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French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane blows up 19 dancers

2020-02-27T15:18:19.393Z


'Möbius', premiere in Spain at the Central Theater, plays with collective movements through the languages ​​of dance and circus


The French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane has put himself in charge of the dance-circus company Cie XY to test his "beginning of accumulation" with a cast of 19 artists that will offer Friday at the Teatro Central de Sevilla Möbius. The piece, which is premiere in Spain and can also be seen on Saturday, plays with chaos to show how far the acrobats intuition in collective movements. Ouramdane, a regular on the stage of the Central, speaks of "poetry of the gesture" in this montage of aerial dance in which the performers are always pieces of a whole.

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The French company Cie XY, based in Lille, has invited Rachid Ouramdane to choreograph and direct his fifth show, a creator with whom they work for the first time and have many points in common. "We want to make amazing transformations, play with the effects of levitation or slow motion that refer us to fantastic moments of nature," says the Cie XY collective, fascinated by the principle of accumulation of the choreographer. Ouramdane is based on the murmurs, the communication form of starlings, which equates to the intuition of acrobats to adjust their bodies.

"I had already worked with large groups of dancers and also children, but never before had the opportunity to move to the aerial dimension. The assemblies that I have done for ballet companies stayed on the ground," explained Ouramdane This afternoon in Seville. "In this assembly the most important thing is to convey the feeling of fragility of all bodies, because if someone is not in the right place at the right time an accident occurs. So Möbius has a political dimension: you see how the community it's always there, how they help each other, "says the choreographer.

A moment of the show 'Möbius', by Rachid Ouramdane, in full nature. Cholette-Lefébure

"We contacted Rachid Ouramdane for this production because we wanted to leave the shows with a succession of numbers, we wanted to make a choreographic continuum and our style is very close to his approaches," says Belar San acrobat of the Cie XY. "The feeling of availability of one to the other that the public experiences when they leave the theater is very gratifying," adds the choreographer.

In addition to the premiere in Spain of Möbius, Rachid Ouramdane and his colleague Yoann Bourgeois, co-directors of the National Choreographic Center of Grenoble, have given a four-day workshop that ends this Wednesday and attended by 14 dancers from different Spanish cities at the Central Theater , organized by the Ministry of Culture.

Yoann Bourgeois, renowned acrobat and circus artist, also premiered in Spain at the Central Theater last week the assembly Celuis qui tombe, a proposal that aims to contravene the principles of gravity and in which artists struggle to stay in a square platform that It turns, changes speed and leans unexpectedly. The play, a synthesis of dance, theater and circus that was presented at the Lyon Dance Biennale 2014, can be seen in the Theaters of the Canal de Madrid on March 6 and 7.

Source: elparis

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