Boris Charmatz
20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle et plus encore
© Boris Charmatz © César Vayssié ©
© Nadia Beugré © Anna Fabrega ©
© Mackenzy © Juan Garcia Rosell ©
Concept, Boris Charmatz
With Djino Alolo Sabin, Florian Caron, Ashley Chen, Ruth Childs, Marco d’Agostin, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Olga Dukhovnaya, João Fiadeiro, Bryana Fritz, Peggy Grelat-Dupont, Marie Goudot, Mette Ingvartsen, Laurence Laffon, Johanna Elisa Lemke, I-Fang Lin, Filipe Lourenço, Fabrice Mazliah, Benjamin Pech, Katia Petrowick, Pol Pi, Marlène Saldana, Salia Sanou, Asha Thomas, Frank Willens
General manager, Mathieu Morel
Produced by terrain (Hauts-de-France) ; and Musée de la danse – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne (2012)
Coproduced by Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
terrain receives support from the Ministère de la Culture – Direction Générale de la Création Artistique et la Région Hauts-de-France.
As part of its implantation in Hauts-de-France, terrain is associated with Opéra de Lille, Le phénix, scène nationale (Valenciennes) and the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens.
Boris Charmatz is accompanied by Charleroi danse – Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Brussels from 2018 to 2021.
First performed on the 4th November 2012 at Les Champs Libres (Rennes)
With the support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
In partnership with France Culture
The Théâtre du Châtelet was, at the start of the 2Oth century, one of the pillars of avant-garde choreography, hosting the Ballets Russes, Afternoon of a Faun by Nijinsky, and Parade by Satie and Cocteau, among others. Within its walls steeped in history, 20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle et plus encore puts on display an untamed collection of gestures stemming from Boris Charmatz’s imaginary museum.
Under the direction of Boris Charmatz, the Musée de la danse has invented a profusion of formats shifting dance from its places of preference to undiscovered terrains. Ranging from showings in libraries, museums, open-air venues and the opera, the event that 20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle et plus encore constitutes is a nomadic, living exhibition: a concentrated dance history, brought into the present by the gestures of those embodying it. This plural, decentralised history mixes up all styles and digs down into the different strata of an art form which has been absent from the History of Art for a long time. Representing the diversity of dance in all its states, the performers spread out across the architecture enabling the free flow of a scattered, archipelago-like form of dance, with no stage, nor décor – rendering up all the different possibilities of connections and correspondences. In complete freedom, audience members navigate the corridors, hall, and wings, giving each of them the freedom to recompose a living archive of dance or, alternatively, to get lost, linger, moving on from one echo to the next… For the purposes of this new version at the Théâtre du Châtelet – this historic place of choreographic modernity – Boris Charmatz seeks to go beyond the limits of the 20th century in order to burst in upon our present, and to add a chapter to this history in the making : 20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle et plus encore…
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Running time : 3h