Gregorian chant has shaped the musicality of Europe since the dawn of time. According to historians, it originated in Rome around the fourth century and spread throughout the continent. Neumes” are visual signs on the score that indicate the rhythm of the music, as if with a movement of the hand. Today, only monks, musicologists and specialized musicians know how to decipher these early medieval scores. Notre histoire tells the story of the artistic, spiritual,…
The director revisits the mystery of the origin of her English surname, she who is of Chinese ethnic origin, and discovers parallel stories of two Stephen families in China that question racial appropriation, colonial identities and exotic fantasies.
With Body Concert, the Koreans of the Ambiguous Dance Company traverse several centuries of choreographic creation. It’s a crazy show, a cross between hip-hop and classical dance. The Korean wave is also choreographic! Conceived by Boram Kim and his group, the Ambiguous Dance Company, this contemporary dance show, divided into ten acts, each corresponding to a different musical style, travels through a century of dance history, carried along by seven supercharged dancers in incongruous bathing…
In 1928, Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando, the first novel in which the main character changes sex in the middle of the story. A century later, trans writer and activist Paul B. Preciado decides to send a film letter to Virginia Woolf: her Orlando has come out of her fiction and is living a life she could have never imagined. Preciado organises a casting and gathers 26 contemporary trans and non-binary people, from 8 to 70…
In a dance studio in Lyon, a curious group meets every Monday. Some of them have already crossed paths in the corridors of the Vinatier hospital. All amateurs, they discover movement and the pleasure of dancing They discover movement and the pleasure of dancing together and find themselves in the same creative momentum around Ariane, a choreographer. In partnership with the Maison de la Danse de Lyon and the Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier. With the…
After the huge success of Via Kanana, their collaboration with the South African artist Gregory Maqoma, the Via Katlehong wished to entrust their next creation to two European dance talents: Amala Dianor and Marco da Silva Ferreira… Two singular universes at the crossroads of mixed cultures for a shared evening turned towards the joy of dancing and the desire of sharing. ©JohnHogg EMAPHAKATHINI de Amala Dianor In Emaphakathini, Amala Dianor celebrates youth and the fury of…
There remains only silence in the “Green Jail” in Iriomote Island, Okinawa, Japan. Before World War II, “Green Jail” was a large-scale mining village under Greater East Asia Imperialism which imprisoned thousands of miners, who were from Kyushu, Japanese colonies Taiwan and Korea and other places of Japan. Most of them died from malaria or were forced to work there. As for “Taiwanese miners”, the morphine injection was prevalent so that they could work nonstop…
“Being nude in the flesh doesn’t mean we strip down to our naked hearts,” says an odoriko dancer. But to this film camera, women strippers young and old, open up and reveal more than their skin : an immersion in the intimate world of the theaters’ backstage where they perform, an observation of a melancholic and sensual universe, before it disappears.
“Military occupation” is an abstract term, open to mistaken interpretation. What does “occupation” imply? What does it mean for people living under occupation? What means must be employed so that occupation can be implemented? This film attempts to instill meaning in the term “occupation” in the form of a “manual for military occupation” derived from the testimonies of those people who implemented it in practice. Director Avi Mograbi hosts the viewers in his living room…
As part of the Golden Stage Tour, the crews Femme Fatale and Mazelfreten mix their funky and electro universes on the stage of the Maison de la Danse in Lyon for an energetic show! Different ways of being “Together”. A must-see moment of the season for hip-hop dance lovers, the Golden Stage Tour is back with a new theme and two new collectives. For the 2021-2022 season, the power trio Femme Fatale and the group…
