This documentary chronicles a unique creative process: the great choreographer gives us unprecedented access to her work, her current projects and her personal archives. The carefully selected archival images covering the last forty years reveal the influence that her life and her deep connections with the unconscious had on the complex and imaginative pieces she created. Featuring exclusive interviews, intimate rehearsal sequences and dazzling dance sequences, the film is the first critical perspective on the brilliant career of a multi-faceted woman.

The feature documentary Louise Lecavalier, on her horse of fire, offers a cinematographic dive into the heart of the work and life of the Canadian dancer and choreographer Louise Lecavalier. Spectacular dances, original music and exclusive interviews make up an inspiring and moving film that draws the intimate portrait of a passionate artist who is always driven by the quest for the perfect movement.

It’s a first for 30 hip-hop, krump, break, voguing dancers… A premiere for the director Clément Cogitore and the choreographer Bintou Dembélé. And a premiere for the Paris Opera. Through a dialogue between urban dance and lyrical singing, they reinvent together Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece, Les Indes Galantes. From rehearsals to public performances, it is a human adventure and an encounter with the political stakes that we follow: can a new generation of artists today take the Bastille?

“As she prepares to play the role of Jocaste, Martha Graham introduces us to her company, talking about the life, art and technique of the dancer.

A Dancer’s World is a beautiful film because it shows dance where you don’t expect it. The editing alternates the dressing room, where Martha Graham is shown putting on makeup before entering the stage to interpret Night Journey while meditating on the formation of the dancer, and the company’s dance sequences.

Martha Graham’s styling, dressing, evokes the world of dance: how one becomes a character, the need for discipline in the studio, the time it takes – years of exercise – to access simplicity, spontaneity, at the moment of the theatrical act.”

Bernard Rémy

Star choreographer Carolyn Carlson, who revolutionised contemporary dance at the Opéra de Paris in the 1970s, revisits her creation Synchronicity, inspired by Carl Jung in 2012. Based on filmed sequences, the six performers dive into short stories describing unpredictable and decisive moments in life. As dance explores the magic of coincidences, wonder ensues!

L’Offrande musicale, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1747 is considered the masterpiece of an era. This musical work serves as the common thread of this piece, in which Béatrice Massin and her baroque dance meet the ‘more classical’ universe of Bruno Bouché, under the chiseled gaze of Mié Coquempot, who launched this unifying project just before his death.

Continuing on from Vessel , which created another world from the anatomy of the dancers, Planet [wanderer], like the second part of a diptych resulting from the collaboration of Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa, engages itself in an intermediate territory, between science and mythology. Through the physical confrontation of the human body and various experimental materials, elements and gravity, the piece activates a visceral and tragic tale of love between humans and the planet to which they are linked.

In a hostile and tactical environment, how do we bring the world together and avoid all-out war? The choreographer Edouard Hue, through a choreographic structure inspired by the game of Go, lets himself be carried away and inspired by the following urgent requirement: to propose a new fundamental need, that of listening between individuals.
In the first part, the duo Shiver – carried by Edouard Hue (Swiss Dance Prize 2019 Exceptional Dancer) and Yurié Tsugawa (performer of major roles in Angelin Preljocaj’s repertoire) – diffuses a thrill of excitement, cold and fear, rendering the spectacle truly thrilling.

Mandatory mentions

SHIVER
With the support of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, Pro-Helviva – Swiss Foundation for Culture, CORODIS – Commission Romande de de Diffusion des Spectacles, City of Annecy

ALL I NEED
Produced by Beaver Dam Company

Co-productions: Festival de Danse de Cannes – Cote d’Azur France, Salle du Lignon – Vernier Culture, Le Dôme Théâtre – Albertville, Equilibre-Nuithonie – Fribourg, Centre Chorégraphique National de Mulhouse – Opéra National du Rhin, L’Auditorium Seynod – Regional Stage Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes Residencies: Château-Rouge, L’Auditorium Seynod – Regional Stage Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, L’Imprimerie – Genève, Théâtre du Vellein – CAPI, Salle du Lignon – Vernier, Centre Chorégraphique National de Mulhouse – Opéra National du Rhin Soutiens: Loterie Romande, Ville de Vernier – Vernier Culture, Ville de Genève, Ville d’Annecy, Fondation Sophie et Karl Binding, Pro-Lhelvetia – Swiss Foundation for Culture, DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Conseil Départemental de la Haute-Savoie, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Anne-Marie Schindler Foundation, Republic and Canton of Geneva, CORODIS – Commission Romande de Diffusion des Spectacles, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region

Binding First Dance partnership with the Sophie and Karl Binding Foundation.