1 CHOREOGRAPHER: MAUD LE PLADEC

INTENTIONS
As with my last two creations, Professor and Poetry, the invitation to participate in Aire de Jeu contains a fundamental element of my work: music. But it also provides the opportunity 
to continue exploring the relationship between sound and gestures, which is what I’ve been working on for the past three years. For Aire de jeu, I chose two works by
New York composer David Lang: his famous Cheating, Lying, Stealing, created in 1980; and Stick Figure, which was written twenty years later. When I listened to Cheating, Lying, Stealing for the first time, I thought it could be a contemporary music “hit”, an ontological piece from the post-minimalist school. I wasn’t far from the truth: later I read that Steve Reich said about this piece that “David (Lang) couldn’t have written that without being inspired by my work, but when I heard Cheating, Lying, Stealing, I said to myself, darn, I should have done that!” [Devrez trouver l’anglais original, le cas echéant] Then I discovered this piece was on Garage Band 2 (a Guitar Hero video game)!
These intersections between high culture and popular culture, so-called high-brow music and popular music, are primarily what interest me. In fact, behind the rigorous writing and beauty of both Cheating, Lying, Stealing and Stick Figure, which seem to adhere to the strictures of contemporary music, there‘s a poetic that’s open to manifestations of so-called “low art”, a confident approach unencumbered by musical traditions.

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WORKS BY DAVID LANG
1. Cheating, lying, stealing (1993/95) 11'
Created 1 May 1995 (by Bang on a Can All-Stars at Lincoln Centre, New-York)

At Les Subsistances: bass clarinet, cello, percussion
Interpreted by: CNSMD of Lyon / Direction Frabrice Pierre

2. Stick figure (2001) 10'
Created 12 March 2001 (Teatro La Scala, Milan)

At Les Subsistances: clarinet, cello, percussion, piano,
snare drum
Interpreted by: CNSMD of Lyon / Direction Frabrice Pierre

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BACKGROUND
Maud Le Pladec trained in contemporary dance in 1999, joining Ex.er.ce at the Centre Chorégraphique National of Montpellier, directed by Mathilde Monnier. She then worked in Vienna (Austria) in the scope of Dance-web, then as a dancer in projects by Takiko Iwabuchi (Japan), Guillermo Bothello (Switzerland), Patricia Kuypers (Belgium), Bojana Mladenovic and Dusan Muric (Serbia). In 2001, Maud Le Pladec co-created the “Clubdes5” collective, authoring Fidelinka and Fidelinka-extension in collaboration with Mickael Phelippeau at Les Subsistances. In 2004, she began the Advance Training in Choreographic Culture program with Laurence Louppe and earned an advanced degree in Choreographic Culture. She then obtained a two-year master’s degree at the Dance Research Department at Paris 8 while at the same time dancing in pieces by Emmanuelle Vo Dinh, Loic Touzé and Latifa Laabissi, Georges Appaix, Mathilde Monnier, Herman Diephuis, and Boris Charmatz, and helping Charmatz at the Musée de la Danse with the Roman Photo project. In 2010, Le Pladec created Professor, which won the Révélation Chorégraphique (young choreographer) award from the Critics Syndicate and, on Jean-Marc Adolphe’s invitation, participated in SKITE. Currently dancing in two pieces by Boris Charmatz - La Levée des Conflits (2010) and Enfant (2011), which was created for the 2011 Festival d’Avignon – le Pladec created Poetry in November 2011 at the Mettre-en-scène Festival at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes. Next season, she will not only produce Professor and Poetry, she will also create a live version of Professor, in collaboration with the Ictus Ensemble for the GMEM Festival Les Musiques in May 2012, and prepare a new creation for 2013 centred on the Bang on a Can All-Stars.


PRODUCTION & CREDITS
Conception and choreography: Maud Le Pladec.
Music: Cheating, Lying, Stealing & Stick Figure de David Lang.
Interpreted and created in collaboration with: Julien Gallée Ferré. Lighting design:  Nicolas Marc.
Production:  Association Léda.
Co-production: Les Subsistances, Lyon.
With support from:  de l’Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson.

1 CHOREOGRAPHER: YUVAL PICK

INTENTION
“What I find interesting in the two musical pieces I’ve chosen is the method of composing by working on permutations and repetitions of the musical phrases. What inspires me in David Lang’s work is the need to deconstruct an existing form, to come back to its foundations to rebuild it and give it new meaning”.

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WORKS BY DAVID LANG
1. The anvil chorus (1991) 7'
Created 12 May 1991 (Bang on a Can Festival, New-York) for Steven Schick

At Les Subsistances: percussion

Interpreted by: Ryan Wilson, CNSMD of Lyon

2. + 3. The so-called laws of nature (2002) 11' + 9’
Commissioned by:
Created 19 October 2002 (Miller Theater, New-York)
for So Percussion Group

At Les Subsistances: percussion

Interpreted by: Tactus Ensemble

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BACKGROUND
Trained at the Bat-Dor Dance School in Tel-Aviv, Yuval Pick joined the Batsheva Danse Company (dir. Ohad Naharin) in 1991. He then began his international career, dancing with artists such as Tero Saarinen, Carolyn Carlson, and Russel Maliphant, and in 2000 joined the Ballet de l'Opéra national of Lyon (dir. Yorgos Loukos) for two seasons. In 2002 he founded The Guests Company and began working in close collaboration with composers such as Bertrand Larrieu (“Popular Music” 05, “Paon” 08, “Score” 10), Roméo Monteiro (“Look White Inside” 07, “17 Drops” 08) and Andréa Vigani (“Strand Behind” 06). As an independent choreographer, Yuval Pick has created pieces for the CCN Ballet of Lorraine, the Addmi-L'école de danse contemporaine in Montreal, the Junior Ballet of Geneva, La Palucca Schule in Dresden in the scope of the Tanz Studio Project, etc. In March 2010, he presented his most recent creation, Score, at Les Subsistances, and was recently named Director of the Centre Chorégraphique National in Rillieux-la-Pape.

PRODUCTION & CREDITS
Choreographer: Yuval Pick.
Music: The anvil chorus, The so-called laws of nature de David Lang.
Dancers: Lazare Huet, Zen Jefferson, Madoka Kobayashi, Anna Massoni, Antoine Roux-Briffaud.
Lighting:  Nicolas Boudier.
Costumes: Magali Rizzo.
Outside eye-editing: Bojana Bauer.
Production: Gabriel Guenot.
Sound operator: Raphael Guenot.