le monde, de Simple Gifts et The Golden Harvest sont des œuvres d’art totales associant sont certainement les plus marquants. • Paul-André Fortier Vertiges (danse) des interprètes solides, des univers Toujours basée à Boston où elle produit La rencontre de deux personnalités de visuels saisissants et, souvent, de la une série de concerts annuels, The la scène québécoise : Paul-André Fortier, musique en direct. La compagnie est Boston Camerata tourne régulièrement danseur et chorégraphe, et Malcolm en résidence permanente à l’Alexander aux États-Unis, en Europe et ailleurs. Goldstein, violoniste et improvisateur Theatre d’Helsinki, ancien domicile de Fréquemment invitée en résidence et de génie. 8 au 11 avril l’Opéra et du Ballet national de Finlande à donner des master classes, elle partage où Saarinen débuta sa carrière dans volontiers son expertise, tant technique Infos et réservations les années 1980. que d’interprétation. 01 53 65 30 00 / www.theatre-chaillot.fr Licence 1/1050/974-975-976-977.
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