Film Screening

A film trail is available in conjunction with the Festival programme, providing an opportunity to learn more about major figures in dance. Admission free, subject to availability. In partnership with the Centre national de la Danse and the Cineum.  

Information Julie Parisse 04 92 99 33 78 – parisse@palaisdesfestivals.com

SATURDAY DECEMBER 2ND

10.30 am | Palais des Festivals (Cannes)

DANCE FILMS ON THE THEME OF SUSPENSION AND GRAVITY 

2023, 54 MIN

A montage of choreographic and performance extracts proposed by the Centre national de la danse with Loïe Fuller, Trisha Brown Early Works, Laura De Nercy and Bruno Dizien, Kitsou Dubois, Jann Gallois, Mourad Merzouki, Régine Chopinot, Philippe Decoufé, Iztok Kovac, Joëlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia… 

Rising on pointe, jumping, leaping… the dancer tries to go ever further, ever higher, to free himself from gravitational pull, to seek out new spaces to explore between heaven and earth. He questions gravity through his body and finds other ways of moving. This becomes a source of inventiveness and technical experimentation that leads the creation towards new gestures. 

The use of devices, whether scenic (mirrors, sets, etc.) or accessorised (rope, harness, etc.), from the simplest to the most elaborate, transforms our usual reference points of horizontality and verticality, our relationship with the ground and the void, and blurs our understanding of space, the body and its possibilities. The relationship between gravity and suspension changes until it disappears. 

Playful, poetic, strange, even unreal worlds are born before our eyes. 

. “Le Lys” and “Valse de Godard”, extracts from the film “La Féerie des Ballets fantastiques de Loïe Fuller”, (1934, 4 min), directed by George R. Busby, choreography by Loïe Fuller, performed by the Compagnie Loïe Fuller. 

. Trisha Brown Early Works: 6 minutes  

– Spiral, choreography from 1974, recorded in NB in 1975 at the American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, with Trisha Brown, Elisabeth Garren, Judith Ragir. 

– Floor of the Forest, choreography from 1970, recorded in 1975 at the American Dance Festival, doc. edited by Seoungho Cho and Stephen Vitiello, with Trisha Brown and Elizabeth Garren. 

– Planes, choreography from 19768, project direction by Shelley Senter, original music by Simone Forti, video design by Jud Yalkut, produced by the CND in 2012, with 3 dancers from the CNSMDP: Kévin Coquelard, Valériane Michelini, Sabine Rivière. 

. “Le Creux poplité”, 1987, 4 minutes, choreography and performance by Laura De Nercy and Bruno Dizien. 

. Kitsou Dubois’ work on weightlessness = 5 minutes   

– FR3 report (interview with Kitsou Dubois + images) 

– Images of weightlessness in antigravity flight and in water  

– The space of a moment: the journey of the chair. 

. ” Ineffable”, 2021, 5 minutes, choreography and performance by Jann Gallois, 5 minutes 

. “Vertikal”, 2018, 5 minutes, artistic direction / Concept, choreography by Mourad Merzouki, choreographic assistance: Marjorie Hannoteaux, direction by Fabien Plasson (Maison de la danse de Lyon), set design by Benjamin Lebreton, original music by Armand Amar, lighting by Yoann Tivoli, costumes by Pascale Robin, sets by Fabrice Guillot / Cie Retouramont 

. “ANA”, 1991, 5 minutes, choreography by Régine Chopinot, costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier (produced by Les Ateliers du Costume), original music by Cyril de Turckheim (choir Maîtrise de garçons du Conservatoire de Tours), lighting by Gérard Boucher, sets by Danka Semenowicz, performance by John Bateman, Joanna Blake, Jeannette-Carol Brooks, Boris Charmatz, Philippe Combes, Bertrand Davy, Jacqueline Fischer, Georgette Louison Kala-Lobe, Myriam Lebreton, Anne-Karine Lescop, Samuel Letellier, Maria-Jesus Lorrio, Vojta Pavlicek, Marianne Rachmul, Monet Robier, Manuel Rodriguez, Catherine Savy, Lin-Guang Song, Eric Ughetto. 

. “Petites pièces montées”, 1993, 3 minutes, choreography by Philippe Decouflé, directed by Marian Lacombe, edited by Anne Gilles, performed by Compagnie DCA (Chloé Ban, Christine Bombal, Magali Caillet, Muriel Corbel, Coralie Corredor, Herman Diephuis, Eric Houzelot, Sam Le Borgne, Eric Martin, Irma Omerzo, Christophe Salengro). Production: Métropole Production  

. “Dom Svobode”, 2000, 7 minutes, choreography by Iztok Kovac, music and direction by Thierry De Mey, performed by Compagnie En-Knap. 

. “La chambre”, 1988, 10 minutes, choreography and direction by Joëlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia, text “La vie tranquille” by Marguerite Duras, live music by Denis Levaillan, performed by Nathalie Million, Catherine Berbessou, Joëlle Bouvier, Bernadette Doneux, Florence Issembourg, Patricia Marie, Florence Perrin, Claire RIchard, Joëlle Rollet.