EXPERIMENTAL DANCE § MUSIC § PERFORMING ARTS. Avatar - image above by Xavier Leroy.
Des personnes issues de multiples horizons (danse, performance, musique contemporaine...) toutes profondément nourries par l'énergie du ROCK, qui témoignent en actes de leurs affinités électriques / électroniques, au point d'en faire l'un des moteurs de leur démarche artistique.
Find mindful interactions between rock and artistic creation, bringing together personalities from a variety of horizons (dance, performance, contemporary music...following the idea of WE WAN'T ROCK N'ROLL parisian festival). All people finding their endeavour in the energy from rock to electronic to the point of making it one of the driving forces of their best artistic enacts.
LA LETTRE de Renan LUCE
" AVRIL POWER "
Nosfell + EZ3kiel (Fr) - Lethal Submission (2005).
" I want no part in your revolution if we can not dance." Emma Goldman.
Amelia by Ed.Lock Lalala Human Steps,string quartet tribute to Lou Reed.
The TROCKS ( Drag ballet NYC, US ) The Dying Swan - CAN'T RESIST.
The Cost Of Living-Trailer by DV8 Physical Theatre, Lloyd Newson.
LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS, Shortcuts by Ed. Lock, Canada, Infante c'est destroy, music Einsturzende N. - Dancer Louise Lecavalier,1990 STILL MESMERIZING !
SEBASTIAN GARCIA FERRO CHOREOGRAPHER, BARCELONA,SPAIN,work 1999-2006.
KOERPER + NO-BODY extracts by SASHA WALTZ, BERLIN, DE.
A Simple walkover and clapping music in loops - the very close focus on the individuals, their hands, faces into spirals obsessions - Sounds of breathing and shoes scraping, keeping the daily or unbalanced movements, the camera motion from the inside hall to the roof of the factory ... 1997 All the team is there - Rosas Danst Rosas - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker § Thierry De Mey (Be). Who am I ?
I can watch that film, 100 loops more !
PAST § CURRENT : The Smith, Radiohead, NIN, Siousxie § the creatures, PJ Harvey, Fugazi, Staind (Aaron Lewis's voice), Einsturzende Neubauten, Eiffel, Blur § Damon Albarn (Think Tank - The Good, The Bad And The Queen), Alain Bashung (L'imprudence), Theo Hakola, Dominique A, Olivier Mellano, Fabrice Planquette, Nosfell, Arno ... Steve Reich, Gavin Bryars, Bartok, Kodaly - Iva Bittova (cz rep).
LAST ROCK DISCOVERING:
LA LETTRE : RENAN LUCE ! happy folk !
CURRENT TH-DA PERFORMERS:
Wayn Traub (Be) - Maguy Marin - Nasser Martin Gousset (Fr) - Mustapha Kaplan (Tur)- Stuart Lynch (Dan) - Finita la Commedia (Hu) - Cuqui § Maria Jerez (Spain)...Barbara Mavro Thalassitis (Fr-Be).
Ken Loach - Hal Hartley - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel, 21 grams) - Crossing the Bridge, the Sound of Istanbul (Fatih AKin) - Ferzan Ozpetek (La finestra di fronte)-Jonathan Dayton (Little miss sunshine)- Kim KiDuk (3 Iron)- And of course Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry).
VIDEO FAN as Edouard Lock - Dogme films - Bill Viola ...
No more TV : "Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down“ Lewis Caroll in Alice W.
Guy Debord, Michel Onfray, Daniel Arasse, Charles Juliet, Primo Levi, J.L Borges, Paul Auster, Lucia Etxebarria, Marie Deplechin, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, W.Blake.
CURRENT BOOK:
Yves Klein - performer of the void, judo instructor and painter of colourfull spaces ...
Thierry de Duve ("l'art etait un nom propre") - Luk Van den Dries (Jan Fabre "Corpus")...
ACTIVIST ARTISTS !
+ MYANMAR MONKS BIRMANY
+ IN LOVING MEMORY :
Dolores Ibarruri LA PASIONARIA first lady involved in the spanish civil war.
M. ROSTROPOVICH russian cellist, great teacher.
Something else than an old-fashioned classical ballet !!!
In the 70’s, M.B. brought the dance into a step of simplicity. Explaining the reason of each body impulse ( how as a sick boy, he became a great fighter dancer). His school "Mudra" in Brussels (Mudra: gesture in buddhist art / Maguy Marin, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker went there ) was the first high level international and MODERN free school ... In loving memory of his eyes contact .