Open rehearsal of the company Le principe d'incertitude - Pierre Godard
Open rehearsal of the company Le principe d'incertitude - Pierre Godard
The Game of life
Dans The Game of Life, du nom de « l’automate cellulaire » inventé par le mathématicien britannique John Conway (que nous détaillons plus bas), un trio de musiciens et un trio de danseurs agissent sur le plateau comme autant d’organelles d’une cellule qui métabolise et se reproduit à l’infini.
Combinatoire et dialectique
Dans un premier temps, nous pensons la « cellule » comme une unité combinatoire à travers laquelle explorer de nouveaux rapports entre le son et le mouvement, par exemple en associant différentes cellules musicales bien définies à une cellule chorégraphique identique, ou inversement.
Il s’agit pour nous de mettre en question deux grands paradigmes observés dans les formes mêlant danse et musique : d’une part un rapport de domination (que ce soit la danse qui illustre la musique, ou bien la musique qui appuie dramatiquement le propos chorégraphique), et d’autre part un rapport d’indépendance (hérité des travaux de Cage et de Cunningham).
Ici, nous voudrions donner au spectateur l’expérience d’un rapport difficile à stabiliser entre les deux médiums, dialectique si l’on veut : ni esclaves, ni maîtres, ni affranchis l’un de l’autre. L’enjeu pour nous est de commencer par déconstruire une forme d’efficacité ou de normalité dans la présence concomitante de musique et de danse en scène.
Un projet proposé par Le principe d’incertitude et L’Instant Donné
Conception, chorégraphie : Pierre Godard et Liz Santoro
Composition musicale : Pierre-Yves Macé
Espace : Mélanie Rattier
Lumière : Laïs Foulc
Danseu·r·ses : Matthieu Barbin, Jacquelyn Elder, Liz Santoro
Musicien·nes : L’Instant Donné
Flûte : Mayu Sato-Brémaud
Percussion : Maxime Echardour
Violon : Saori Furukawa
Rehearsals open to audiences allow them to observe the intimacy of the choreographer and his/ her dancers at work. They are interactive, and include exchanges with audiences in attendance.
Duration: 1 hour
Free entry
Bookings: billetterie@ballet-de-lorraine.eu / T. +33 (0)3 83 85 69 08
Pierre Godard
After studying engineering and starting his career as a quantitative analyst in finance, Pierre Godard first worked in the theatre as an electrician, props technician, stage manager and assistant director. He now devotes himself to the search for performative forms involving movement and text, which try to offer a space of emancipation to the spectator. At the same time, he has just defended a thesis in Artificial Intelligence at LIMSI-CNRS aimed at supporting an effort to document unwritten and endangered languages.
Since the creation of their company Le principe d'incertitude (LPDi) in 2011, Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have been collaborating closely together to build choreographic machines that try to thwart the habits of our attention. The singularity of their respective paths has led them to develop systems of creation centered on movement and text which, by revealing their underlying processes - mechanisms of power and seduction, organization of the social space, operating modes of the nervous system - offer the spectator an experience of a perceptual interaction where looking becomes an action that provokes a reaction. Their work has been presented in France, Europe, North America and Asia. They have created various group pieces, We Do Our Best (2012), Relative Collider (2014), For Claude Shannon (2016), Maps (2017), Noisy Channels (2018, 2019), Stereo (2019) as well as in situ pieces such as Watch It (2012), Quarte (2014), FCS Redux (2017, 2018), Mass over Volume (2017) and Learning (2018, 2019). Watch It received a Bessie Award in 2013 in the category "Outstanding Production for a work at the forefront of contemporary dance".
Liz Santoro
American choreographer and dancer trained at the Boston Ballet School, Liz Santoro studied neuroscience at Harvard University before embarking on a career as a performer for a number of experimental dance artists in New York. This path led her to a somatic research on the "performative body", which remains the main driving force behind her own creation projects and collaborations with LPDi.
Since the creation of their company Le principe d'incertitude (LPDi) in 2011, Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have been collaborating closely together to build choreographic machines that try to thwart the habits of our attention. The singularity of their respective paths has led them to develop systems of creation centered on movement and text which, by revealing their underlying processes - mechanisms of power and seduction, organization of the social space, operating modes of the nervous system - offer the spectator an experience of a perceptual interaction where looking becomes an action that provokes a reaction. Their work has been presented in France, Europe, North America and Asia. They have created various group pieces, We Do Our Best (2012), Relative Collider (2014), For Claude Shannon (2016), Maps (2017), Noisy Channels (2018, 2019), Stereo (2019) as well as in situ pieces such as Watch It (2012), Quarte (2014), FCS Redux (2017, 2018), Mass over Volume (2017) and Learning (2018, 2019). Watch It received a Bessie Award in 2013 in the category "Outstanding Production for a work at the forefront of contemporary dance". Pierre and Liz were the associated artists at the CDCN / Atelier de Paris from 2016 to 2018.