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Christian Rizzo & Sophie Laly

Camping Workshop

19 > 23.06.23

CN D Lyon

Transdisciplinary artist Christian Rizzo is a choreographer, visual artist, stylist, and musician. He began in the nineties as a contemporary dancer, then as a playwright, creating performances and installations, interspersed with work for opera, fashion and plastic arts. Christian Rizzo is a regular instructor in art and contemporary dance schools in France and beyond. He was appointed head of the international choreographic institute in Montpellier in 2015 and draws on his diverse background to propose a cross-disciplinary vision of artistic creation, training, and education for all.

Sophie Laly, director and video artist, graduated from the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Dijon in 1998. Her video work deals with the notions of time and space-time by questioning the landscape. She produces her own video art projects (installations, documentary films, short formats...) as well as over a hundred recordings of choreographic performances. In contemporary dance, she has collaborated on the choreographic creations of Emmanuelle Huynh, Rachid Ouramdane, Richard Siegal, Latifa Laâbissi and Christian Rizzo, whom she has assisted on all of his pieces since 2008, including two that she co-designed: neo-fiction (2012) and d’après nature (2018).

Between two images

Choreographer and director of the ICI – CCN Montpellier Occitanie Christian Rizzo has teamed up with video artist Sophie Laly to offer Camping participants a choreographic creation process that echoes that of filming. With images as the source, the ensuing discussion and narration give rise to a dance. The second stage looks at the compositional issues involved in translating the dance for video.
By the end of the workshop, the collection of filmed dances will be presented to the audience, completed with instructions to follow on the dance floor during the closing night.