“The extreme specificity of any approach comes from the attempt to resist hybrid ideas born out of indiscriminate exchange and interchangeable techniques, and by affirming its value. A few years ago we had to avoid the dead-end where the ideal of purity in each art risked taking it, but today the situation has changed. Once again it is exciting to develop each artistic field from within. After having experimented with all kinds of expression in performing art and images, I do not think that mixing them is, as is often heard said, necessarily fecund.
What is important, is the meeting between artists whose research and vision are sufficiently established to be able to produce noticeable progress.
The Avignon Festival team and I put together this year's Sujet à Vif, with the idea of bringing into contact such exceptional and luminous personalities who would together find their own unique language. Electrifiying! This programme united artists whose career in dance, cinema and circus has been demanding and thorough. Beyond compare. Through my activity at the Société des
Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (Sacd) where I have to defend the rights of author-choreographers, I hope to maintain the specific professional status of author at the centre of the culture sphere, which strangely enough no longer seems to be a given.”
Karine Saporta, Administrator for Dance at the Sacd.
João Pereira dos Santos, a young Chinese pole specialist from the circus and at the forefront of the new circus movement in Portugal takes part in the experiment and has called upon Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta to work with him.
Nicole Mossoux is a choregrapher, Karine Pontiès also. They cross paths regularly at the festivals and appreciate the same plastic artists such as Michel Sowa and his, very human, animal creations...Sowa is also part of their project here, uniting them in a bitter-sweet vision of the identity crisis, under their masks and the direction of Patrick Bonté.
Distribution
Contigo :
Performed by : João Pereira dos Santos
Choreographer : Rui Horta
Nunakt :
Choreographer and performed by : Karine Pontiès, Nicole Mossoux
Production
Coproduction : Sacd, Festival d'Avignon