La Ballerina

La Ballerina - 2019
Choreographic piece for 6 dancers and 1 extra
CHOREOGRAPHER
Valérie Ellert
Four sculptures come alive alternately to embody the life of an anonymous dancer. From four key moments of a fictional life, this piece reveals a story of universal life made of dreams, disillusions but also daily battles. To symbolize the choice of dance moments, the narrator is a sculptress who tells what she chose to freeze in the stone after her encounter with the Ballerina.
Going back in time, from the wound that painfully ended her career to the joy of the first dance class, to the excitement of the stage and the ambivalent feelings that surrounded her during her training, the sculptress scene a path of life danced. This journey ends with an apotheosis finale where the Ballerina meets each of her memories inhabited by the love of the movement to be reconciled with them.
Colorful and eclectic, the costumes of the dancers marry the raw world and stripped of the sequined sculpture of the stage in a series of sketches that play on the extremes that go through life.
PUBLIC
All public / family / school
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« The dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. » Martha Graham
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A passion that the company Plus qu'hier, moins que demain is keen to share with an audience of all ages...
PRODUCTION
Plus qu’hier, moins que demain Company
DANCERS
Florine Metifiot - Margot Joggerst - Angelika Schmid - Lili Gérold - Sophie Fillion - Tamara Ellert
LIGHTING DESIGN
Jérome
COSTUME DESIGNER
Tamara Ellert
CO-WRITER
Florine Metifiot
PHOTOGRAPHS
Emmanuel Viverge
DURATION
20 min
SUPPORT
City of Haguenau
Association Art Passion
MUSIC
The injury : On the nature of daylight - Max Richter
Duality : Elite hacker - Adam Peters / Afterlife - Ivan Torrent / They will break you - Production Music
The magic of the scene : Nexus - Dr. Kucho!
Childhood : Hit the road Jack - Throttle
The exhibition : Classic city - Dapf & Kothara
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