Nathalie
Collantes is dancer and choreographer. After dancing in companies with
Suzon Holzer, Christine Gérard, Daniel Dobbels and Odile Duboc, she created her
company, Fanfare Blême, in 1992 with the duo CHANT D’ENCRE. Her
collaboration with sound and plastic artists and with numerous dancers makes
her considering her works on different and various modes.
Her work with
the performers throughout the duration of a project makes possible the
construction of strong groups enriched by the diversity of their personalities.
Entirely based on the autonomy of the dancers, each project requires periods of
experimentation that she often initiates one-on-one. For her, each creation is
an occasion to draw the portrait of her partners. She makes films and is
the author of two books for children.
FONDS D'ÉCRAN (2016)
FONDS D'ÉCRAN is a performance that will take place in the reading room of National Archives. From and with the website LE PROJET ROBINSON, a dance will form in the perspective of the video images. The dialogue with Jacqueline Robinson, pioneer of modern dance in France, doubles up as a dialogue with a place, a dance and the presence of visitors.
Dance : Nathalie Collantes and Julie Salgues
Sound : Valérie Lanciaux
LE PROJET ROBINSON (The Robinson Project)
Website creation
Nathalie Collantes, Valérie Lanciaux, Julie Salgues
Website design
G.U.I (Nicolas Couturier, Julien Gargot, Bachir Soussi-Chiadmi and Benoît Verjat)
Direct link to website : leprojetrobinson.org
LA MEMOIRE COURTE (Short Memory)
PREMIERE OF "LA MEMOIRE COURTE" ON JUNE 19, 2013 AT JUNE EVENTS FESTIVAL
As she was building her dancer and choreographer career, Nathalie Collantes never stopped keeping up friendship and work relationships with her former professor Jacqueline Robinson, pioneer of Modern Dance in France and founder of the famous Atelier de la Danse.
From this relationship a series of 20 hours of filmed interviews was born in 1999, trace of 16 years of a continuous dialogue about dance. This material, unique and precious, represents the starting point of the diptych La Mémoire courte (Short Memory) and Le Projet Robinson (The Robinson Project).
The nature of these two forms is different and allows a mutual improvement.
La Mémoire Courte is a duet composed of two independent choreographic scores that plays on the idea of an indirect dialogue and the position of witness. The two female dancers take up the space in a peculiar way. They explore qualities of movement, cross states and they mix with the meaning of the words without illustrating them. The voice of Jacqueline Robinson (in the interviews) accompanies these dances. Like the video image the voice spreads other spaces out. These different materials coexist and offer several perceptive entries.
PREMIERE OF "LA MEMOIRE COURTE" ON JUNE 19, 2013 AT JUNE EVENTS FESTIVAL
As she was building her dancer and choreographer career, Nathalie Collantes never stopped keeping up friendship and work relationships with her former professor Jacqueline Robinson, pioneer of Modern Dance in France and founder of the famous Atelier de la Danse.
From this relationship a series of 20 hours of filmed interviews was born in 1999, trace of 16 years of a continuous dialogue about dance. This material, unique and precious, represents the starting point of the diptych La Mémoire courte (Short Memory) and Le Projet Robinson (The Robinson Project).
The nature of these two forms is different and allows a mutual improvement.
La Mémoire Courte is a duet composed of two independent choreographic scores that plays on the idea of an indirect dialogue and the position of witness. The two female dancers take up the space in a peculiar way. They explore qualities of movement, cross states and they mix with the meaning of the words without illustrating them. The voice of Jacqueline Robinson (in the interviews) accompanies these dances. Like the video image the voice spreads other spaces out. These different materials coexist and offer several perceptive entries.
LA MEMOIRE COURTE
Choreography
Nathalie Collantes
With
Julie Salgues and Nathalie Collantes
Images and sound design
Valérie Lanciaux and Nathalie Collantes
Light
Séverine Rième
Sound engineer
Eric Yvelin
Technical direction
Ludovic Rivière
UNE DANSEUSE DANS LA BIBLIOTHEQUE
Choreography
Nathalie Collantes
With
Julie Salgues and Nathalie Collantes
Images and sound design
Valérie Lanciaux and Nathalie Collantes
Light
Séverine Rième
Sound engineer
Eric Yvelin
Technical direction
Ludovic Rivière
UNE DANSEUSE DANS LA BIBLIOTHEQUE
(A Dancer in the Library)/one
dancer :
The company
Nathalie Collantes proposes a project for children, linked to the publication
of two books about dancing :
On danse ? by N. Collantes and J. Salgues, published by Autrement Juniors Arts (Link to On danse ? / Autrement)
J’ai dix orteils by N. Collantes and J. Cottencin, published by Lieuxcommuns (Link to J'ai 10 orteils / Lieux communs)
These two
books, each in its own way, offer an approach to the choreographic art. Further
to the writing of these books, the authors and dancers, Nathalie Collantes and
Julie Salgues, propose a choreographic appointment to their potential readers.
‘Our intention
is to go and meet, without taking the teacher’s place but by broadening the
artist’s one… Talking, introducing oneself, moving, showing the book which is
also an invitation On danse ? / ‘Shall we dance ?’ Putting the children into
play or opening out the object-book : J’ai dix orteils / ‘I have got ten
toes’, dancing around it, answering the questions and … doing it again…’
Inside the
library, between the sets of shelves, during 35 minutes, these meetings will
mingle various points of view about dance : the dancer’s but also the
choreographer’s, the reader’s, the spectator’s…
For the 8/10
year-old children, it is a chance to meet one of the authors of the presented
works. It is also an opportunity to discover a vision of choreographic art
through the presence of a dancer.
Une danseuse dans la bibliothèque (A dancer in the library) will celebrate its 10 years in 2013 !
MODE D'EMPLOI (User's guide)/4 dancers :
Une danseuse dans la bibliothèque (A dancer in the library) will celebrate its 10 years in 2013 !
MODE D'EMPLOI (User's guide)/4 dancers :
'The principle
of the instructions for use is to describe in detail the starter of a device,
the working of a structure. What would be the instructions of a choreographic piece
? A long enumeration of gestures, relationships, contexts... A detailed
description without ellipses of the articulations of the potential sense of
every sequence …
And if we
considered the instructions for use while creating dance ?
I
would like to try to take in charge these instructions for use in the dance
itself. Bringing, for example, a few studies linked to written gestures in
different variations, or considering the same interpretation in various
configurations. Full of my last three pieces, this new project will be based on
gestures, states and significant wills. What is at stake is the value of
interpretation. Like in music, it is about playing the notes only, the gestures
and their composed duration, but also interpreting them. The performers will
become sometimes kind of translators and repetition will have an important role
in these real or completely illusory translations.' Nathalie Collantes
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