Forme(s) de Vie
French choreographer Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, who most currently presented his works Phoenix (2018) and L’Âge d’or (2019) at tanzhaus nrw, is intensely occupied with the connections between dance, technology, and ethical questions. In Forme(s) de Vie, he refines a practice that first appeared during L’Âge d’or, in which the dancers immerse themselves as part of a choreographic experience as human prostheses with performers of limited mobility. The principle of a mutual transfer of body and dance language will expand in this performance to include a memory level remembering movement. Former boxer Kamel Messelleka and dancer Elise Argaud, together with three dancers, follow up on their earlier movement practices. They never abandoned them, but they applied a new meaning to them over the course of the loss of their mobility. Within the circle of performers, questions of consent and self-determination are examined through the mutual transfer of movement. Supposedly limited bodies and supposedly virtuosic bodies support and influence each other. They persist in the present, with an eye towards the future, looking back on the past. From the exoskeleton to the human prosthesis, Forme(s) de Vie seeks to create a space for intimacy and collective formation that shifts the concept of the “augmented [extended] body”.
Duration: 60 min.
in English and French
Please note: seats are limited
Concept, artistic direction: Éric Minh Cuong Castaing; Choreography: Aloun Marchal, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing; Dramaturgy, first assistant: Marine Relinger; Performance: Aloun Marchal, Antoni Androulakis, Elise Argaud, Kamel Messelleka, Yumiko Funaya; Performance in the movie: Aloun Marchal, Annie Ode, Bruno Santilli, Elise Argaud, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Jeanne Colin, Kamel Messelleka, Martial Buchel, Nans Pierson, Soizic Carbonnel, Yoshiko Kinoshita; Costumes: Silvia Romanelli; Tech: Leo David; Technical execution: Stanislas Kopec; Lighting design: Niels Doucet; Stage: Anne-Sophie Turion; Dance labs: Elise Argaud, Fanny Didelot; Production: Mélanie Marchand; Film Chief Video Operator: Victor Zébo; Sound engineer: François Charrier, Samuel Poiree; First camera assistant: Clement Droy; Chief Montage: Lucie Brux; Props: Alexis Lambotte, Label 42 Studio; Sound development: Renaud Bajeux; Filmproduction: Scarlett Garson; Film direction: Samuel Tuleda; Personal assistant: Delphine Ricardo; Interns: Mathilde Dantec, Louis Grimandi
A production by Festival de Marseille, co-produced by tanzhaus nrw, Prix le BAL de la Jeune Création - Adagp 2021; Vooruit, Points communs, Nouvelle scène nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d’Oise, Pôle Arts de la Scène - Friche la Belle de Mai, CCN Ballet national de Marseille, Résidence Co-laBo/les ballets C de la B, Charleroi Danse, Fonds Transfabrik, Carreau du Temple - dispositif PACT(e), ICK Amsterdam, Scène Conventionnée Le Vivat, Dublin Dance Festival, Ministère de la Culture Délégation à la Danse - dispositif Filmer la danse, C.N.C. DICRéAM, Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône - Ensemble en Provence, Région Sud - Carte Blanche aux Artistes 2020; ARS Paca - Agence Régionale de la Santé / DRAC Paca - Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Dispositif, Culture et Santé, Fondation Porosus, Fondation Handicap et Société, Soutien Conseil départemental des Bouches-du-Rhône - dispositif Ensemble en provence et Centre de création en résidences L’Étang des Aulnes Mise à disposition studio Lieux Publics - centre national de création en espace public - Pôle Européen de Production; KLAP - Maison pour la Danse, marseille objectif DansE, Pôle 164, La Friche Belle de Mai, Partenariats art et santé Centre de soins palliatifs La Maison, Hôpital Ste Marguerite APHM, Hôpital Bretonneau APHP. The guest performance takes place within the framework of Bündnis Internationaler Produktionshäuser, funded by Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien. Also supported by the Institut Francais.
