Avec Thomas Lebrun, Julia Cima, Yasmeen Godder

Three different outlooks on a dance style of yesteryear, a dance of couples and bodies, a dance which was born in working class areas, conquered ballrooms then went back to popular music.

Events include: 3 classics (Strauss, Sibelius, Chostakovitch) revisited by 3 contemporary choreographers + free waltzes chosen by the artists.

Schedule Fri 7:30pm, Sat 5:45pm and Sun 2:45pm

Duration 1 hour 30 min

Price €5

Artists in residence Thomas Lebrun & Julia Cima: 22 September - 13 October 2008. Yasmeen Godder: 6-13 October 2008 www.cieillico.fr (Thomas Lebrun) www.yasmeengodder.com

Co-production & Residence: Les Subsistances / Lyon / France, Kunstfest Weimar Gmbh (first production Yasmeen Godder). With the support of the European Commission’s Culture Programme 2007-2013.

See synopsis (pdf in french / 56 kb)

Thomas Lebrun loves dance, humour and choreography. This extraordinary performer developed his talents as a choreographer in very diverse fields, from beautifully danced “chic-tat-gloss” to a more conceptual contemporary choreography, from frantic performances to more conventional choreographies. The freedom and the energy characteristic of his work meant we wanted to see him waltz.

Julia Cima has worked with Odile Duboc, Laure Bonicel and Benoît Lachambre. She worked for a long time in partnership with Boris Charmatz (in ’Con forts fleuve’, ’héâtre-élévision’ and Régi, created in 2006 at Les Subsistances with Raimund Hoghe). She is an accurate, sensitive performer, who in 2005 became a choreographer with Visitations, which won the Prize for Best Newcomer of the Professional Critics Association. Since then, she has pursued a career often focused on the written word, whether as a performer with Gildas Milin (Machine sans cible) or in her latest staged performance, Brut de lettres, with Denis Lavant, during the 2008 Avignon Festival. She decided to juxtapose her words to the waltz, and in this aim has called upon the services of writer Olivia Rosenthal.

Yasmeen Godder, from Israel, is one of the most promising choreographers of her generation. With her way of treating the bodies of her dancers, of developing movement, and of leaving her dancers’ bodies total freedom, she is a very singular choreographer indeed. She used to dance for the Bastheva Company before developing her own artistic voice. Many of her shows are multi award-winners. Her latest show, Singular Sensation, was performed for the first time during the 2008 Dance Festival of Montpellier. Her radical side and the intensity of her research were factors in our decision to invite her to try her hand at the waltz.