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Rachid Ouramdane

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Live performance

maison Folie Wazemmes
1h

Annie Hanauer and Ruben Sanchez, two exceptional performers who make the intimacy within them palpable by their dance and virtue. They invite us here on a hypnotic journey to the heart of the musicality of their bodies.

First Ruben Sanchez, world-renowned tap dancer, sets his pace with a gesture that breaks the codes of the genre. With force, the dancer takes the freedom of a language that expresses seduction, mysteries, trance and has fun with the standard repertoire of the tap dance. Then he gives way to Annie Hanauer, whose stage presence and sublime dance suspends time and invites contemplation. In a dance that leads us towards a elsewhere perhaps cosmic, Annie Hanauer, shows us the depth of beauty. Like two opposite sides of a Möbius strip, the performers end up creating a choreographic continuum. Musicality as an alchemy of the sensitive.

Biography(s)

Rachid Ouramdane has created complex pieces on the devices of representation, and given an eminent place to the danced portrait. His work is based on a meticulous collection of testimonies integrating video devices to explore the sphere of the intimate. Today he is orienting his research towards choreographic writing based on principles of accumulation, intended for large ensembles such as the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon (Tout autour, 2014). Regularly invited in France and abroad, he has notably created for the Russian company Migrazia Borscheviks and Une histoire vraie (2010), for the Candoco Dance Company in the United Kingdom Looking back (2011), for the Ballet de Lorraine Murmuration (2017), and with the XY Möbius collective (2019). At the same time, he develops a work of transmission and exchange. Rachid Ouramdane was an associate artist at Bonlieu-Scène nationale d’Annecy from 2005 to 2015 and at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris from 2010 to 2015. From 2016 to March 2021, he shared with Yoann Bourgeois the direction of CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble. From April 2021, he became director of Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse.

Credits

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Conception and choreography : Rachid Ouramdane

Interpreters : Annie Hanauer and Ruben Sanchez

Original composition: Jean-Baptiste Julien

Decors : Sylvain Giraudeau

Lighting: Stéphane Graillot

Credits and mentions :

Production : Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse.
Coproduction : CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy et Théâtre de la Ville – Paris. Le CCN2 est financé par la Drac Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes/Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, le Département de l’Isère, la Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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