Cribles, 2010
“Children
Of this world, or the other
Singing rounds
Whose absurd, lyrical words
Are surely what is left
Of the most ancient poetic monuments
Of humanity.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
Cribles/live
“When I began working on this piece, I accepted a poetic challenge: to look at the round, a simple ritual form, as a situation which activates our remembering of dances while at the same time giving us the possibility of inventing our own archives. This childish, archaic form is a vehicle for celebrations, rites, wedding and war dances, processions, foot stamping, unison movement. Stories of today run through them. In this community, singularity keeps popping up, “one” appearing in a dynamic, dialogical relationship to the others, sometimes initiating, sometimes being led. This community is inseparable from the singularities which comprise it, always much more than these singularities added together. The link, the attachment renders visible what happens in any group: relationships of power, confronting obstacles like solidarity.
Beneath our feet and between our arms, history is written in the present, pitched between jubilation and fear.
I enjoyed discovering the power of Xenakis’ piece Persephassa, and I wanted to consider it as the protagonist of this work. I feel that its construction in relays of masses, blocks and pulses finds in this dance a visual and choreographic rendering. The acoustic and spatial architecture with its disseminations and transformations of the round support each other, answer each other and bombard each other. Indeed, do we see music or do we hear dance?”- Emmanuelle Huynh
Percussions Rhizome (Didier Breton, Jean-Baptiste Couturier, Alain Durandière, Patrice Legeay, Nicolas Marchand, Hédy Rejiba) interpret Persephassa.
Cribles/Wild
Cribles/Wild is an adaptation, outdoor version, of Cribles/live without musicians
photos © Marc Domage
Press clips :
A magical power pervades this exceedingly supple piece of choreography in which bodies coagulate, pile up, fall away, follow each other, soar, meet each other, rub against each other, come together, face each other and embrace each other. An impressive sampling of choreographic language, of somber power and rough textures, punctuated by sparking sharpness. Cribles alternately stretches and quivers in the beauty of connection, the weight of continuity.
Gérard Mayen - Danser, September 2009
In Cribles, her ambitious work for ten dancers, Emmanuelle Huynh is stuck with a well-known dance figure, the round. Creating choral movement for dancers hold each others’ hands for the entire length of the piece. The most beautiful moment happens when one dancer is literally pulling the entire group after her, Victory guiding her people in movement.
Philippe Noisette - Les Inrocks, July 7, 2009
Credits
Duration : 55 minutes
Choreography Emmanuelle Huynh
Music Iannis Xenakis
Assistance Fanny de Chaillé
Fabrication and interpretation Jérôme Andrieu, Yaïr Barelli, Nuno Bizarro, Yoann Demichelis, Marlène Monteiro Freitas, Madeleine Fournier, Lénio Kaklea, Aline Landreau, AyÅŸe Orhon et Betty Tchomanga
Lumières Yannick Fouassier
Set design and films Jocelyn Cottencin
Costumes Michelle Amet
Thanks to Geneviève Verseau
Production Compagnie Múa, coproduction Centre national de danse contemporaine Angers and Montpellier Danse Festival 2009. With the support of decor workshop of Angers city.
French Ministery of Culture, in Britany (DRAC) support Percussions Rhizome
Cribles / Live is based of Cribles (creation Montpellier Danse 2009), with musicians on stage.
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