The Louis Aragon Theater Stage under agreement of national interest Art and creation presents from July 11 to 20 at La Parenthèse in Avignon, its 2022 edition of La belle scène Saint-Denis.
• Monday July 11 to Friday July 15 • 10 a.m. •
Amala Diana • wo-man
Rather than a cover of her solo Man Rec, Amala Dianor imagines for the dancer Nangaline Gomis an extension of the choreography, a recreation on the body of a young woman. This solo resonates like an extension, an extension of oneself that will rely on the tone, vitality and fervor of a committed young performer.
Filipe Lourenço • CHEB (work in progress)
Filipe Lourenço sets out here the premises of his new creation, in the form of a response to the silent density of his previous piece Gouâl. Today, it is music that prefigures the movement, in a spatio-temporal bridge between the traditional music of the Maghreb and the popular music of today. Tending towards these dialogues and these games of influence, two dancers and two musicians seal their presence with a fine listening so that their gestures emerge.
Clementine Maubon & Bastien Lefevre • The weight of medals
The Weight of Medals questions the notions of success, failure, arms raised, effort, competition, heads bowed, compensation, price to pay, the reverse side of this medal… How much does the ideal medal weigh? Which gold, silver or bronze is the best for your health? Has anyone ever felt dizzy on the top step? And can we then ask for help to get down to the one we have just beaten?
• From Saturday 16 to Wednesday 20 July • 10 a.m. •
Bernard Montet • Vignette(s)
Vignette(s) is to inscribe the notion of the Vulnerable in the Transmit. Bernardo Montet transmits to an actor of Catalyse, the permanent troupe of the National Center for Adapted Creation, a fragment of his repertoire (Le Soleil du nom, solo 2019) which he will have to adapt to the singularity that are these disabled artists.
Anne Nguyen • Hip-Hop I Love You
The dancer and choreographer Yves Mwamba tells and dances his story, a story closely intertwined with that of hip-hop dance in Africa and that of his country, the Democratic Republic of Congo. With humor and lightness, Yves Mwamba makes us dance, sing, and transports us into a dreamlike universe populated by ancestors and demons.
Balkis Moutashar • dressed attitudes
From corsets that organically modified women’s bodies to oversized headdresses or shoes with fantastic platforms creating the illusion of immense bodies, clothing has drawn, over time, sometimes spectacular silhouettes, influencing the possibilities of movement and displacement of those who wore them, on their way of being in the world, immediately involving the body in the representation. Dressed Attitudes proposes to bring to light – even to reinvent – the memory that contemporary bodies carry of this history.
• From Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 July • 5 p.m. •
Mathilde Rance • Black Bird
Mathilde Rance is the female orchestra who awakens our millennial heritage: Bacchanals, troubadours, fairground beasts, carnival… Dragon poetess under the wings of Thoth, Egyptian god with the head of an ibis, she invents herself as a witch harpist, flamenco wolf and musical monster , sounding harp, Sufi percussion or slide trombone. The ceremony of a dragon poetess, between dances and sound incantations, cabaret and stripping.
Joachim Maudet • Welcome
Welcome is a continuation of the work around the relationship/dissociation of the body and the voice initiated in ‘sto:riz. Through the dissociation, accumulation or contradiction between what happens bodily and vocally, a strangeness, an irony or even an absurdity emerges from situations: emotion arises from these unclassifiable moments, from the discrepancy between what is said, signified and interpreter.
Olga Dukhovnaya • Swan Lake
With classical and contemporary training, Olga Dukhovnaya is a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue of Ukrainian origin. Swan Lake captures a classic monument in dance history: Swan Lake. From the corps de ballet to the solo, one of the challenges will be to discover the essence of Tchaikovsky’s ballet.
A program of the Louis Aragon Theater, subsidized stage of national interest Art and creation > dance, Tremblay-en-France. In collaboration with Danse Dense, support center for choreographic emergence. La belle Scène Saint-Denis benefits from the support of the City of Tremblay-en-France, the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis, the Ministry of Culture (DRAC Île-de-France). The Louis Aragon Theater, an approved stage of national interest – Art and creation > dance is supported by the City of Tremblay-en-France, the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis, the Île-de-France Region and the Ministry of Culture (DRAC Ile-de-France).
