BALLROOM

Arthur Perole

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Live performance

maison Folie Wazemmes
1h15
Presence of stroboscopic lights

Ballroom is a hallucinating party; an eruptive physical dance, a dance of excess and unmeasurability, of expense and exhaustion. Ballroom is an incredible participatory space of freedom, both physical and mental. A shared utopia.

As soon as the doors open, the public is greeted in the carnival and thunderous zenith atmosphere! On stage, six performers make up themselves, make costumes with scissors, move, talk, interact with the room. For Arthur Perole, the outlet is a certain intensity of physical vibration, that which produces the Italian tarantella, a traditional Apulian dance assimilated to trance, and the American voguing. Crossing these two sources of inspiration, the choreographer propels his performers in an uninterrupted flow of dance supported by the percussive rhythms of the pizzica, techno and batucada. Finally, we dance!

Biography(s)

Arthur Perole joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris (CNSMDP) in 2007. He met great names in dance such as Peter Goss, André Lafonta, Susan Alexander, Christine Gerard and participated in the creations of Edmond Russo/Shlomi Tuizer, Cristiana Morganti and performed for the Junior Ballet of the CNSMDP in Noces by Angelin Preljocaj and Uprising by Hofesh Shechter. At the end of this training, Arthur continued his career as a dancer with Tatiana Julien, Annabelle Pulcini, Christine Bastin, Radhouane El Meddeb and Joanne Leighton. In 2010, CieF was created to allow him to develop his artistic projects. Initially based in Mouans-Sartoux, it relocated to Marseille in 2017. Since 2014, Arthur Perole has created the piece Stimmlos (2014), Scarlett (2015), Rock’n Chair piece for young audiences (2017), FOOL performance for atypical space (2018), Ballroom (2019), Trouble in the genre performative and festive evening (2019), a documentary film Rêve causé par le vol d’une abeille (Dream caused by the flight of a bee) directed with Pascal Catheland will be released in 2021. In parallel to his artistic projects, he collaborates in theater with the director Vincent Goethals and in 2020 with Wajdi Mouawad.

Credits

Distribution :

Choreography: Arthur Perole

By and with: Julien Andujar, Séverine Bauvais, Marion Carriau,

Joachim Maudet, Alexandre Da Silva, Lynda Rahal

Artistic assistant: Alexandre Da Silva

Outlook: Philippe Lebhar

Music: Giani Caserotto

Lights: Anthony Merlaud

Costumes: Camille Penager

Photography: Nina-Flore Hernandez

Vocal coach: Mélanie Moussay

External outlook: Philippe Lebhar

Light and general stage manager:: Nicolas Galland

Sound:: Benoit Martin

Production and diffusion : Sarah Benoliel

Thanks to: Léa Poiré, Emilie Peluchon et Tadeo Kohan

Mentions :

Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse

Théâtres en Dracénie – scène conventionnée d’intérêt national mention Art et Création

Le Pôle des Arts de la Scène – friche de la Belle de Mai

Le Merlan scène nationale de Marseille

réseau Traverses Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur

Charleroi-danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles

Théâtre Durance scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban

KLAP Maison pour la danse (résidence de finalisation 2019)

Le Ballet National de Marseille – Centre Chorégraphique National

CCN2 Grenoble

With the support of Théâtre Paul Eluard de Choisy-le-Roi, Charleroi-danse centre chorégraphique de Wallonie – Bruxelles, L’Etang-des-Aulnes, Le Dancing de la compagnie BEAU GESTE, le Département des Bouches-du-Rhône – Centre départemental de créations en résidence, La Gare Franche, maison d’artistes & curiosités, Châteauvallon – Scène nationale et le Fonds SACD Musique de Scène.

With the support of the Caisse des Dépôts group.

The company is supported by the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (structuration help), the region Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, the city of Marseille.

Arthur Perole is associated artist at the Théâtres en Dracénie scène conventionnée d’intérêt national mention Art et Création and is artistic compagnon with the KLAP Maison pour la danse à Marseille.