Compagnie Pied en Sol draws L’Assemblée des Bourdons out of Breton popular tradition: the troménies, the danses macabres, animal figures and gargoyles. Six dancers, Mathieu Hamon’s voice and Ronan Pellen’s viole de gambe build it as a bal du monde where step, voice and rhythm are one. Brigitte Trémelot and Denis Madeleine choreographed the fifty-minute piece. The Festival Un Automne Autrement hosts it at Plumergat with Ti Douar Alré.
Tag: contemporary-dance
Fiskal: Dance and Skateboarding with C’hoari
Two skateboarders join Pauline Sonnic and Nolwenn Ferry in Fiskal, a performance by Compagnie C’hoari. Contemporary dance meets skateboarding as the choreographers explore the festive, popular character of Breton heritage. The piece looks at how these different movement cultures create a community, placing a generation of young Bretons at its centre.
Cap Danse: Dirau by Bilaka
Bilaka’s Dirau takes its title from a Basque word for what endures while transforming. The collective works from Basque dance steps and rhythms, letting walking become choreography and silence become movement. In Tourc’h, the Cap Danse program places Arthur Barat, Zibel Damestoy, Ioritz Galarraga and Oihan Indart in a piece where tradition moves through contemporary physical energy.
L’Assemblee des Bourdons
L’Assemblée des Bourdons draws from Breton culture and dance, especially traditions of Upper Brittany, to create a contemporary choreographic work. The Pied en Sol company works with breath, step and voice, supported by deep viola da gamba sound and traditional singing. Inherited dance is treated as a living vocabulary, open to new movement, sound and stage forms.