Lucinda Childs x 100
© Lucinda Childs x100 © Ferrante Ferranti ©
© Lucinda Childs x100 © Ferrante Ferranti ©
© Lucinda Childs x100 © Ferrante Ferranti ©
Choreographer, Lucinda Childs
Assistant choreographer, Ty Boomershine
With one hundred student dancers from the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
Music, Sunrise on the Planetary Dream Collector by Terry Riley; Concerto for Harpsichord and String Orchestra, Op. 40 by Henryk Górecki
String quartet, students from the department of classical and contemporary instrumental disciplines
Conservatoire String Orchestra
Conductor, Julien Leroy
Production Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris Coproduction La Villette (Paris) ; Festival d'Automne à Paris
Co-production La Villette ; Festival d'Automne à Paris
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Caisse des Dépôts Île-de-France and King's Fountain
With the support of
A strong relationship has been built up between the Conservatoire de Paris and American dance, a new chapter in which will be written in this celebration of the work of Lucinda Childs, a major figure in post modern dance. The New York-based choreographer will be passing on to a hundred students from the CNSMDP several of her pieces, each with its with own multiple energies.
In 2018, Cédric Andrieux took up his post as Director of Choreographic Studies at the Paris-based Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse. A performer in Merce Cunningham’s company for over a decade, in 2019 he instigated a choreographic event for the centenary of this contemporary ballet pioneer involving one hundred students from the Conservatoire. After paying homage to Trisha Brown in 2021, he furthers the cycle dedicated to major American dance figures with that of Lucinda Childs, whose turn it will now be to work in conjunction with one hundred students from the CNSMDP. The choreography set to the Concerto for harpsichord and string orchestra op. 40 by Henryk Górecki, created in 1993, with all its contrasts, wrath and rebel energies, will encounter a selection of short pieces by Lucinda Childs from the 1970’s. In addition, there will also be a piece from 1989 that the American choreographer had specially devised for the CNSMDP students, set to the music of Terry Riley, in which this precursor of so-called "minimalist" music links structural sensibility with spiritual resources.
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