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While exploring Kraftwerk’s “black box,” I found a number of intriguing elements that I wanted to incorporate into my research.

On this project I wanted to work with a piece of pre-existing music, with a pop dimension, which would awaken our collective memories. I chose to explore the sound and the universe of the German group Kraftwerk, in particular the period from 1974 to 1981, during which they released Autobahn, Radioactivität, Trans Europa Express and Computerwelt. These albums had a mostly analog sound and repetitive rhythms that remind me of heartbeats, breathing, walking, a trance state, a musical gesture on a human scale. 

 

I saw this part of their journey as the beginning of a new European romanticism, which offers a different perspective of Man’s relationship to his environment. The nineteenth-century ideal of Man and nature was replaced by a new affirmation positing the survival of Man in an urbanized, mechanized environment.  

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Danser Canal Historique

Sophie Lesort
december 2015

“Avec Are friends electric? le directeur du CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape se dirige avec talent vers une autre forme de danse et signe une œuvre puissante et insolite sur l’élasticité de l’espace et du corps et surtout sur le vivre ensemble.” 

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Florence Roux
décembre 2015

“Mission accomplie : la musique de Kraftwerk prend corps grâce à ces experts de l’électricité des muscles. Le cœur bat avec eux. Bravo.”

Around the creation

Are friends electric? teaser

Are friends electric?, Yuval Pick © Sébastien Erôme
Are friends electric?, Yuval Pick © Sébastien Erôme
Are friends electric?, Yuval Pick © Sébastien Erôme

Casting

Choreography: Yuval Pick
Choreographic assistant: Sharon Eskenazi
Music:
Kraftwerk, Franz Schubert, Olivier Renouf
Dancers: Julie Charbonnier, Madoka Kobayashi, Thibault Desaules, Jérémy Martinez, Adrien Martins, Emanuele Rosa

Lights: Nicolas Boudier
Sound : Olivier Renouf
Scenographic advice: Bénédicte Jolys
Costumes: Frederick Denis
Costumes’ adjustments: Paul Andriamanana 

Thanks to Michel Raskine, Emmanuel Robin

Production : CCNR / Yuval Pick

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2018

May 5 2018
Le carreau, Scène Nationale de Forbach (Allemagne)
Inside Tranzfestival Saar in Saarbrücken
March 21 2018
La Manufacture, CDCN Bordeaux Aquitaine

2017

November 22 2017
Centre Culturel de Bergerac
Inside Les Éclats Chorégraphiques festival
March 22 2017
Centres culturels Municipaux de Limoges
January 24 + 25 2017
Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape

 

January 19 2017
Opéra de Dijon
Inside Art Danse du CDC Dijon-Bourgogne festival

2016

October 18 2016
Les Treize Arches, Scène Conventionnée de Brive
October 13 2016
Plovdiv (Bulgarie)
One Dance Week festival
September 20 + 21 2016
Les Subsistances, Lyon
Inside the Biennale de la Danse de Lyon

 

March 30 + 31 2016
Le 104, Paris
Inside Séquence Danse
March 20 2016
Belgrade (Serbia)
Belgrade Dance Festival
January 13 2016
Aurillac Theater

2015

December 8 + 9 2015
Comédie de Saint-Étienne