Bruno Benne

As a specialist in Baroque dance and music, Bruno Benne is renewing these disciplines with modernity by composing his own Baroque art. Surrounded by choreographic artists and musicians within the Beaux-Champs company, which he founded in 2013, he reveals and hybridises this heritage. His creations are conceived in close relationship with musical composition, whose forms he questions in order to augment them with his orchestral vision of the group and dancing voices. As a choreographer, he combines his research into ancient dances with the minimalism of the American choreographer Lucinda Childs. This permeability between baroque codification and conceptual abstraction gives him material to rethink his relationship with time and space. A graduate of the CNSMDP and holder of a state diploma as a dance teacher, Bruno Benne passes on and shares his knowledge of Baroque dance in numerous masterclasses and training courses.

Baroque composition
Based on the practice of Baroque dance concepts, the workshop will open onto a personal search for ways of appropriating these historical materials for creative purposes. Drawing on characteristic notions of this style, such as the rhythmic relationship of steps to musical measures and the way in which paths are inscribed in space, new dances will be composed using ornamented looping processes, alone, in duets or in groups. Bruno Benne will also be offering moments devoted to discovering the sources available to us for reconstructing this French dance technique of the 17th and 18th centuries, the recent unearthing of which constitutes a veritable source of contemporary creation.