Cannes Dance Festival, an international and festive programme to celebrate its 20th edition. From 20th to 29th November 2015 The City of Cannes has entrusted Brigitte Lefèvre with the artistic direction of the Dance Festival: a festive menu for the celebration of the 20th edition. With its fourteen shows, six of which are French creations or premieres, the Festival presents us with a joyous and rich edition, open on the world and crossing all aesthetics of dance. The Cannes Dance Festival is fully confident in its choices, and has brought together, in this one and same edition, great and grand ballets but also bold contemporary creations, all this on a fully international scale. For this edition, Brigitte Lefèvre lays out her own vision of dance in all its variety and diversity. The 20th edition will open with a splash, with the exceptional visit – in the framework of the France-Korea Year - of the National Dance Company of Korea, presenting Vortex by the Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen. This sensitive, delicate and poetic piece is emblematic of the trajectories and interactions that always have been part of the DNA of dance with its multiple sources of inspiration from the four corners of the earth. So, to be part of this culture trip, the Festival has, among its starring guests, dancers ranging from Brazil to the far-flung Mediterranean shores, from Sweden to Spain, from Belgium to America en passant by France. Real or imaginary crossings, the choreographers themselves, on the crest of the wave of discovery, are certainly not new to navigating different countries, different identities. Thus the Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker, plunges the spectator delightfully into the heart of Russian literature with Tatvana (Tatiana), an original, sensitive and inspired interpretation of Pushkin’s masterpiece Eugène Onéguine (Eugene Oneguin). The new directors of the CCN (National Choreographic Centre) of Franche-Comté in Belfort, Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux have joined the Swedish singer and composer Peter von Poehl, star of Swedish post-rock, with his amazing Waves. José Martinez, ex-dancer Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet and director of the Compagnie Nationale de Danse d’Espagne (National Dance Company of Spain) plays the ‘local colour’ card with his presentation of a flamboyant Carmen, whilst the Lyons Opera Ballet, directed by Yorgos Loukos, transports us into the universe of the brilliant choreographer Jiří Kylián with three pieces in a programme that is both Baroque and nostalgic. As for the American choreographer Daniel Linehan who studied in Brussels under Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker but now lives in France, he invents, with his dbddbb, a choreographic reflection on the rhythm of walking and marching… but perturbed by a Dadaist spirit! And the Belgian choreographer Michèle Noiret presents a new score on the music of the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, Palimpseste. In this chapter of phantasmatic countries, Hervé Koubi, who, after claiming loud and clear his Algerian origins, looks into those strange Peoples of the Sea, those tribes of uncertain origin in Les Nuits barbares ou Les premiers matins du monde (Barbarian Nights or The First Mornings of the World). The new director of the CCN of Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Christian Rizzo, works motifs taken from the history of popular and anonymous dance, that is to say dancing in twos, by joining up with the Taiwan artist Juan- hau Chiang, creator of breath-taking synthetic images. Catherine Diverrès, galvanised from her beginnings by her love of Japan, has transformed her dancers into living calligraphies. As for Kader Belarbi, ex-dancer Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, now director of the Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse, he imagines a new dialogue altogether between La Bête et la Belle (The Beast and Beauty) peopled with creatures of fantasy. Finally, Josette Baïz, offers a different version of her show, including a Damien Jalet creation, with a host of choreographers from all horizons, Guests, and her troupe of astoundingly dynamic young dancers. 1 But the journey wouldn’t be complete, if it didn’t include France, the country that devised the skilful refinements of dance. And who but the Dancing School of the Opéra de Paris, is more witness to the eternal vivacity of that famous “French School”? Elisabeth Platel brings a very symbolic programme that combines Jacques Garnier’s Aunis and Léo Staats’ Soir de Fête but will also show us, through her Master-classes of 1st division, the actual teaching methods - the core - of the Ecole de Danse. Around the Festival This anniversary is also the opportunity for encouraging meetings, debates, discussions, master-classes and practical work-shops that have been part of the DNA of this Dance Festival of Cannes since its beginnings. 2 thematic colloquiums “TraditionS in MouvementS”, organised by the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, department of Arts - Dance Section and Centre of Research CTEL / National Centre of Dance / Cannes Dance Festival. Tradition subtly links present-day gestures and those of the past, revealing a vibrant and moving dynamics, part of choreographic creations as in cultural and social practice too. The researchers are in Cannes to discuss this. Guest artists; Catherine Diverrès, Tero Saarinen and Christian Rizzo… “Dance in Company” will broach, in an interdisciplinary manner, all the thematic interactions that constitute the status quo of choreographic art today. The Studiotrade platform, orchestrated by the Compagnie Humaine, will present choreographers and pieces reflecting the diversity of an independent European dance scene: Legitimate Bodies Dance Company (Ireland) / Arno Schuitemaker (Netherlands) / K&C Kekäläinen & Company (Finland) The Festival will begin its 2015 edition by a big celebration: its “Bal Flash”: Let’s celebrate the 20th edition of the Cannes Dance Festival! Sunday 22nd November at 2 pm – On the forecourt La Terrasse du Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. Passers-by and enthusiasts are invited to morph into “dancers of a day” to re-enact the History of the Cannes Dance Festival by means of dance sequences borrowed from pieces that the Festival has presented since 1985. From Maguy Marin to Philippe Decouflé including Mourad Merzouki, Ohad Naharin, Mats Ek or again Angelin Preliocal. Hervé Koubi will create an original choreography available on the website of the Dance Festival so that everybody can practise! Information: Direction de l’Evènementiel (Events Management): 04 92 99 33 83 www.festivaldedanse-cannes.com www.palaisdesfestivals.com www.cannes-destination.fr Ticket Office : Palais des Festivals et des Congrès Tel : 04 92 98 62 77 Follow us on the social networks : Twitter Facebook Cannes is yours Festival de Danse de Cannes Palais des Festivals Cannes is yours Instagram Palais des Festivals Cannes is yours PRESS CONTACTS Cannes - Palais des Festivals et des Congrès : Paris - Agence Opus 64 : Elisabeth Lara Valérie Samuel T : 04 92 99 84 46 T : 01 40 26 77 94 [email protected] [email protected] Blandine Dugenetay Patricia Gangloff T : 04 92 99 84 45 T : 01 40 26 77 94 [email protected] [email protected] 2 P R O G R A M M E D A N C E F E S T I V A L from 20th to 29th November Friday 20th November >20h30 - Palais des Festivals / Grand Auditorium COMPAGNIE NATIONALE DE DANSE DE COREE « VORTEX » (French premiere) – Choreography : Tero Saarinen In the framework of the France-Korea Year Saturday 21st November >18h – Théâtre La Licorne Shared Evening MICHELE NOIRET « Palimpseste » CATHERINE DIVERRES - « Dentro » (French premiere - 2015 creation - coproduction) >20h30 - Palais des Festivals / Théâtre Debussy CCN FRANCHE-COMTE à BELFORT « Waves » - Choreography : Héla Fattoumi / Eric Lamoureux (2014 creation) Sunday 22nd November > 14h – Parvis Palais des Festivals th BAL FLASH : Let’s celebrate the 20 edition of the Dance Festival! >15h - Palais des Festivals / Grand Auditorium ECOLE DE DANSE L’OPERA DE PARIS Demonstrations of 2 classes of 1st division / « Aunis » (Jacques Garnier, choreograrphy - Maurice Pacher, music / « Soir de fête » (Léo Delibes, music / Léo Staats, choreography) >18h - Théâtre Croisette Hôtel JW Marriott CHRISTIAN RIZZO - “ad noctum” (2015 creation - coproduction) Thursday 26th November >20h30 - Palais des Festivals / Grand Auditorium BALLET DU CAPITOLE « La Bête et la Belle » - Choreography : Kader Belarbi (2005 creation for the Grands Ballets Canadiens rerun in October 2013 in Toulouse) Friday 27th November >18h - Théâtre Croisette Hôtel JW Marriott GROUPE GRENADE - JOSETTE BAIZ « Guests II» (French premiere – 2015 creation - coproduction) Duo « Déserts d’Amour » - Dominique Bagouet (extract) / « Homage to Trisha Brown » - re-creation Josette Baïz / « Entity » - Wayne McGregor | solo Random Dance’s entity (extract) / « L'évocation » - Damien Jalet (extract 2015 creation) / « Brilliant Corners » - Emanuel Gat (extract) / « Uprising » - Hofesh Shechter (extract) >20h30 - Palais des Festivals / Théâtre Debussy CIA DEBORAH COLKER « Tatyana » (French premiere) Saturday 28th November > 15h – Salle Les Arlucs PLATEFORME STUDIOTRADE (European network of choreographers, producers and dance organisations) CARTE BLANCHE CIE HUMAINE - Eric OBERDORFF >18h – Théâtre La Licorne CO. HIATUS - DANIEL LINEHAN - « dbddbb » (2015 creation - coproduction) >20h30 - Palais des Festivals / Grand Auditorium BALLET DE L’OPERA DE LYON Jiří Kylián: « Bella Figura » « Heart's Labyrinth » « 27'52" » Sunday 29th November >15h - Théâtre