Dominique Brun

Les porteurs d'ombre

Noli, touché au vif

Residence

April 21 to 25, 2025

CCNR dance studio, Rillieux-la-Pape

Dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio

“The confrontation of these dances gives me the opportunity to retain their common denominator, the hands.”

Today, with Noli [Toucher au vif], I’m continuing the project inaugurated for the Ballet de Lorraine (whose Danses crues premiere took place at the Opéra de Nancy in 2022). I take the folk dances from Nuit de Saint-Jean and relate them to other Macedonian folk dances, taken from a documentary film by Rudolf Sremec (1948). I reinvent them by simplifying and stripping them down, but also by letting each one exist according to its own rhythm, without trying to smooth out their respective consistencies with a single tempo. Confronting these dances gives me the opportunitý to retain their common denominator, the hands. These anonymous dances are the raw material for Noli [Touché au vif].

 

From Nuit de Saint Jean , I also retain the concept of the “synthesis of the arts” implemented by the Swedish Ballet between 1920 and 1925. To this end, I bring together “scenes of writing” borrowed from literature, painting, photography and film, representing the feast of St. John and its farandoles and, by association, summer, fires, harvests, rounds, hands, desire, death… For example, we hear a poetic text by Marguerite Duras describing the negative hands found on the walls of Magdalenian caves. We see one of the first French folklorists, Arnold Van Gennep, lighting the bonfire that night, Jean-Baptiste, his patron saint… These “writing scenes” allow me to explore issues related to hands and touch, and to make them resonate with current events (pandemics, touch without consent…).

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Studio’s opening: Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 7:30pm
Free on reservation: adriana.falcone@ccnr.fr

Premieres: autumn 2025, La Roche sur Yon and/or Chambéry (in progress)

Casting (in progress)

Concept & choreography: Dominique Brun assisted by Marie Orts
Deciphering and interpreting dances (distribution in progress): Roméo Agid, Zoé Bleher, Florent Brun, Clarisse Chanel, Lou Cantor, Faustine Debrabant, Maxime Guillon- Roi-Sans-sac, Clément Lecigne, François Malbranque, Marie Orts, Annabelle Rosenow, Jean Soubirou
Music: David Christoffel
Lighting design: Éric Wurtz

Scenography: Odile Blanchard
Set design: Atelier Devineau
Costume design: Marie Labarelle

Video editing: Bérangère Goossens, Ivan Chaumeille

Production and distribution: Bruno Seroin-Joly
Production: Les porteurs d’ombre

Coproduciton: in progress…

Photo: Noli, touché au vif © Nom