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Between heritage and modernitý, REYNES is a contemporary dance choreographic piece that is part of an ethnographic approach, which questions what can be reinvented́ in the use of tradition. REYNES is none other than the word "queens", syntactically found at the time in ballet librettos. Drawing inspiration from Sablais headdresses and traditional Sablais folklore, choreographer Julie Fontès-Trameçon has immersed herself in the period in the middle of the 20th century when the Sablaise woman was the emblem of a town, of the city, appearing everywhere on lithographic posters.
The piece opens with a duet embodying a double temporality: the present inscribed in the contemporary and the past recognisable by the wearing of headdresses, the uniformity of costume and the presence of certain steps from the Sablais quadrille danced at the Reines des Sables ball. The choreographer will question and revisit this temporality, in the image of some of her sources of inspiration, such as the great masters of twentieth-century painting: P. Cézanne, M. Chagall, P. Soulages or the great couturiers like Chanel or Y. St-Laurent who, far from desacralising a place or a look, have made it timeless. Following in the footsteps of the Sablais quadrille, 6 dancer-interpreters with multiple personalities, backgrounds and aesthetics will, from the top of their butterfly-winged headdresses, move respectfully and freely within customs and frameworks, blending their origins and roots. Their art is daring, pushing the envelope, thwarting codes in innovative ways. Sovereigns of their art, in a dark universe of traditional sounds and psychedelic pop rock, these 6 REYNES will bring to the stage a dismantling of boundaries around the very identity of the artist. Like bacchantes in a dance that is at once postural and increasingly organic, imbued with skin, memory and sensuality, they will parade through the passing time to form a single body that does not occupy a territory. Instead, it becomes a territory of expression and freedom, combining heritage and modernity in tune with the zeitgeist, in the joy of dancing, freeing ourselves from a body that is all about form.
Choreographer: Julie Fontès-Trameçon
Assistant choreographer: Elise Hugebaert
Outside eye for duet writing: David Llari
Playwright: Laurent Brethome
Folklore coach: Charlène Berardo
Dancer-performers (in the process of being cast) : Charlène Bérardo - Lise Dusuel - Julie Fontès-Trameçon - Florine Foucher - Manon Guilloteau - Elise Hugebaert - Fiona Legoff.
Sound arranger: Sylvain Lasco
Composer: Jean-Jacques Massabo
Music: Escapes within-Adam Taylor & Elisabeth Moss- The Handmaid's Tale (Official Vidéo) / Opera by Emmanuel Santarromana / Vivaldi: II Giustino, RV 717, act 1: Vedro con mio diletto by Jakub Jozef Orlinski / The Darkside by Les Limanas / Multiple versions of Psyché Rock by Pierre Henry.
Lighting designer: Nicolas Tallec
Costumes: Nathalie Nomary
Headdresses: Martine Pineau of "Sables Traditions
Partners: Ville des Sables d'Olonne - Les Amis du MASC - Le MASC- Le Département de la Vendée - Le Centre Chorégraphique de Strasbourg - Ballet Danse Physique Contemporaine - Sables Tradition
In charge of distribution: Perrine Touya
Numbered seating.
Duration: 1 hour.
Programmed by the town of Les Sables d'Olonne.
Bookings at Les Sables d'Olonne Tourist Offices, on the Les Sables en Poche application, and on the web:
17€, 12€/reduced (students, under-26s, jobseekers, recipients of RSA, subsidised contracts, minimum old-age pension, disabled adult allowance, Atout card holders, with proof), 2€/16 years.
13.60/full member, €9.60/reduced member.
Status - Complete
