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The CDC Festival
International dance festival From January 21st to February 8th 2005 The history of dance has always involved a tension between the twin notions of repertory and new production. Body, speed and space are the fundamental elements of the art and are the reflection of their period. The tension produced between these different elements is what mainly determines the quality of a choreographic work. It is in the light of this definition that the invitation given to the choreographers at the CDC’s tenth anniversary festival should be understood. As living witnesses to their age, choreographers offer, each in his own manner, a reading of the contemporary world. Some of these guests are now well-known to the Toulouse public. It is our great pleasure to present Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her solo Once, a sort of condensation of her dance style mingled with memories of a complete epoch. Other Belgian artists are joining her. Wim Vandekeybus is producing one of his early pieces, The Bearers of Bad Tidings, first produced in 1989 and in which he already displays the elements which will later constitute his personal style, with notably his cascades of portés and the most unlikely figures of disequilibrium. The protagonists of Peeping Tom, heirs to the C. De B. Ballets, are coming to give us a taste of their unflagging energy in a new production by the CDC. In another CDC production, the zany Foofwa d’Imobilité and Thomas Lebrun remind us that virtuosity and humour can go hand in hand and that the dance duet can be infinitely varied. Boris Charmatz, Marco Berrettini and Christian Rizzo, all regulars at the CDC, are celebrating this anniversary with remarkable works aimed to surprise and deepen the public’s perception of dance. The Berliner Sasha Waltz invited for the first time to Toulouse, has entitled her piece simply Körper (the German for body). And indeed the bodies are there, goaded, exposed, piled up and compressed into spaces that are too cramped. Emio Greco, after years of virtuosity, has announced a change of direction towards a calmer style of dance, open to new outbursts. Heddy Maalem, having returned to Africa with the score of the Sacre du Printemps as companion evokes the modernity and immense energy of a continent that always bounces back. By contrast the same consecration as choreographed by Raimund Hoghe, is reduced to a terrible encounter. The Spaniard La Ribot studies the exceptional nature of our hand movements with a piece designed for and with amateurs recruited in Toulouse. Other artists from all over the world – The Indian Malavika Sarukkai with her ancestral yet up-dated art of bhârata natyam, the young South-African Via Katlehong dance, from the ghettos of Johannesburg – will celebrate our tenth anniversary with us for three weeks in different venues in Toulouse as part of an event which intentionally alternates pieces from the repertory with new productions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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