Project Description

This Dancerie: The Paris Project
A collaboration project by Tony Whitfield, Sebastiano d'Ayala Valva, Klaus Fruchtnis, Thierry Micouin, Nils Nusens, Patricio Sarmiento and Andrew Alden


This Dancerie is a multi-event, multi-site, multi-media work that explores the ways in which gay men have created public expressions of desire despite mainstream prohibitions of manifestations of those aspects of their lives in the context of Paris as a complex historical cultural arena for this exploration.

The pretext of This Dancerie is urbanization as a prerequisite for homosexual subculture and the understanding that despite the absence of “gay ghettos, ” gay men developed and carried on forbidden lives in public it cities around the world. This Dancerie focuses on Paris as a cross-road of queer life in which, although, technically, homosexuality was legal since 1791, decency was legislated and under surveillance.

This Dancerie will create a series of foci on Paris as a site of refuge for queer men and the environments they historically frequented. Particular attention will be placed on developing narratives that include a range of differing intersections of class, race, creeds, ethnicities and gender the collaborators will develop a movement based-work for male groupings drawing upon culturally specific traditions. The role immigration plays in these narratives will also be underscored.

This Dancerie is a multi-event, multimedia collaborative work under the artistic direction of Tony Whitfield. This project will be a collaboration between Whitfield, as Executive Producer and Artistic Director, Thierry Micouin as Director of Choreography, media artist Klaus Fruchtnis as Technical Director, fashion designer Patricio Sarmiento, filmmaker Sebastiano d’Ayala Valva and composer/musician Nils Nussen, all from France and composer/ musician Andrew Alden, and filmmakers Joe Lumbroso and Dyana Winkler, from the United States. Eight to ten sites across the City where same sex desire has created a shifting landscape of criminalized activity, class-complicated entanglements, immigrant freedom, forbidden commerce, transgressive beauty and encoded seduction will be the context for short filmed dance/movement based narratives since 1870. Each three to five minute films will begin with a cruising ritual and be filmed in those spaces. For several evenings the films will be presented in situ as projected images activated by passersby movement. Ideally these installations would be debuted as part of Paris’ La Nuit Blanche in 2017.

These films would then be brought together into a single space to produce an additional evening long performance or “dance party” that would be digitally randomized and improvisationally scored for classical ensemble and world pop musicians. Ideally the space would be situated in a cultural center and include a live performance component that involved local gay residents. Various forms of social media will be employed to augment and reveal aspects of the project's narrative content during the culminating dance party and its scatter site installations.

Several aspects of this project should move it beyond the context of performance based works that explore cultural identity and history. They include: the site specific nature of the public installation that will seek to revive unknown queer histories in ways that immerse the audience in the projected work; the creation of apps that will allow the participant to access deeper know of the history behind the narrative they have stumbled into as well as information about the artwork itself and other components of the work at other sites across Paris as well as multifaceted entries into the "dance party."

It is anticipated that audiences for This Dancerie will include: post modern dance, experimental music, expanded cinema, public art and contemporary performing arts audiences. In addition general public members who are attending events associated with Paris' La Nuit Blanche 2017 and local commmunities adjacent to the various sites in which This Danceries' short constituent works will be situated.This project will seek to engage LGBTQI populations including scholars, artists, performers and youth. Social media, print and electronic media associated with La Nuit Blanche and the venue that will host the culminating event will be drawn upon in addition to apps established specifically for This Dancerie.

The primary goal is to reveal the queer past and present of Paris as an urban geography that has been multifaceted, ethnically, economically, and culturally diverse while also revealing those aspects of queer life that defy normalization, concealment behind closed doors challenge notions of "decency" are tied to desire and find expression despite histories of policing and surveillance. In addition this work will seek to engage collaborative, improvisational and interactive structures and technologies to create social points of entry and discussion among various queer communities across Paris and beyond as a means of expanding current discussions about same sex desire.


Thursday, May 15, 2014

Olivier Dubois's Tragedie in which Thierry Micouin has performed since 2012





  • COMPANY OLIVIER DUBOIS

    TRAGEDY

    OLIVIER DUBOIS
    1.2.3 MAY 2014

  • COMPANY OLIVIER DUBOIS

    TRAGEDY

    OLIVIER DUBOIS
    1.2.3 MAY 2014

  • COMPANY OLIVIER DUBOIS

    TRAGEDY

    OLIVIER DUBOIS
    1.2.3 MAY 2014

  • COMPANY OLIVIER DUBOIS

    TRAGEDY

    OLIVIER DUBOIS
    1.2.3 MAY 2014

  • COMPANY OLIVIER DUBOIS

    TRAGEDY

    OLIVIER DUBOIS
    1.2.3 MAY 2014



  • France

  • COMPANY OLIVIER DUBOIS

    Tragedy

    Olivier Dubois
20 PMDURATION - 1 HOUR 30ROOM - THEATRE MAISONNEUVE
May 1, 2014
May 2, 2014
May 3, 2014
Warning: strong sound, strobes
Shaker contemporary French scene, Olivier Dubois submits naked body 18 dancers relentless repetition of a mechanical brake slowly corrodes their docility and grows to an explosive release. A powerful tragedy that grips us in the gut and leads us into a collective catharsis.

DANCE DANCE 13-14: OLIVIER DUBOIS - TRAGEDY

To experience a blinding humanity, dazzling ... deafening. Not distinguish the body qu'affleurent these moving masses, archaic impulses. With Tragedy , Olivier Dubois propels us into a "world feel" more than a dance piece. The mere fact of being a man is not humanity, that is the tragedy of our existence. For it is only between the body of the terrestrial pressures arising from each and not by our conscious and voluntary commitments that will arise this humanity.
Overexposed in their nakedness, to better embody the obvious anatomical variation, nine women and nine men offer a state of original body, solicitation rid mankind of their historical conditions, sociological, psychological ... and leave transcend ultimately a chorus as a song / glorious body.
Walking, being straightened, face it, first by incessant back and forth - adventures a move - then pounding the ground, and thus not repeat the fundamental gesture of their own.
As with Revolution , Olivier Dubois then sign a manifest piece, obsessive, even hypnotic, in a move that bag and surf, these women and men melt, disappear; rubbing their commitments creates the crash. A gap opens and suggests, in this tumult Earth, precious transcendence of a human community.
"By singing and dancing, man expresses his belonging to a higher community: he has forgotten how to walk and talk and dance, it is about to fly into the air. His actions say his spell. "  The Birth of Tragedy , Nietzsche
"Oliver Wood sign with Tragedy 's Rite of Spring , or the Bolero . " ( Libération , Paris, France) 
"The basic energy that is a good walk becomes a cry of pure vitality. " ( Le Monde , Paris, France) 

AS A BONUS, THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF DANCE: READY TO KISS


Photo © Boris Munger
Duo created the same year as Tragedy at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Ready to kiss a long kiss is choreographed to The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, arranged by the composer François Caffenne also his collaborator Tragedy . Presented once in collaboration with DHC / ART and IHP Centre, it will be interpreted by Olivier Dubois and Mohamed Kouadri.
Ready to fuck is presented in Montreal on April 29 at 20 am at PHI Centre . 


CHOREOGRAPHER


CREDITS

Creation and choreography Olivier Dubois. Assistant to the creation Cyril Accorsi. Music François Caffenne. Creating lightPatrick Riou. Scenography Olivier Dubois. General AuthorityFrançois Michaudel. pet Director Beatrice Horn. Agent North American tour propic A, Line Rousseau. Interpreters Marie Caradec-Laure Marianne Descamps, Virginia Garcia, Karine Girard, Carole Gomes-Busnel, Inés Hernández, Isabelle Kürzi, Loren Palmer Sandra Savin, Benjamin Bertrand, Arnaud Boursain, Jorge Moré Calderon, Sylvain Decloitre, Sébastien Ledig, Filipe Lourenço, Thierry Micouin Rafael Pardillo Sebastien Perrault.production COD. Coproduction Festival d'Avignon, L'Apostrophe national scene Cergy-Pontoise, Val d'Oise, La Rose des vents National Scene Lille Metropole in Villeneuve d'Ascq, CENTQUATRE, Theatre - National Scene Macon, the Monaco Dance Forum / Ballets de Monte Carlo, Ballet Malandain / Biarritz - National Choreographic Centre of Aquitaine and Pyrénées Atlantiques.
Ministry of Culture, under the conventionnement, the Ile-de-France, the Conseil Général du Val d'Oise, SPEDIDAM and the urban community - supported by the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs of Ile de France company Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines -. Prism The company is in residence at The apostrophe national scene Cergy-Pontoise, Val d'Oise. Olivier Dubois is associate artist at CENTQUATRE - Paris.
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