Performance / Dance

25, 26, 27 & 28 March 2010

Anticodes

Performance for 1 spectator

This concert for one person in the form of a consultation, an appointment, a tête-à-tête, or an interview, encompasses 17th century erotic sonnets. These poems set out and address flows of desire, which are obscene and sublime, locked up, and prisoners of the formal codes of the sonnet. This face to face encounter allows for a disturbing, unsettling and sensual explosion of intimacy.

Background

François Chaignaud was born in 1983. He is a graduate of the Conservatoire National de Région de Rennes in ballet and contemporary dance and of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Chaignaud met Odile Duboc, Hervé Robbe, and Mark Tompkins as part of Junior Ballet. Following his work for Boris Charmatz’s Bocal project, he performed for Tiago Guedes, Emmanuelle Huynh, Gilles Jobin, Aydin Teker, Mille Plateaux Associés, Alice Chauchat and Alain Buffard. He was awarded the prize for Best Performance by the ADAMI in 2004. Since then, he has presented several performances and concerts: Pompè - procession urbaine, He’s One that Goes to Sea for Nothing But to Make Him Sick, La Culture des Individu.e.s, The Clodd and the Pebble, Aussi bien que ton coeur, ouvre-moi les genoux. He created Duchesses in August 2009, in partnership with Marie-Caroline Hominal. He trained in the art of François Malkovsky’s ‘free dance’ and participated in cabaret shows in the US. He also published in 2009 L’Affaire Berger-Levrault – le féminisme à l’épreuve (1897-1905) (publisher: PUR). As co-founders of the dance company VloVaJoV Pru, Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud have been working together since 2005, on various shows including Miranda remix, Pâquerette (first produced during the Antipodes ’08) and Sylphides (first produced during the Antipodes ’09, prize for Best Newcomer 2009 from the Syndicat de la critique), as well as a recreation project on François Malkovsky’s free dance.

Cast and Crew

Creator/Consultant: François Chaignaud

Produced by VLOVAJOV PRU.

Coproduced by Le Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest.

With the help of ONDA.

Price

€5

Duration

10’