Choreographer s : Charmatz, Boris France. Video producer : Centre national de la danse. Integral video available at CND de Pantin. The group Boutures has witnessed some fifteen children immerse themselves completely into works, under the watchful eye of their choreographers D. Brun, E. Huynh, G. Jobin, J. The choreographer Since the mids, Boris Charmatz has radically questioned the historical and ideological conditions of the sustainment of choreographic art, via its techniques and transmission methods.
Created in , the piece Flip Book takes a caustic look at the legacy of the great contemporary dance master, Merce Cunningham. The result is an original meta-choreography. Roman Photo is its version for amateurs. The artist Olga Dukhovnaya met Boris Charmatz when she took part in the setting up of Roman Photo , going on to become one of his regular interpreters.
She leads this transmission. From the outset, Roman Photo was imagined as a relay intended for amateurs, students, participants in workshops, based on Flip Book , the original professional piece. The principle of the latter suggests a chain transmission, which places its interpreters in the situation of strictly reproducing the pauses observed on the photos of the work Merce Cunningham — Fifty Years, and of imagining for them, very personally, an interpretative logic of sequences and transitions.
The result is a strange kinesthetics, formulating questions of rhythms, frontality and intentions. Dancer, choreographer, and director of Terrain, Boris Charmatz subjects dance to formal constraints which redraw the field of possibilities.
The stage is a notepad where to draft concentrated, organic concepts in order to observe the chemical reactions, intensities, and tensions engendered by their encounter. As an associate artist of the edition of the Avignon Theatre Festival, Boris Charmatz created enfant. That same year, Boris Charmatz opened the dance season at the National Opera in Paris with 20 Dancers for the XX Century , and invited 20 dancers from the Ballet to perform twentieth-century solo parts in public spaces at the Palais Garnier.
