Thursday 27, Friday 28 & Saturday 29 September 2007 at 10pm
The Breast piece (Praticable) is one of the chapters of the Praticable project, built around various research stages, productions, and communication between the choreographers/performers Alice Chauchat, Frédéric de Carlo, Frédéric Gies, Isabelle Schad and Odile Seitz. All five young choreographers and dancers attempt to invent a new way to communicate and experience dancing. They are theory freaks however they never forget to place energetic and moving bodies at the heart of their performance.
Anatomically speaking, breasts are glands, but they also are the true symbols of femininity. Motherly or erotic, virginal or pornographic, they are almost always the attributes of a certain mythology of the female form. The dancing here uses the imagination to create the image of a “real” body, by creating ambiguous relations between the ideas of the body, genre and reality. Alice Chauchat and Frédéric Gies examine with this show the relations between a “natural” body and its cultural representations. +++ guest: Frédéric Gies with Dance
Alice Chauchat graduated from the CNSMD in Lyon. She now works as a choreographer, dancer and artistic assistant. She has worked with Tom Plischke, Martin Nachbar, Alix Eynaudi, Anne Juren, Xavier Le Roy and Alexandre Roccoli.
Frédéric Gies is a choreographer and performer. He has worked with Daniel Larrieu, Bernard Glandier, Olivia Grandville, and Christophe Haleb. Since 1998, he has been involved in several projects/performances with Frédéric De Carlo, Isabelle Schad, Odile Seitz and Alice Chauchat.
Distribution & Thanks
Created and choreographed by Alice Chauchat & Frédéric Gies. Dance: Alice Chauchat. Lighting by Rut Waldeyer. Music by Ernest Chausson, Janis Joplin. Production Manager: Pauline Roussille / Aire. Produced by Alice Chauchat / Aire & Frédéric Gies. With the help of: Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d‘Île-de-France – Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Our thanks go to Tanzfabrik Berlin & TanzWerkstatt Berlin. Praticable has received the support of Fabrik Potsdam as part of Tanzplan Potsdam: Artists-in-Residence.
Dates
Thursday 27, Friday 28 & Saturday 29 September 2007 at 10pm