Snow White by Catherine Baÿ Workshops and - Blanche

Snow White by Catherine Baÿ
Workshops and Performances
Snow White Workshop by Catherine Baÿ
Workshop proposal for students of art, theatre, dance, etc.
(ending with an original installation/performance)
‘Snow White’ is a wide-reaching and long term project involving multiple appearances of the
Snow White character in a large number of unique events.
A stage performance first presented in April 2003 at studio 14 Paradis, Paris was the starting
point for a project that continues to grow thanks to regular new appearances of Snow White.
Echoing the initial show, the original performances staged by Catherine Baÿ in each new
location are put together during a workshop involving a variety of participants (actors,
dancers, students of art, drama and dance, etc).
This workshop aims to bring people together to focus productively on Catherine Baÿ’s project
and create a unique new manifestation of Snow White.
When this project is sold to theatres or other organisations, the workshop lasts one week (7
full days) so that a ‘lite’ version can be offered. This relatively short timeframe does, however,
lay down the foundations for further work, and it may be interesting to continue over a longer
(‘richer’) period, in order to explore the theme further and work towards a significant specific
performance.
The workshop is not only designed for art, dance and drama students, but also for students
working in non-artistic fields who wish to engage in practical work involving an in-depth
exploration of Catherine Baÿ’s work and leading to a new Snow White performance with
different participants as a natural complement to the learning project.
Teaching approach
1 - Catherine Baÿ’s work for the Snow White project
‘… I am fascinated by the signs and models inherent in society, and my work is above all an
exploration of form, and a critique of form…’
Catherine Baÿ develops spectacular performance events based on the representation of a
subject or an object that everyone is able to identify.
She meticulously observes the social codes associated with these elements in order to
manipulate and subvert them by decontextualising and using them in unexpected ways.
Her creations are always an opportunity to work with people from different walks of life.
Instead of ‘acting’, she encourages them to invest her projects with their own personalities.
This aspect of Snow White is a determining feature, as it means that Catherine Baÿ can
create a form of tension between two modes of representation, one relating to the tame,
unsurprising image of Walt Disney’s Snow White, and the other embodied by each individual
who makes the fairytale character his or her own.
For each new Snow White event, Catherine Baÿ approaches local organisations with a
workshop proposal. She outlines a clearly defined project that explores both the notion of
uniqueness and the way it can form part of today’s world. She believes that is it possible to
play with the way models and mimetic representations work in order to rediscover the multifacetted nature of our identities. In the performance space, a few movements and gestures
are enough to compose or break up a group or form an aggregation, a duplication, an
individuality, etc.
This is why the work is broadly based on the idea of the chorus; it attempts to elaborate
combinations that re-situate the chorus within a circumscribed space, based on a series of
special exercises.
How can we use the chorus to explore notions like ‘group’, ‘crowd’, or ‘individual’?
How can an individual express him/herself via a model?
2 – Snow White: performance proposal
This hybrid project uses performance, literature and video and is reconstructed according to
each new place where it is presented. It is essentially a ‘work in progress’ which, although it
formulates a response to the Snow White prototype, is open to each unique encounter and
what each participant brings to it.
This means that the work takes the specific features of each location into account. The notion
of performance (and the way the multiple representations of the character invest the
performance space) always focuses on an exploration of various concrete parameters: the
way the space is laid out, its history and architecture, local and national cultural identity, etc.
This workshop aims to familiarise participants with these parameters so that they can play
with them within a specific framework.
Workshop content
Step 1: Presentation of project.
Catherine Baÿ meets participants
Presentation of previous events (videos)
Notions of representation and performance (danger, fragility, encounter, etc)
Creation of the group.
With Catherine Baÿ, Choreographer, art director for the Snow White project
Duration: 2 days
Step 2: focus on the group and the individual in the performance space
Exercises on movement and positioning the body.
Notion of presence
Constitution and dynamics of the chorus: listening to others
With Catherine Baÿ
Duration: 5 days
Step 3: Musicality, rhythm, texture
Focus on colours, elements (air, water, fire), and animality
Walking and rhythm
Spatial dynamics
With Catherine Baÿ
Duration: 5 days
Step 4: Creation of a specific vocabulary of gesture
Focus on relationships with the group, the country, and invested space in order
to work on the notion of performance in the chosen locale.
Composition and deployment of this vocabulary with a view to staging a
performance.
With Catherine Baÿ + Roël Stassart (costume designer and set designer for the
Snow White project)
Duration: 5 days
Step 5: Building the performance itself
Taking possession of the space
Costume and makeup
Rehearsals and warmups
Performance
With Catherine Baÿ + ?? (depending on the final performance)
Duration: 5 days
Snow White: the project
A stage performance first presented in April 2003 at studio 14 Paradis, Paris was the starting
point for a project that continues to grow thanks to regular new appearances of Snow White.
Begun in November 2002, the Snow White project moves forward thanks to an ongoing series of
interventions.
In the form of performances, these Snow Whites proliferate around the world, multiplying in the same
way as mass culture does. Snow White, a character who has arrived from another place, spreads like
a virus, taking over a locale, making it her own, and then leaving as quickly as she came.
Catherine Baÿ’s Snow Whites traffic on the margins, at what she considers to be the indefinable limits
of dance, theatre, mime, automata or puppetry; the never, it seems, have total control of their
movements. By being multiplied and repeated, the signs conveyed by Snow White and her myth end
up being distorted. Gesture is most often amplified by installing monitors screening a video of Snow
White in different parts of the world reading a text entitled "My Condition". This satirical text further
reinforces Catherine Baÿ’s critical approach. In addition to this, a specially designed sound
environment also contributes to the choreographic orchestration.
What Catherine Baÿ wants to explore most of all in this work in progress is how we relate to images.
She bases these performances on the representation of subjects or objects that anyone can identify.
Like an ethnologist, she then meticulously observes the social codes associated with these elements
in order to manipulate and subvert them by decontextualising and using them in unexpected ways.
In this project, Catherine Baÿ revisits the Snow White story via performances that are composed and
presented in direct correlation with a place, its population and its history. Her exploration of the
geographical, political, cultural and social context is vital to the creative process that gives rise to the
performance. At a workshop starting off each installation–performance project, Catherine Baÿ works
with art, dance and theatre students as well as artists with different backgrounds from all over the
world.
She asks those taking part to don Snow White’s clothes and, wearing these generic latex costumes, to
revisit their own context. Beyond the choreographic code that is set up, each Snow White preserves
her own unique character, making it possible to go beyond the tensions between the social group and
the individual.
Snow White embodies different roles according to where she is. She has been seen in many different
places and situations, in cities and in the countryside, in an art gallery or a shipyard, alone, in small
groups or in squadrons.
Snow White: always the same, and yet always different. Her successive appearances in one or
several places at once creates an impression that is both familiar and strange, as if our memory is
playing tricks on us, somewhere between childhood feelings and the lure of advertising, half dream
and half nightmare.
As an icon of the consumer society and a hostage to her own effigy, how can Snow White free herself
from the representations that are associated with her?
Her overexploitation by the imagery of mass culture has almost made her into a logo for mercantilism;
but it is precisely by exploiting this over-exploited image that Catherine Baÿ intends to make here into
a pivotal figure rooted in this very contradiction. It is an image that both standardises us and sets us
apart from one another; using this dichotomy, Catherine Baÿ asserts the diverse interpretations of a
so-called ‘fairy’ story.
The image of this alienation, via Snow White’s costume, functions as a vector for revealing
representations. In this work, Catherine Baÿ takes the representation of Snow White and carries out
what amounts to a deconstruction of the performing arts industry. Aware of the impossibility of
embodying Snow White, the choreographer takes hold of this image and accentuates its form by
cloning it.
This work is about reactivating an imaginary environment around a character that has been so
overused in the media that it has become an ordinary consumer product, and making it into a popular
show.
Photographs
As a natural extension of the Snow White Project, Catherine Baÿ has initiated a number of
collaborations with photographers who have captured Snow White as she has appeared in selected
locations.
In Marc Domage’s photographs, Snow White appears in and walks through different landscapes. In
Cuba, photographer Catherine Merdy made a series of images in which Snow White is faced with the
architecture of Havana and Cuban culture. In Hans Gissinger’s photographs, she wanders through
the city of New York. In the Poitiers region, Laurent Friquet photographed a squadron of Snow
Whites landing in a helicopter in the Rouillé market square.
© Marc Domage, 2003
© Laurent Friquet, rurart 2010
© Hans Gissinger, Hotel NY 2009
Installation / Video / Film
In addition to these photographic series, there are also video installations and films.
All these media make up a corpus of images that inform the question of recycling and re-appropriating
mass culture. Catherine Baÿ has made her first film, entitled Episode#1, with Catherine Merdy as
camerawoman. Other films are planned.
Video installations reinforce the intense psychological power of the image and the ‘hall of mirrors’
effect that lies at the heart of the Snow White Project.
Snow White, TV presenters, Video Installation, Todaysartfestival, The Hague, 2009
Part of the Rendez-vous du Forum / Centre Pompidou – Paris
L’association du 41 and Le Labo A235 present
Le Banquet de Blanche-Neige/Snow White’s Banquet
Carte Blanche for Catherine Baÿ
Installations, performances and videos
21 - 25 July 2010
Beaux Arts magazine, BAM 315, September 2010, photo : Hervé Véronèse.
Snow White’s Banquet at the Pompidou Centre
Begun in 2002, The Snow White Project proceeds via a series of performance
events. This installation at the Pompidou Centre from 19 to 25 July 2010 formed a
natural extension of the project in the form of a strange Banquet in which some
fifteen Snow Whites took part. They made this meal into an accumulation of gestures
and movements, somewhere between collective madness, childlike behaviour, and a
fairground throwing game. Faced with the passage of time, the movements of these
Snow Whites changed, causing shifts of meaning. These Snow Whites had been
there for an unknown length of time and ceaselessly repeated the rituals of a meal
that never stopped ending. Artists and personalities were invited to share the
banquet, creating interconnections between very different worlds. The Banquet set
out to bring these worlds face to face with the Pompidou Centre, whose history,
architecture and heritage already form part of our collective memory but which is also
a place that is open to ongoing creative processes. The Snow Whites, folk tale
characters which have become ordinary consumer products, were here at the very
heart of the Pompidou Centre; they took possession of the place and invited artists
and thinkers to their table in order to ‘consume’ the history of our culture.
Catherine Baÿ invited performers from the Laboratoire A235, a performance research
and distribution performance organisation founded by Catherine Baÿ and Samantha
Barroero, to take part in Snow White’s Banquet.
Laboratoire A235 is located at 41 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin – Passage Gustave
Goublier – 75010 Paris. Here people from the art world put together performance
projects, developing the principle of a network. Like the Snow White Project with its
principle of multiplying ad infinitum, the aim is to create a meeting place where ideas
can be explored and where artists can compare and develop their work thanks to the
structure of the locale. The specific nature of performance and issues relating to its
presentation, its challenges, and its limitations are all questions the Laboratoire A235
research team wishes to address, exploring the ramifications and interactions
inherent in the production, development and staging of performance pieces.
Performers close to Catherine Baÿ’s concerns (including actors, musicians, clowns,
philosophers, and a chef) paid a visit to Snow White’s Banquet.
Artists invited to Snow White’s Banquet by Laboratoire A235 :
Laurent Friquet, Pascal Lièvre, Tsuneko Taniuchi, Pauline Colonna d’Istria et Florian
Gaité, Azzedine Saleck, Christoph Hefti, Le Grand Bizarre, Carole Douillard,
Lindaboie, Lea Zitrone, Thierry Mouillé, Robert Kluijver
http://lelaboratoirea235.blogspot.com/
Catherine Baÿ has also produced a video programme based on the video collections
of the Pompidou Centre and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
(http://art-action.org).
A team
For the Snow White Project, Catherine Baÿ has set up a system of partnerships and
interactions making it possible for different personalities to take part in the creative process
as the project moves forward.
About Catherine Baÿ
Catherine Baÿ lives and works in Paris.
After studying theatre (at the Jacques Lecoq School and with Philippe Gaulier and Antoine
Vitez), ethnology (with Jean Rouch) and dance (with Marcia Barcello, Philippe Decouflé and
Milly Nichols), she began to develop her own approach as a choreographer and director
fifteen years ago. Her career has led her to experiment with different forms (choreography,
performance art, theatre direction, video, cabaret) and to collaborate with artists working in
different fields.
From 1987 to 1994, Catherine Baÿ organised performances and events in various types of
space: swimming pools, nightclubs, abandoned industrial buildings, the Yvon Lambert and
Anne de Villepoix Galleries, etc. She has worked with artists such as Combas, Jean-Charles
Blais and Sylvia Bossu, architects such as Laurence Bourgeois and Pascale Lecoq, and
actors and dancers such as Alain Rigout, Amy Garmon and Laurence Levasseur.
Since 1994, she has turned her attention specifically to codes of representation. She
examines the gaps between the private and social body in Relief ou le discours sur
l'éloquence, a critique of the posturing of politicians during the 1995 elections. Ainsi parlaient
Eliane et Lulu, a piece she worked on with Marco Berrettini and Kolatch, involves the
confrontation of unusual bodies on stage. In 1999, she choreographed Nains mode d'emploi,
a performance that took place in a glass-fronted box. Here, Catherine Baÿ elaborated a
complex scenographic process that created a dialogue between a video screen and actors.
She exaggerates the motif of the jester, which provides a focus for her satirical approach. At
present she is working on new "Snow White" performances (www.blanche-neige.fr) and a
new piece entitled "Jack in the Box".
Building on the experience of the Snow White Project, Catherine Baÿ has developed the
A235 method (http://methode-A235.blogspot.com) involving a number of workshops. The
first of these took place in Juy 2009 at Micadanse (Paris) and continued at the Gilbert
Brownstone Foundation (Paris) in 2010. In parallel, Catherine Baÿ is artistic director and coproducer of various initiatives hosted at her offices at 41 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin à
Paris.
All of Catherine Baÿ’s initiatives are springboards for original art, for example the Nue &
Habillé [Naked and Dressed] cabaret (1994), the work entitled Window created with Gilles
and Roël Stassart (1999), The Window 41, a gallery curated by Charlotte Batifol and Yann
Perol (carte blanche 2009 - 2010), and Laboratoire A235, the performance research and
distribution organisation she founded in 2009. All have made it possible to create original
events and to explore the dynamic potential of production, distribution and the creative
process.
---------------------------------------------- Chronology of Performances
6-11 décembre 2011 : Blanche-Neige, suite inédite au Silencio (Club de David
Lynch) Performances et installations vidéo, Paris. http://silencio-club.com
23 septembre 2011 : Blanche-Neige, suite inédite - Installation vidéo et Performance
de Catherine Baÿ le 23 septembre 2011 à partir de 18h30
Exposition : Contes de fée et art contemporain avec Alice Anderson, Catherine Baÿ,
Matthew Barney, Katia Bourdarel, Will Cotton, Wim Delvoye, Jim Dine, Anna Gaskell,
Karen Knorr, Kiki SMith
Maison de la Culture de la Province de Naumur, Belgique
5 juin 2011 : Jack in the Box Performances et installation au Mac/Val le Musée
d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry s/Seine. www.macval.fr
1er au 14 mai 2011 : Blanche-Neige Workshop et Performances à l'île de la
Réunion du dans le cadre du Leu Tempo festival sur une invitation du FRAC
Réunion. http://fracreunion.wordpress.com
1er et 2 avril 2011 : Jack in the Box Performances et Installation Festival 360
degrés - La Passerelle Scène nationale de St Brieuc. www.lapasserelle.info/360.html
9 sept. 2010 : Jack in the Box Performances et Installation Fondation Cartier
Soirée Nomade – Carte Blanche à Catherine Baÿ. http://fondation.cartier.com
16 oct. 2010 : « Blanche-Neige, suite inédite », performance, Carte Blanche au LabO
A 235 dans le cadre de Frasq 2010, rencontre de la performance, organisée par le
Générateur, Gentilly.
http://www.frasq.com/frasq_2010/p_artistes/bay.html
18 Sept. 2010 : « Blanche-Neige, suite inédite », performance, Festival Pleins
Feux à Ivry-sur-Seine dans le cadre des journées du patrimoine, organisé par
ArtMédia, curateur Alfred Gharapetian.
http://www.pleinsfeux.ivry94.fr/_depot_ivry/actualites/316/316_1_doc.pdf
9 Septembre 2010 : Soirée Nomade consacrée à Catherine Baÿ : « Nains mode
d’Emploi » et « Jack in the box », performances et installations, organisée par Isabelle
Gaudeffroy, Fondation Cartier, Paris
18-20 Août 2010 : "Nains mode d’Emploi ", Performances et Installation, Festival
d’Aurillac.
19-25 juil. 2010: « Blanche-Neige, Le Banquet », suite inédite du projet BlancheNeige,
Performances, installations, vidéos et artistes invités par Catherine Baÿ et le Laboa235,
Centre Georges Pompidou, « Les rendez-vous du Forum », Paris.
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/0/9B827C27A83154C9C125775800
525114?OpenDocument&L=1
30 juin-1er juillet : « Snow White, Episode#1 », vidéo projetée dans le cadre du
parcours d’art vidéo. « Paris à Tel’Aviv » Curator Marie Shek, Nuit Blanche, Tel’Aviv.
10 juin-1er août 2010:
Catherine Baÿ « Blanche-Neige, la Rumeur » suite inédite du
projet Blanche-Neige, performances et exposition Espace d’art Contemporain, Rurart,
Rouillé.
http://www.rurart.org/N/espace_art_rurart/C_BAY/catherine_bay_rumeur_2010.php
6 et 7 Nov. 09 : Blanche-Neige à L'Opéra de Lille, Workshop et Performance, dans le
cadre de "Qui va là ? Soirée exceptionnelle proposée par Christian Rizzo.
http://www.opera-lille.fr/fr/season-09-10/bdd/cat/danse/sid/99189_qui-va-laSept. 09 : Blanche-Neige à La Haye, Worshop, Performance et installation, Curator
Robert Kluijver. Snow White in The Hague was part of the “Mare Liberum: 1609-2009”
Celebration of the appearance in The Hague, 400 years ago, of the seminal text of
international law, “The Free Sea” (Mare Liberum) written by jurist Hugo Grotius. Snow
White in The Hague was also part of the Todaysart festival, 25-26 September 2009.
http://2009.todaysart.nl/
15 mai 09 : Blanche Neige ou les nouveaux territoires de résistance : conférence de
Catherine Baÿ et Auriane Bel à Toulon.
18 avril 09 : Performance de Blanche neige around 3,30 pm, au CA2M Centro de Arte
Dos de Mayo, Madrid.
Janvier 2009 : Jack in the Box, résidence à Kunstencentrum BUDA, Courtrai,
www.budakortrijk.be
Décembre 08 : Blanche-Neige bodyguard de Shit&Shine ON TOUR... 4 déc à Bruxelles,
AB Club. 10 déc à Paris, Instants Chavirés, Festival Sonic Protest.
Octobre 08 : Blanche-Neige à Porto, Portugal à la Fondation Serralves, curator Cristina
Grande. Performance pour 16 Blanche-Neige.
& Blanche-Neige à la Bourse de Bruxelles, Belgique, dans le cadre de la Nuit Blanche,
curator Anne-Sophie Corbeau.
Septembre 08 : Blanche-Neige à New York City dans le cadre du Festival Crossing the
Line organisé par le French Institute Alliance Française de New York, curators Lili Chopra
et Simon Dove.
16 sept : Diane von Furstenberg / Performance pour 10 Blanche-Neige.
21 sept : Luxe Gallery / Performance pour 1 Blanche-Neige.
26 sept : Dumbo under the bridge festival, Orange Gallery, Room 204 / Performance
pour 3 Blanche-Neige. Projection Episode#1 : Dance Theatre Workshop, Chashama
Gallery.
20 Septembre 08 : Blanche-Neige dans le parc des Cormailles à Ivry, pour les Journées
du Patrimoine, organisé par l'association ArtMédia, curateur Alfred Gharapetian.
Performance pour 15 Blanche-Neige.
Mai 08 : Blanche-Neige dans la boutique Sonia Rykiel pour l' exposition itinérante
organisée par le Parcours Saint Germain, Paris, curator Anne-Pierre d' Albis.Performance
pour 7 Blanche-Neige et du 29 mai au 19 juin exposition à la boutique Sonia Rykiel, 175
Bd St-Germain.
Avril 08 : Projection du film Episode#1 à Beaubourg, Paris, dans le cadre du festival
VidéoDanse, curateur Michèle Bargues, le 3 avril à 18h30.
& Blanche-Neige à la Havane, Cuba. Invitation par la Biennale de danse de Caraïbes,
curator Noël Bonilla-Chongo. Performance pour 7 Blanche-Neige.
Fév. 2008 : Présentation du film « Blanche Neige » au Saitama Arts Foundation, Japon,
en collaboration avec le Festival VidéoDanse, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Déc. 2007 : Présentation du film Blanche-Neige Episode #1 à l’exposition « The art
video collection », dans le cadre du Festival inter numérique de Lorient.
Sept. 2007 : Blanche Neige pour les Journées du Patrimoine, Mac/Val, Musée d’Art
contemporain de Vitry. Performance pour 16 Blanche Neige.
2007 : Exposition collective « Gaude Mihi » à la Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris
Performance « J’ai les boules… »
Nov. 2006 : Présentation du projet Blanche Neige et de son film, séminaire « Le corps
comme label », Centre National de la danse, La Havane, Cuba.
Juin 2006 : Blanche-Neige, Festival Pelouses Autorisées, Parc de la Villette, Paris
Performance pour 15 Blanche-Neige
Mars 2006 : Présentation du film « Blanche Neige » au Festival Hors-Piste, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Déc. 2005 : Blanche-Neige organisé par le TNT, Bordeaux Dans le cadre des NRV#1.
Atelier clôturé par une performance pour 15 Blanche-Neige
Sept. 2005 : Blanche-Neige Festival Arborescence, Aix-en-Provence. Atelier clôturé
par une performance pour 5 Blanche-Neige …
Mai 2005 : Présentation du film Blanche-Neige
Murs à Bogota, Colombie
Episode #1 . VidéoDanse Hors les
Janv. 2005 : Présentation du film Blanche-Neige Episode #1. Réalisation Thomas
Courcelle et Catherine Baÿ. Festival VidéoDanse 05 / Centre Georges Pompidou
Paris.
Oct. 2004 : Piratage Blanche-Neige à la Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris. Dans le
cadre des Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
& Opération Blanche-Neige, commando de 15 Blanche-Neige. 20 ans de la Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Oct. 2004 : Blanche-Neige, Théâtre de l ’Arsenic, Lausanne. Festival Carte Blanche à
Perceuse Production. Atelier clôturé par une performance pour 16 Blanche-Neige …
Sept. 2004 : Blanche-Neige aux Nuits Blanches de Rome. Performance pour 10
Blanche- Neige réaliser dans les vitrines de la Rinascente
Sept. 2004 : Blanche-Neige, le Festival Kliazma, Moscou. Atelier clôturé par une
performance pour 6 Blanche-Neige …
& Blanche-Neige 2ème édition du Festival UOVO, Milan. Performance pour 3 BlancheNeige
Avril 2004 : Blanche-Neige envahit la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Les Soirées Nomades dans le cadre de l’exposition de Marc Newson. Atelier clôturé par
une installation /performance pour 11 Blanche-Neige
Janv. 2004 : Blanche-Neige à l’œuvre – Château de Morsang-sur-Orge, dans le cadre
de l’exposition du plasticien Lionel Scoccimaro - Atelier destiné aux habitants de Morsang
sur Orge, clôturé par une performance pour 5 Blanche-Neige …
Nov. 2003 : Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin – Podewil, Allemagne.
Atelier destiné aux élèves des Ecoles d’arts plastique et de danse, clôturé par une
performance pour 5 Blanche-Neige …
Oct. 2003 : Blanche-Neige s’installe à la Fondation Brownstone, Paris. Atelier clôturé
par une installation/performance pour 6 Blanche-Neige …
Avril 2003 : Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille. Dans le cadre de l’exposition «
Cousu de Fil Blanc ». Atelier destiné aux élèves de l’Ecole d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence, clôturé
par une performance pour 3 Blanche-Neige …
Fév. 2003 : Création du spectacle Blanche-Neige - Studio 14 Paradis – Paris
Spectacle pour 3 Blanche-Neige (5 représentations de 45 mn.)…
Déc. 2002 : Satellite N °1 - Window – Paris. Performance pour 1 Blanche-Neige (avec
l’artiste Tsuneko Taniuchi)…
20 novembre 2002 : Première conférence de presse - Mains d’Œuvres, Saint Ouen.
Performance pour 2 Blanche-Neige sur le plateau et 5 en vidéo… le 20 novembre
soutenue par le dialogue de Peter Sloterdijk et Carlos Oliveira (Essai d'intoxication
volontaire), a eu lieu une première conférence de presse de « Blanche-Neige » dans les
locaux de Mains d'œuvres à Saint Ouen avec Maria Donata d'Urso et Margarette Zenou.
2002 : Nains mode d'Emploi, Festival Bellone Brigittines - Bruxelles.
& Le Cochon, performance pour un danseur, événement chorégraphique et politique,
Window - Paris.
2001 : Nains mode d'Emploi, Festival M@rs attaque. Scène nationale de Foorback.
2000 : Point de vue, images du monde, performance pour six acteurs et danseurs.
Les rencontres chorégraphiques, 243m3, galerie Public >, Paris.
& Nains mode d'Emploi, création spéciale vitrine, Window 3.00, Paris.
2000 : Nains mode d'Emploi, Nouvelles scènes, Dijon. Le paysage à la bouche,
performance pour 100 œufs et une danseuse. Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature,
Paris.
1996 : R&J Détail, chorégraphie pour une actrice (et un fauteuil), Festival Les
Confidences au Théâtre des Songes et au TCD, Paris.
& Ohne Titel, chorégraphie pour deux acteurs à propos du double, Festival Les
Inaccoutumés II, la Ménagerie de Verre, Paris.
& Food Lab, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris. Performance pour six
body bulder et sept mâcheurs de chewing gum,
& Nains mode d'Emploi, création spéciale vitrine, Window 1.99, Paris.
1995 : Relief ou le discours de l'éloquence, pièce chorégraphique pour trois acteurs à
propos des élections présidentielles de 1995, Festival Les inaccoutumés I, la
Ménagerie de Verre, Paris.
1994 : Nu et habillé II, Le Pigalls, Paris. Conception et production d’un cabaret avec 16
artistes : plasticiens, acteurs, danseurs et acrobates
& L'homme accroché à une pince à linge, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris.
Performance pour un acteur dans le cadre de l’exposition Peter Fend
1993 : Nu et habillé Première, Le Pigalls, Paris. Cabaret avec la participation de 21
artistes : plasticiens, acteurs, danseurs et acrobates
1992 : Quatre numéros pour un acteur et une contorsionniste. Le Pigalls, Paris.
Assistante à la mise en scène du Cabaret Lasdada conçu par Christine Grasz au Pigalls,
Paris.
1991 : Sur la vie d'Yvon Lambert, événement pour les 20 ans de la Galerie Yvon
Lambert avec la participation de ses amis et artistes dont Combas, Blais, Marcadet,
Legroumellec, Toroni…
& Mardi et comment on y va, La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris. Pièce pour deux acteurs
sur les nouveaux sauvages à partir d'un texte de Buffon.
1990 : Monstre, chorégraphie pour cinq danseurs et une comédienne, Théâtre Marc
Sagnier, Rouen.
1989 :
Nouvel An, performance pour trois actrices, atelier d'artistes, Ivry.
1988 : 1,2,3, vidéo.
1986 : Pyjama, vidéo. Son et lumière, chorégraphie pour deux danseuses, Musée
Matisse, Nice
& Cinq Tentations, performance autour d'une piscine. Soirée privée d'Yvon Lambert Paris.
& La Florida, vidéo.
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