Video mapping made by Rencontres Audiovisuelles and the Visual Sciences and Cultures Research Federation as part of the Video Mapping Festival #8 and the Get-in-Past project, Baroque dance and music in the digital age.
► L’Isle des Foux
L’Isle des Foux is an 18th century contredanse, danced by 8 people, whose steps have resounded as much in the glitter of salons as on the cobblestones of popular balls, thanks to the distribution of its choreographic score. This audiovisual creation reinvents this score, its memory and outlines its future, like a dance suspended between eras.
As the images unfold, the swirls of dresses whirl in a breath of light, silhouettes fade and are reborn, carried by a capricious gravity. Bodies float, gestures stretch, creating a choreography in which time becomes blurred. Between a reinvented past and dreamlike visions, L’Isle des Foux invites you on a sensitive journey, where dance becomes a weightless dream.
As for the Maître à Danser, he keeps a watchful eye on the dance, in the form of an interactive installation in which 8 dancers in turn can try their hand at re-enacting the gestures of the past, feeling under their feet the cadences of another century. The movements are repeated, transformed and pass through time – and beneath their feet, the echoes of ancient dances are reborn.
Direction: Pablo Gracias
With the collaboration of: Guillaume Jablonka – Compagnie Divertimenty / Ludivine Panzani – IRHiS Laboratory / Thomas Yvrard – Lille Conservatoire / Pierre-Henry Bas and Ali Boulgsoa – FR SCV
Animation and interactivity: Nicolas Camarty, Pablo Gracias
Music and sound design: Géraldine Kwik ; Music inspired by L’Isle des Foux, contredanse aria by M. Landrin (1727-1793)
Video mapping tour organised by Rencontres Audiovisuelles.
With the support of the Hauts-de-France Region, DRAC Hauts-de-France, Métropole Européenne de Lille, the City of Lille and Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe.
The work by Pablo Gracias is a production made with the Visual Sciences and Cultures Research Federation as part of the Get-in-Past project, Baroque dance and music in the digital age.
With the support of the European Union (Europe is committed to the Hauts-de-France Region through the European Regional Development Fund), in collaboration with the Divertimenty company, the CNRS and the University of Lille.
With the support of La Voix du Nord.
Creations supported by the Crédit Mutuel Nord Europe.
