ROMANCES INCIERTOS

François Chaignaud et Nino Laisné

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Live performance

1h10
Grand Sud

A splendid musical and choreographic epic, played by exceptional musicians and masterfully performed by Francois Chaignaud, who takes us through centuries and styles in the footsteps of great androgynous figures.

A musical as well as a choreographic journey, Romances Inciertos draws on the music Spanish traditions from the 16th and 17th centuries to stage metamorphoses and show the rebirth of “characters who have no other choice than to transform reality to the extent of their desire .” Like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, François Chaignaud takes on various identities: a young girl disguised as a soldier, the disturbing androgrynous figure of San Miguel or the Tarara with a complex and sulphurous personality. The musicians accompany him with rare delicacy on theorbo, viole de gambe, bandoneon or baroque guitar. This creation fascinates by its audacity to us walking between tradition and (post-) modernity.

Biography(s)

François Chaignaud

Born in Rennes, François Chaignaud earned a diploma in 2003 from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Paris, he collaborates soon after with several choreographers, such as Boris Charmatz and Emmanuelle Huynh. From He’s One that Goes to Sea for Nothing but to Make him sick (2004) to Думи мої – Dumy Moyi (2013), he has created performances in which dance and singing intersect, in a wide variety of environments and at the meeting points of many inspirations. From this tension, the possibility of a body takes shape. Also a historian, François Chaignaud publishes “L’Affaire Berger-Levrault : le féminisme à l’épreuve (1898-1905)” with PUR.

In collaboration with artist Nino Laisné, he has created a piece entitled Romances inciertos: un autre Orlando, bringing together four instrumentalists around various ambiguous motifs of genre from the choreographic and vocal Iberian repertoire. In 2018 François Chaignaud also choreographed Soufflette, a piece for the Carte Blanche Ballet (Norway) in collaboration with Romain Brau premiered in May in Studio Bergen.

His new creation in collaboration with musician Marie-Pierre Brébant Symphonia Harmoniæ Cælesitum Revelationum premiered in May 2019 during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels. This piece consists in a research and a contemporary adaptation of the known song repertoire of Hildegard von Bingen, a German abbess and physician. His upcoming projects include collaborations with Akaji Maro, and music ensembles such as Les Cris de Paris and orchestra Les Siècles.

Since 2005, François Chaignaud collaborates closely with Cecilia Bengolea. Together they created Pâquerette (2005-2008), Sylphides (2009), Castor et Pollux (2010), Danses Libres (2010), (M)IMOSA (with Trajal Harrell and Marlene Monteiro Freitas, 2011), altered natives’ Say Yes To Another Excess – TWERK (2012), Dub Love (2013), DFS (2016).
François Chaignaud is associate artist at Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy.

Nino Laisné

In 2009 Nino Laisné graduates from l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (FR), where he specialized in video and photography. Simultaneously, he learned to play the guitar with Miguel Garau, with a greater focus on the South American traditional repertoire. During this particular period grows his wish to bring together contemporary art, music, and cinema in his works. By 2010 and with Os Convidados, his pictures already are taking a sonorous aspect, reminding us of traditional singing. In 2013 the movie En présence (piedad silenciosa) conforts this very balance between visual and musical writings, as it is mainly dealing with religious recollections which can be found in the Venezuelan folklore. This project also marks the beginning of a successful collaboration with musicians Daniel and Pablo Zapico, built around many other Early musical pieces. Folk Songs (2014) and Esas lágrimas son pocas (2015) explore oral traditions when submitted to uprooting.

His projects brought him to exhibit his works in various countries such as Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Egypt, China and Argentina. On a regular basis, Nino Laisné is invited to produce new works in many different residency programs (Casa de Velásquez – Académie de France à Madrid, FRAC Franche-Comté, Park in Progress in Cyprus and Spain, Pollen in Monflanquin). Videos he directs are screened in Cinemas and festivals such as FID Marseille (FR), FIAC Paris (FR), Papay Gyro Night Festival in Hong-Kong, International Cinema Festival in Toluca and Periferias Festival in Huesca (ES).

In 2017, he creates Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando, in close collaboration with François Chaignaud, which notably performed in 2018 during the 72nd Festival d’Avignon. This same year the duo produces a short movie entitled Mourn, O Nature!, commissioned by the Grand Palais in Paris and inspired by the Werther Opera by Jules Massenet. For his next personal exhibition in October 2019 he will present L’Air des infortunés, a movie revisiting an historical sham.

Credits

Distribution :

Conception, staging and musical direction : Nino Laisné

Conception and choreography: François Chaignaud

Dance and singing : François Chaignaud

Bandoneon: Jean-Baptiste Henry

Violas de gambe : François Joubert

Theorbo and baroque guitar: Daniel Zapico

Historical and traditional percussion: Pere Olivé

Lighting design and general management: Anthony Merlaud

Stage manager : Véronique Hemberger

Sound manager : Charles-Alexandre Englebert

Dresser on tour: Cara Ben Assayag

Costume design: Carmen Anaya, Kevin Auger, Séverine Besson, María Ángel

Buesa Pueyo, Caroline Dumoutiers, Pedro García, Carmen Granell, Manuel Guzmán,

Isabel López, María Martinez, Tania Morillo Fernández, Helena Petit, Elena Santiago

Chief painter: Marie Maresca

Painter: Fanny Gaudreau

Retouching images: Remy Moulin, Marie B. Schneider

Construction: Christophe Charamond, Emanuel Coelho

Administration – production : Garance Roggero, Jeanne Lefèvre, Léa Le Pichon

Diffusion : Mandorle productions

International distribution: Apropic – Line Rousseau and Marion Gauvent

Mentions & credits :

Delegated production

Mandorle productions & Chambre 415.

François Chaignaud is an associate artist of Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy. Nino Laisné is a member of the Académie de France in Madrid – Casa de Velázquez.

Coproduction

Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy and La Bâtie – Festival de Genève within the framework of the ERDF support of the INTERREG France-Switzerland program 2014-2020, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, deSingel – Antwerp, la Maison de la musique de Nanterre, Arsenal / Cité musicale-Metz.

Support

This project has received the support of the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the Spedidam, PACT Zollverein Essen, Tandem Scène nationale Arras-Douai, the Ayuntamiento de Anguiano – La Rioja, the Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes and the Ayuntamiento de Huesca – Aragon (residency Park in Progress 12), and has benefited from a studio reception at the Teatros del canal in Madrid, at the Centre national de la danse, at the Ménagerie de verre in Paris (Studiolab) and at El Garaje in Cadíz

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