Underneath
Premiere/Performance
by
Aline Landreau
In sociopolitically and economically unstable times, when we are more and more left with the feeling as if someone is pulling the rug from under our feet, the piece created by choreographer Aline Landreau, explores both the feelings of losing ground and of finding it back, in focusing on the different notions of fundament and (under)ground. The constant interweaving between the two dancing bodies – negotiating between the vertical and the horizontal, between impetus and sagging, fight and alliance – and the vibrant soundscape, a constantly modulating network of lights and an elusive presence of falling particles, are revealing our seeking for a common and stable ground.
Concept, choreography: Aline Landreau | Performance, voice, text: Sébastien Chatellier, Aline Landreau | Music, sound design: Antoine Monzonis-Calvet | Light design: Bruno Pocheron, Emese Csornai | Set design advice: Tiago Romagnani Silveira | Dramaturgical advice: Thomas Schaupp | Costumes: Marion Montel | Vocal coaching: Ute Wassermann | Technical direction: Bruno Pocheron | Production : M.i.C.A. Movement in Contemporary Art – DE, Charlotte Giteau & Sandrine Barrasso / Météores – FR | PR : Barbara Gstaltmayr | Coproduction: Tanzfabrik - funded by Senate of Berlin for Culture and Europe, Le Pad Angers, Honolulu Nantes (FR). With the support of Région Pays de la Loire, city of Nantes, CCNN - National Choreographic Center of Nantes, Wiesen.55 Berlin and Fonds Transfabrik – the French-German fund for performing arts
Aline Landreau
In her work, choreographer, performer and sound-designer Aline Landreau intertwines textures and environments to question processes of recognition and particularly the possible forms of loss within performing art. Her different projects are questioning the conditions of a wider human perception, such as "Blur!" presented during Open Spaces festival with Tanzfabrik in 2015 and at The Nest festival in Bahrein, and the solo "Vox" created in 2016 at Tanztage, Sophiensale Berlin and showed at ImPulsTanz festival Vienna. She graduated from the Formation d'Artiste Chorégraphique and then the Essais master program at CNDC d'Angers under the direction of Emmanuelle Huynh. Aline also works as performer or assistant with choreographers such as Loïc Touzé, Emmanuelle Huynh and lately with Vincent Dupont, and co-founded in 2010 the artistic platform Météores based in Nantes, that aims to activate a supportive working community within the contemporary performing arts scene. Aline gives regularly workshops, guided by a continuous interest for somatic technics and improvisation. She currently works between Nantes and Berlin. www.alinelandreau.com