24 > 28.06.19
CN D Pantin
It was with the Ballet of the Opéra National de Paris that Jean-Christophe Paré started his career as a dancer-performer. Named Principal Dancer in 1984, he had as early as 1981 decided to stand up for the possibility to open new pathways of exploration in the work of interpretation at the Groupe de Recherche Chorégraphique of the Opéra de Paris. He has collaborated with many choreographers from currents as varied as modern dance (Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharps), American postmodern dance (Alwin Nikolaïs, Merce Cunningham, Andy de Groat, Lucinda Childs), young French dance (Dominique Bagouet, Régine Chopinot, Philippe Découflé, François Verret, Daniel Larrieu), German expressionist dance and, more recently, renaissance and baroque dances. These are references for him in the conception of educational projects which he conducts while directing the dance depart- ments of the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse in Marseille (2007-2011), then the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris (2014-2018).
The chant of the choreographer
Jean-Christophe Paré is proposing a way of getting around the transmission practices of the repertoire, which are generally seen as a formal restitution of danced gestures, in which style is seen as the final point of the writing process. On the contrary, he will favour recognition games of an author’s foundation gestures, as a source of production for expressive material. This workshop can be considered as a journey through bodily imaginaries, those choreographer “chants” which make for the singularity of their choreographic writings. Each day, the work will be based around a different solo by Vaslav Nijinski, Paul Taylor, Carolyn Carlson, Daniel Larrieu or Andy de Groat.
