“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.
Franck Micheletti, who used to dance with Josef Nadj, and is artistic director of Kubilaï Khan Investigations, has always sought new cultures for his creations. Here, he choreographes for Ethiopian dancer Junaid Jema Sendi.
Distribution
Pour tout l'or du monde :
Performed by : Olivier Dubois
Music : François Caffenne
Mondes, Monde (Worlds, World) :
Performed by : Junaid Jemal Sendi
Choreographer : Franck Micheletti
Production
Coproduction : Sacd, Festival d'Avignon