Choreographer s : Charmatz, Boris France. With this choreographic project, Boris Charmatz proposes a specific format and challenges the viewing conventions governing the art of choreography: the performance hall, the relationship between the stage and the performers, the being-together.
From the stage to the TV screen, from being-together to the individual, from the live performance to the image, this work calls on the notion of installation as used in contemporary art and visual arts. The film is neither linear nor narrative, but it contains different forms of theatricality, absurd dances, mysterious spaces which are woven together, without ever creating a single meaning. Filmed at La Chaufferie de Saint-Denis, a former power plant, this film loop displays bodies constrained by space, by rhythm and facial expressions, forms of choreographic contortion which generate a certain feeling of estrangement.
It is important to note that the conditions in which the object is seen are essential to appreciating the work.
The chosen extract can only offer you an archival approach to the work. Dancer, choreographer, and director of Terrain, Boris Charmatz subjects dance to formal constraints which redraw the field of possibilities. The stage is a notepad where to draft concentrated, organic concepts in order to observe the chemical reactions, intensities, and tensions engendered by their encounter. As an associate artist of the edition of the Avignon Theatre Festival, Boris Charmatz created enfant.
That same year, Boris Charmatz opened the dance season at the National Opera in Paris with 20 Dancers for the XX Century , and invited 20 dancers from the Ballet to perform twentieth-century solo parts in public spaces at the Palais Garnier. In May he premieres Fous de danse , an invitation to live dance in all its forms from noon until midnight.
