Le Gymnase - National Centre of Choreographic Development - Roubaix | Hauts-de-France

levée, solo + herses, duo

Boris Charmatz (Amiens, Brussel)

Une programmation de l’Espace Pasolini dans le cadre des Instants Magnétiques

  • With nudity
  • ~40mins

levée, solo + herses, duo

Programmed by l’Espace Pasolini as part of Instants Magnétiques

Logo Pasolini

Boris Charmatz drew on his repertoire to create this two-part piece: from two choreographies originally created for groups, he extracted a solo and a duet, which became two independent pieces, two dance precipitates.
In levée, solo, Marion Barbeau, a dancer who trained at the Paris Opera, reappropriates the 25 movements that made up the piece Levée des conflits. Accompanied by Amandine Beyer’s colourful violin playing, she performs her own version of this score, which was originally conceived for 24 performers as a canon of drifting gestures.
In herses, duo derived from herses (une lente introduction), the desire for fusion becomes the driving force behind a sculptural and sensual dance, a dance with naked bodies entwined in absolute contact.


Thursday 19 March: also discover SOMNOLE at the Gymnase

Cast and creatives

levée, solo adaptation of Levée des conflits
Choreography: Boris Charmatz
Performed by: Marion Barbeau
Music: violin improvisations by Amandine Beyer
Costumes: Florence Samain, Maya Valère-Gille

herses, duo excerpt from herses (une lente introduction)
Choreography: Boris Charmatz
Performed by: Boris Charmatz, Johanna-Elisa Lemke
Lighting: Yves Godin
Music: Stefan Fraunberger

General management: Fabrice Le Fur
Deputy director: Hélène Joly
Production and project development: Lucas Chardon, Martina Hochmuth, Briac Geffrault, Lola Serre

Photographs: Laurent Philippe, Ursula Kaufmann, César Vayssié

Production credits

Production, tour: Terrain