Le Cercle

2018

“[…] deeper and deeper into the darkness so that something will ignite, so that movement will be born.”

Veronika Darida, Balkon.art, April 2019

Note of intent

“This creation intends to explore a new form of choreographic rewriting, based on dialogue and amplification. Starting from an existing piece and its original motif, projecting them into another dimension: an approach conceived in the manner of a symphonic dialogue, where, on the basis of the “theme and variations” scheme, it is a question of developing all the perspectives of the initial theme, with which new formal proposals enter into resonance. The first formulation gave rise in 2012 to the play Le Cercle : created at the Avignon Festival for two dancers in a short version, it was part of a global programme (entitled Le Trait). This first ‘short’ form was an outline already inspired by a broader vision, whose potential for development imposed itself on me. I would like to develop it into a much larger group piece which will reproduce the purpose of the initial research: that of the body totally subjected to the suggestions and vagaries of the sound – which had allowed a very particular gesture to emerge in which the body was freed from any known mechanical structure. Thus becoming the receptacle of a multiplicity of sounds, it reached a state close to trance. This project will also allow me to further question the creative process. It testifies to the fact that creation often comes down to re-embracing, by revisiting them, certain paths that form the framework of a constantly developing writing. So that evolution is fully conceived as a reinterpretation of the essence of the artistic gesture.

Nacera Belaza

Artistic team

Choreography, sound and light design Nacera Belaza
Interpretation Aurélie Berland, Paulin Banc, Magdalena Hylak, Mohammed Ech Charquaouy, Dalila Belaza
Sound and light management Christophe Renaud

Creation

Marseille Festival, 4 and 5 July 2018

Le Cercle, teaser

Production

Nacera Belaza Company

Coproduction

Festival de Marseille
MC93 Bobigny – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
manège, scène nationale Reims
deSingel Campus International des Arts
CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble as part of the Accueil Studio
Corp_Real Galway Dance Days & Irish Modern Dance Theatre funded by the Arts Council of Ireland (2017)
Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre
La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie
Collectif 12, fabrique d’art et de culture de Mantes-La-Jolie

Support

Arcadi Île-de-France
Beaumarchais – SACD

Residencies

Étang des Aulnes, with the support of the Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Centre départemental de créations en résidence and the Festival de Marseille
MC93 Bobigny – Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
manège, scène nationale Reims
Irish Modern Dance Theatre
Corp_Real Galway Dance Days & Irish Modern Dance Theatre funded by the Arts Council of Ireland (2017)
deSingel Campus International des Arts
CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble as part of the Accueil Studio

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