New creation 2023
The creations
Pieces on tour
The day after tomorrow
creation 2023, duration 55 mn
Duet gathering the German dancer and choreographer Heike Schuster and emmanuel Grivet, the piece involve the multiple relationships of two characters in a framework of everyday objects. Personal states, desire and momentum, past or dream encounters, complicity and indifference, create situations of proximity and distance, expectation or convergence.
The question then arise : do they meet in the same space and at the same time ? With the same intention and in the same context ? Or are they going their own path in different dimensions, crossing only memories and wishes ? And living in fact the relationship inside their own imagination ?
The day after tomorrow, a collaboration of the compagnie emmanuel Grivet with the German choreographer and dancer Heike Schuster, is a duet created in 2023 in residencies at the company's studio in Tournefeuille (France), at l'Estruch fabrica de creatió (Sabadell, Catalonia), at Art Fabrik Combailaux (France) and at E-Werk studio, Freiburg-im-Brisgau (Germany).
The piece has been presented in Pontedera at Spazio Nu in Italy on October 2023. The premiere in France took place on November 2023 at the Théâtre des Trois Ponts in Castelnaudary and the one in Germany during a series at the SÜDUFER theater in Freiburg im Bresgau in April 2024.
Production : compagnie emmanuel Grivet, with the support of LBBW Siftung (Germany), Ville de Tournefeuille (France) and Conseil Départemental de Haute Garonne (France).
Le Cube, jukebox
piece for two to five dancers and 2 actors
creation 2009 - duration 60 to 90 minutes
This piece proposes, in the space of the street, in a museum, in a park, in a particular event… to put into play by the public itself, the work of the dancers
Duo 1
creation 2013 - duration 25 minutes
Duo 1, is a man / woman duo, the story of a banal relationship, a love story no doubt, old perhaps...
Here too the questions of the common and the singular are at the heart of the matter.
Common of the staged situation, and universal of these images that speak directly to each of us...
However, the choreography, by playing on multiple moods and states, opens up to the diversity of emotions, to the ambiguity of situations, and to the singular and personal appropriation, by the spectator too, of the relationship that is played out on stage. .
Improbabilités et imposture
Improvised quartet, piece for a guest dancer and two spectators
creation 2003 and resumption of creation in 2008 - duration 20 minutes
Is the live performance the result of an approach or process? What is the work of "creating" a (dance) piece? How do we do?
Can we, should we, show manufacturing secrets, the intimacy of processes and recipes, know-how and creative paths?
Parts in the repertoire
Résonnance(s)
solo 50 minutes - creation 2016
This solo by Emmanuel echoes his first play La Trajectoire du Fou (1993-94) and revisits the themes of identity and otherness more than twenty years later by confronting us with this question. : ultimately what do we know of a being? And, what do we really know about ourselves?
Simultaneously stripped of a course and a sum of accumulated experiences, the piece offers a summary of a dance passed through the sieve of the years.
Through an imaginary biography, Résonnance(s) presents a character in transition inhabited by existential reflections. The spectator led from traces to clues and from snippets to evocations discovers the canvas of this singular trajectory.
Voici (Here is)
Improvised piece for seven performers and three sculptures
created in 1999, recreated in 2003, 2007 and in 2016
duration 45 minutes
Here is. Five dancers without preparation, without decoration, just there exposed.
They carry their intimate history, their common memory, their links. Men, women, right there, with their laughter, their movements, their flaws; they meet, avoid each other, love each other, hurt each other and confront each other. Given to see, feet in the ground and dreams in the sky.
Here is a simple, unpretentious presentation of what is their story today, five dancers, a musician, a lighting designer, faced with the unexpected, the unknown, of a moment.
Here is. Aerial beings, transparent and dense, punctuate time. Mysterious and familiar presences, creatures from another world, from elsewhere, angels perhaps. They are always there, often invisible.
See: here, all come together sometimes, naked and luminous. Flesh and earth, music, the unspeakable: simply life.
Here is. For you.
Open space (trio)
creation 2013 - duration 25 minutes
Open space (trio) is a proposal for three dancers where the light gradually reveals all the possibilities of the encounter. The dance evokes the touches of everyday life, the singularity of trajectories and unfolds there in a fluid and fluctuating common journey.
The recurrence of routes, the continual return of simple events, meeting and lingering, ignoring each other, finding each other, getting lost and starting over again, create a haunting atmosphere, a permanently mobile space in which the dancers inscribe their paths, their singular presences, and together shape the living and sensitive "world" in which they evolve.
Faces
Piece for 6 multifaceted performers
creation 2012 - duration 50 minutes
One, two, five, ten, twenty...?
How many faces for an object? For one person ?
Depending on the angle of view, the position, depending on the light, the context, so many possible looks... Do sensitivity, interest, culture also change what is looked at? Coca-Cola, Al Jazeera, Sony, the same objects, the same references, the same ways in Barcelona, Mexico or Marrakech...
In Faces, artists of various origins and backgrounds travel around the question: identity, multiplicity or unity?
Performances
In its work around improvisation as show material, the company offers performances - creations, instantaneous compositions created for specific places or particular occasions. Flexible and original forms, these encounters with the public invite you to discover dance in unforeseen spaces and moments by letting yourself be surprised at the bend of everyday life. Each performance mixes written choreographic materials and improvisations related to the place invested and the circumstance proposed.
With these forms that can bring together from one to twelve dancers and one or more musicians, the company has invested in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, a dam in the high mountains, five ports in Corsica, urban public places...
La plage
choreographic disturbance created in 2003 - duration 1:00.
Notice of force 6 or 7 dance blow
from our correspondent on site MG
The local weather observation station announces a rather violent front of choreographic Disturbances concerning the whole city. Progressing in a north-south direction, it will be accompanied by summer temperatures and a zone of high pressure, especially on the busy axes.
De bouts de corps en corps debout
Piece for forearms and necks, epidermis, elongations and tenderness
creation 2011 - duration 30 minutes
Digging into the flesh and under the skin of appearances, joining the moods, densities and secrets of standing man.
The human body in its contemporary representations is often fragmented, fragmented, rather than given to see in its organic and functional whole. Despite this, he does not allow himself to be reduced and nothing can constrain his fundamental unity: he is bipedal, centered and oriented, the place of action, of relationship and of presence in the world.
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