Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Temps d’Images 2015 Common body
Balansé (Martinique)
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Balansé resumes histories of movement in the single body of choreographer-performer Agnès Dru. Her storytelling body navigates the in-between spaces of multiple cultures and vividly talks to us in the languages of trance, Ladja (a Caribbean form of capoeira from Martinique), modern ballet, hip hop, contemporary dance. While her movements go in conversation with clarinettist Yann Lecollaire, we follow their lines in music and movement and embark in a journey throughout generations, geographies and aesthetics.
by & with: Agnès Dru
clarinet: Yann Lecollaire
music: AM4 Martinique
producer: AD Compagnie; performance created at P.A.R.T.S. Bruxelles
financial support: Departamentul Afacerilor Culturale și Regiunea Martinicăi
www.adcompagnie.com
About the artists
Trained in Ladja, a traditional martial arts dance from Martinique, Agnès Dru builds up her dance experience at Alvin Ailey Company (New York), Choreographic Centre La Termitière (Ouagadougou), National Choreographic Centre Tour/Bernardo Montet (Tour), Heddy Maalem (Toulouse) and works with hip-hop group Zouk & Marie-Françoise Villeneuve, while studying philosophy at Sorbonne and pedagogy at the National Dance Centre (Paris). As a laureate of the CultureFrance creation grant, she developed her solo “I” during a residency (Apatou) and during choreography workshops of the Caribbean Dance Biennale (Cuba). She created “Kalunga” (Salvador) in 2013 and was selected in 2015 as one of the first choreographers for the research pilot project of P.A.R.T.S. Brussels. Agnès also dedicates her time to movement therapy and philosophy at the French Institute of Port au Prince (Haïti) and the psychiatric hospital of Colson (Martinique).
