In Medias Res: The heavens can still fall on our heads

Premiere, production 2012

Saturday February 11 at 8:30 pm, MJC Roguet

Saint-Cyprien, 9 rue de Gascogne, 31300 Toulouse, France

Info and reservations: 00 33 5 61 77 26 00 http://www.mjcroguet.com

Concept, choreography, multimedia: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

Created with and danced by: Coline Baudouin, Clément Garcia

Additionnal contribution for the music: David Fieffé

Production 2011

Project in collaboration with duo  Scenocosme

(Grégory Lasserre and Anaïs met den Ancxt)

An interactive dance performance for two dancers

full documentation / contact for touring

Next venue:

30 March - Festival Electrochoc – Les Abattoirs – Bourgoin Jallieu (near Lyon)

Recent presentations:

7 November – 3:00 pm – Center for Digital Creation Le Cube – Issy Les Moulineaux

fotos on Flickr

17 November – 7:00 pm – Alénya (Perpignan) – salle Antonio Machado – project Convivencia Pyrénées Méditerranée

2 October – 8:00 pm – La Caldera – Barcelona (CorpusMedia 2011)

3 – 4 Septembre – Abbaye de l’Escaladieu – “Digital horizons” – Hautes-Pyrénées

5 August – Cité de l’espace – Astralia space  – Toulouse

21 May – Lieu Commun – Toulouse (CorpusMedia 2011)

20 May -  Theater Marcel Pagnol – Villeneuve-Tolosane

April 5 – Théâtre de la Digue – Toulouse

March 19 and 20 – Poitiers

Le 6ème Souffle de l’équinoxe

Choreography: Anne Holst & Jean-Marc Matos (Compagnie K. Danse)

Interactive scenography, sound, lights: Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt)

Dancers: Aude Miyagi & Julien Lecuziat

Tactile Sensations is a dance performance that investigates the meaning and intimacy of touch and its social construction: the connection to memory and human attachment, emotion, desire, rejection.

How and why do people touch each other? How is touch initiated between people? What is the meaning of touch?

This performance stages the sensitive relationship between a man and a woman.

The overall theme is enhanced by the interactive experience of producing and altering the sound and lights via the digital treatment of data coming from the contact between two bodies.

The exchange happens when the two dancers touch each. This investigation of touch within the performance is augmented and made more clearly perceptible to the audience by adding the aural and visual sense in that each moment of touch (dancer-dancer) – according to the various meanings of the touch graded according to which part of the dancers body touches or is touched – produces a specific sound and variations in lights. This augmentation of the sense of touch by associating sound and light thus induces, enhances and stimulates the senses and makes the audience acutely aware of the multiple meanings of bodily human interaction which in daily life nowadays are often suppressed, subconscious or ignored.

Site specific version of the performance in the public space

Production 2010

Contemporary dance and multimedia performance for three female performers,

adaptable for any stage and site specific outdoor public space.

Complete dossier / Photo HD / video excerpts

Recent presentations: in the context of CorpusMedia 2010,

- 21 may 2010, Théâtre Marcel Pagnol, Villeneuve-Tolosane, 8:00 pm

- 29 May 2010, Mix’Art Myrys, Toulouse, 9:30 pm

- 19 June 2010, “Mouvements sur la Ville” Festival, l’Atelier, Montpellier 3:00 and 11:00 pm

- 16 July 2010,« Llunes d’esBaluard » Festival, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, 10:00 pm

Choreographic trio inspired by Hélène Cixous’ The Laugh of the Medusa and Australian poet Diane Fahey’s feminist poetry, Genesis 3:16 un-occults woman as a concept and exposes classical representations: women stuck in mythological stereotypes in the interest of power, women having to express according to dominant male discourse, women who cannot explore their black continent because “black is dangerous”. By associating dance, text, song, music, images and symbolic objects in a journey towards a feminine being-in-the-world, another vision is allowed to emerge.

Performers: Aude Miyagi, Anne Panjwani, Julie Pichavant

Music: David Fieffé

Video: Guillaume Bautista

Costumes: Aude Miyagi

Light design: Jean-François Langlois

Concept: Anne Holst

Artistic and choreographic directorship: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

Project description

Genesis 3:16 is part of a series of several recent pieces which deal with the theme of the relationships between the gender: Echo Room (2009), Nuit Ecran (2007), Lovely User (created for the Monik Festival, Odyssud, Blagnac, 2005).

With music, text and movement the performers embody these visions to give the audience an entertaining interpretation of the tensions between them.

Duration: 50 mn.

photos

(photos: Karine Labrunie)

Production 2009-2010

Interactive dance performance.

Echo Room questions the domination of the other and the structure of relationships between men and women.  The choreography draws on the dialectics

of the body which is inherited and socially constructed on the one hand, and lived and free to make choices on the other. The uncontrollable is juxtaposed with the controlled and imposes itself like an echo of the past.

Echo Room deals with the simultaneous perception of various states of one given reality embodied in a man-woman relationship through the use of physiological sensors. It questions the relationship between movement, physiology and psychological structures through a danced duo to be experienced by the audience in three spaces.  Each space emphasizes either the live dance; the physiological reactions-interactions of the dancers through sound, shape and colour; or the mental space of the dancers through reactive sound and video. This is achieved by treating information collected by sensors attached to the dancers which measure their physiological reactions: muscular tension, breathing, and heartbeat which allows for another real-symbolic-past-future space/time interpretation of the dance that we see unfolding before us.

In the site specific version the audience is invited to circulate in three separate spaces, inside of a given location. In the stage version the audience can experience the three spaces simultaneously either in the house or around the dancers on the stage itself as images and sound are projected on screens suspended on stage and on the walls of the house.

Dancers: Benjamin-Aliot Pagès, Yuko Yamada
Music composer: David Fieffé
Video artist: Guillaume Bautista
Sensors engineering: Julien Marro-Dauzat
Computer programming: Théo de Lahogue
Concept: Anne Holst
Artistic and choreographic directorship: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

As part of CorpusMedia 2009, euro regional platform ”Digital Performance” and the “Pôle Art-Science-Danse” 2010.

Residency at the National Center for Live Performance Writings, La Chartreuse of Villeneuve-Lès-Avignon, 17-23 April 2010.

Venues:

Maison Salvan Art et Science, Labège, 19 november 2010

Center for Digital Creation, Le Cube, Issy les Moulineaux, 15 November 2009

Festival Empreintes Numériques, 29 April 2009
“Art Gallery” version Centre Culturel Bellegarde, Toulouse

Maison Salvan Art et Science, Labège, work in progress, december 2008 (as part of the CorpusMedia 2008 event)

Downloads:

Complete description.pdf |  Photo HD

(photos by Raphaël Kann)

Production 2005-2006

in collaboration with artist-programmer
Antoine Schmitt

Gameplay transposes the language and technology of video games to a choreographic environment

where the dancer is confronted with challenges paralleling the notion of the physical test present in many rites of passage A performance in which a dancer is confronted with a visual and sonic semi-autonomous environment sensitive to her/his presence.

Premiere: November 2005, VAD Festival, Girona, Catalonia

Some recent venues and upcoming dates:

• 9 Nov 2005: Festival VAD (Video i Arts Digitals), Girona (Catalonia-Spain)
• 3 Dec 2005: Festival nuit numérique #3, Reims (Fr)
• 11 Dec 2005: Le Cube, Issy Les Moulineaux (Fr)
• 18 Mar 2006: Le Périscope, Nîmes (Fr)
• 17 November 2007: Digitalis Festival, Langogne, la Dr@aille, as part of the euro regional project CorpusMedia (Fr)
• 12-13 February 2008: Théâtre Universitaire, Nantes (Fr)
• 1st March 2008: lecture demonstration, NIAS, Bangalore (India)
• 24 Octobre 2008: Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains (Fr)
• 27 February 2009: DiD Festival , Milano (Italy)
• 12 February 2010: Centro Cultural El Matadero, Huesca (Spain) …

Links:

• Press
• Photos, tech rider, long video

Downloads:

Complete description-pdf | | Tech sheet | Detailed sheets | Link to Antoine Schmitt’s site

Production 2009

As part of the Festival La Novela K. Danse presents the Danse e-Toile project: Nataraja and the Cosmos, 17 Octobre 2009

Celebrating International Year of Astronomy 2009

Indo-French internet-streamed performance and event

Press clip from daily national Hindu 13/12/2009

Photo animation

An art-science collaboration between Sharada Srinivasan (Bharata Natyam dancer and Associate Professor, NIAS, Bangalore, India) and the team of K. Danse, France of Jean-Marc Matos and Anne Holst) on the crossed theme: mythology of the body/mythology of stars.

The event, taking place October 17 at the Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse from 2 :30 pm until 5 :00 pm, offers: 1/ a related photo, video and musical exhibition, 2/ an internet-streamed simultaneous east-west dance fusion performance across the venues of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) (CREST), Hoskote, and Cité De L’Espace, Toulouse by Sharada Srinivasan and Anusha Emrith, 3/ discussions between Indian and French astrophysicists, also in relation to Prof. Sharada Srinivasan’s researches linking the Nataraja imagery to stellar observations and also connections between astronomical traditions in the Orient and West including India and Egypt.

Program

- 2.30-3.30 pm French time; and 20 minutes online webcast: (6 pm onwards Indian time)

Thematic Photo-exhibition at Cité De L’Espace, Toulouse by Sharada Srinivasan

(artistic, archaeometallurgical & archaeoastronomical insights on Nataraja) and films by     Jean-Marc Matos

- 3.30-4.30 pm French time/7-8 pm Indian Time: ‘Danse e-Toile’ dance performance

- 4.30-5.00 pm French time/8-8.30 pm Indian time:

Online exchange between Indian & French scholars & astrophysicists

Artistic and scientific team

Artistic collaboration: Sharada Srinivasan, Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos

Dance: Anusha Emrith (France and Reunion-based contemporary dancer), Sharada Srinivasan (Bangalore-based archaeological scientist and Bharata Natyam dancer)

Music: David Fieffé; Bharata Natyam ensemble music led by late Guru Narmada & Srivatsa

Special live-streamed veena prelude by Geeta Navale; mridangam inputs by Gurumurthy

Invited scientist: Karine Guadré, « Docteur » in Astronomy, University of Toulouse

Supporting Agencies

In France: Festival La Novela (City of Toulouse), CulturesFrance (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Cité de L’Espace (Toulouse), Observatoire de Midi-Pyrénées (University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III), Théâtre Marcel Pagnol (Villeneuve-Tolosane),

x-réseau/Théâtre Paris-Villette, technological partner

In India: Alliance Française de Bangalore, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore,

Microsoft, Saint-Gobain Glass India Ltd, JSW Foundation, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, ISRO

Production et technical team: Rakesh Mannar, Sanjiv Gorkha, Rekesh Mohan, Digvijay Mallah

photos credits: Digvijay Mallah, K. Danse, Cité de l’Espace (Sandra Henry-Baudot)

Production 2008

Multimedia dance performance specially adapted for a scenic stage and for site specific architectural outdoor spaces.

Street Festival of Ramonville, 13 September 2008

(photos by Raphaël Kann)

Production 2008

The theme of  “Délices” is about dance itself and the understanding of what the word dance means.

Team:

• choreography, video: Anne Holst, Jean-Marc Matos
• dance:  Audrey Bodiguel, Julien Lecuziat, Yuko Yamada
• music: David Fieffé

Production 2006-2007
video excerpt with performer Yuko Yamada, in collaboration with programmer Ivan Chabanaud and composer Roland Cahen

As technologies develop, the individual senses a growing agency, an increasing power over the world. But as the human interlocutor is replaced by technology, the exerting power becomes displaced and intangible.As the power of the individual in virtual space increases, the power of the body in physical space is reduced by a strategic partitioning of time, space and movement.
The western metaphor of light as objectivity and truth posits light/sight as right and good; darkness as bad. The images that surround us often promulgate this idea. Para_site investigates these notions – power, discipline, and the docile body.

• 16 December 2006: Médiathèque of Camponac, Pessac
• 3 March 2007: Caixa Forum, Barcelona (Festival IDN)
• 3-4 May 2007: Bellegarde Cultural Center, Toulouse
• 29 September 2007: Theatre Marcel Pagnol, Villeneuve-Tolosane

Links:

• The first step
• Information wiki
• Ivan Chabanaud
• Roland Cahen

Downloads:

complete description-pdf | technical sheet | Bio partners