Choreography : Fu LE

Dancers : Roxane OUAZANA, Claire CHASTAING, Lola LEFEVRE

Music : Harun BAYRAKTAR

Lights : Céline BALESTRA

Costumes : Candice BESSERVE

Masks and Puppets : Arnaud LOUSKI-PANE, Charlène DUBRETON (Mazette!)

- Creation 2019 - 65 min. / 3 dancers - 

Co-Pulation is a choreographic trio for 2 dancers and 1 human-sized puppet. The piece deals with the desire of absolute and authenticity that leads or loses each person. Our body research uses different techniques of contemporary and aerial dance as well as objects (ropes) manipulations on precise rhythms.

The dramaturgical composition is based on some writings of J-L. Borges who, through a literary search for authenticity, evoke vain artifices - mirrors, masks or copulation - to approach the idea of a reproduction identical to the reality – so many vain attempts that return the characters to their existential solitude.

We thus produce a concrete, rhythmic and mimetic dance. The choreographic composition is built from manipulations and shifting of ropes that embody this quest for authenticity, dotted with doubts, knots and frustrations. Some suspensions bring a breath and an oneiric desire of elevation to an inaccessible absolute.

"Mirrors and copulation are abominable, because they multiply the number of individuals." (Jorge Luis Borges)

2019

28-29 Nov : IVT - Mimesis / Paris (75)

23-24-25 July : MIMOS Festival / Périgueux

24 May : Ecam - Théâtre du Kremlin-Bicêtre (94)

06 June : Carreau du Temple - La Fabrique de la Danse / Paris

30 May : ACT Festivla / Bilbao (Spain)

22 March 2019 : Point Ephémère / Paris (75)

9 March 2019 : Croiseur / Lyon (69)

3 March 2019 : Le Dansoir / Ouistreham (14)

2018

19 Sep : Théâtre de l'Oulle / Avignon (84)

30 Jun : Hanover Choreography Contest (Germany)

28 May : 783 - Danse Dense / Nantes (44)

31 Mar : CDCN - La Briqueterie / Vitry (94)

2017

30 Nov : Dance Limerick (Ireland)

28 Oct : R.E.D Dance center (Norway)

ACT Festival - Best Direction (Bilbao, 2019)

Beaumarchais SACD - Choreography prize (Paris, 2018)

24 May 2019 : Ecam - Théâtre du Kremlin-Bicêtre (94)

COPULATION (Short Form) - 35 min. / 2 dancers -

2019

23-24-25 July : MIMOS Festival / Périgueux

06 June : Carreau du Temple - La Fabrique de la Danse / Paris

30 May : ACT Festival / Bilbao (Spain)

22 March 2019 : Point Ephémère / Paris (75)

9 March 2019 : Croiseur / Lyon (69)

3 March 2019 : Le Dansoir / Ouistreham (14)

2018

19 Sep : Théâtre de l'Oulle / Avignon (84)

30 Jun : Hanover Choreography Contest (Germany)

28 May : 783 - Danse Dense / Nantes (44)

31 Mar : CDCN - La Briqueterie / Vitry (94)

2017

30 Nov : Dance Limerick (Ireland)

28 Oct : R.E.D Dance center (Norway)

Choreography : Fu LE

Performers : Roxane OUAZANA, Claire CHASTAING, Lola LEFEVRE

Sound design : Harun BAYRAKTAR

Light design : Céline BALESTRA

Wardrobe : Candice BESSERVE

Puppets : Arnaud LOUSKI-PANE, Charlène DUBRETON (Mazette)

Coproductions : ECAM (Kremlin-Bicêtre), Beaumarchais-SACD

Fundings : Beaumarchais-SACD, SPEDIDAM, SACD

Residencies : R.E.D. (Norway), Dance Limerick (Ireland), Théâtre de l'Oulle (Avignon), Le Dansoir (Ouistreham), ECAM (Kremlin-Bicêtre), Château de Monthelon (Montréal), Le Silo (Méréville)

Accueils Studio : CDCN - La Briqueterie (Vitry), CND (Pantin, Lyon), Studio Lucien (Lyon), La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris)

Supports : Danse Dense (Pantin), Le Croiseur (Lyon), La Fabrique de la Danse (Paris)