Andy Emler's Jazz Megaoctet & Bernardo Montet performance!

Photo by : Dimitri Tsiapkinis


Andy Emler's Jazz Megaoctet with Bernardo Montet and his dancer's perform in Thélème auditorium in Tours / France on Saturday 13th of November 2010.

Crouch, touch, Engage is a composition by Andy Emler and it will be performed by 9 musicians and 4 dancers.

Musicians : Andy Emler (piano, compositions, direction), Laurent Blondiau (bugle, trompette), Laurent Dehors (saxophone ténor, clarinette basse), Thomas de Pourquery (saxophones soprano et alto, voix), Philippe Sellam (saxophone alto), François Thuillier (tuba), Claude Tchamitchian (contrebasse), Eric Echampard (batterie), François Verly (marimba, percussions)

Dancers : Tal Beit Halachmi, Dimitri Tsiapkinis, Bernardo Montet, Marc Veh

Produced by the CCNT, Jazz à Tours, the Petit Faucheux, the François-Rabelais University and the Royaumont Foundation.

Info : http://www.ccntours.com

New dance season at the CCNT

Tomorrow saturday we present at the CCNT the new danse season. There will be also the projection of the dance film "Promenades sur Loire", of our happening with Bernardo Montet in 2007, at the Loire river.

Info : ccntours.com

2009-09-26_Street performance in Antananarivo

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2009-09-26_Street performance in Antananarivo, originally uploaded by speedykoala. How to dance when there are thousands of street kids around?
The opening of the festival i Trôtra (pronounce the "r" the american way) is on september the 30th. I worked with young, non professional, dancers this time and it was a moving experience. Bernardo Montet worked with the professional dancers. In one of the poorest countries in the world with high corruption I have the chance to realize once more, how deeply existential dance is. The urgency to create newtopias, even ephemeral, and live them through embodiment is a state of "freedom" and a source of inspiration; inspiration to live through regimes like the one in Madagascar and have visions of a "better" world...
Freedom in greek : ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ, means openness to that which will come; openness to the unknown...
In the picture you see dancers with street kids...For more pics go here : Flickr-Madagascar

Dance in Chile

Third and last day of the workshops taught by Bernardo Montet and Dimitri Tsiapkinis in the University of Santiago / School of the Arts.
Sharing experience, mouvement and dance theories.
We also participated in a conference about Bernardo's approach to dance with video excerpts, and also about the role of National choréographic centers in France.
We conluded the conference with a dance improvisation between me and the Chilian musician Pajaro.
We were assisted by Andrea Muñoz who also captured the image of this note.
I will stay for one more week to visit Santiago, Valparaiso and Serena.
May the space be with you! :-)

Para aquellos interesados aquí es una bibliografía :
* Ken Wilber : Breve historia de todas las cosas. Barcelona. Kairós. w4.
* Le mouvement dans tous ses états. Eve Berger, 1998. Editions Point d’Appui (Français)
* el sitio web de la Danis Bois Método (Inglès, Français et portugués) : http://www.cerap.org/
* un text de James Hillman en espagnol : http://homepage.mac.com/eeskenazi/azur.html
* James Hillman : SpD94a La Cultura y el Alma Animal. Trans. Maria J. Bustamante. Caracas: Fundacion Polar. Engl. D97d.

(Para más propuestas, me contacto a través de este blog después 5 enero 2009 :-)

Liste of urgent actions!

Dear friends, I know most of us suffer from info pollution and some even from Cognitive Overflow Syndrome (info here).
I have read about info saturation before but I heard about this term (C.O.S.) in the very impressing performance of Thomas Ferrand in our festival "Danse d'éxistence, Danse de Résistance"...
So while our festival is still going and I'm dancing tonight Apertae by Bernardo Montet, I urge you to participate in the following actions, without having to go to many places :
1. http://www.timetolead.eu/
2. Ask Obama!

And some good news : marine conservation in Hong Kong

Photo (CC) by kelvin255

Sharing dance in Madagascar

My first week in Antananarivo in Madagscar is full of creativity and emotion...
I'm teaching young dancers from the island and a few from the African continent and it's a very warm hearted group. We dive into body consciousness together and then, progressively, into high energy mouvement behaviour...There follows an improvisation course and they make me dream away!
The workshop was organized by the Cultural Center Albert Camus and the CCNT.
Bernardo Montet will join me to finish the workshop together but also to dance his solo "Batracien, l'après-midi"!
Of course there are also "negative" emotions when seeing the poverty in the city...Apparently there are 25000 homeless here... :-(
How much energy and food do we spend, and on what?
Living conscioussly becomes more & more urgent, but I also keep receiving good news!
The world is changing! Keep creating your utopias!