This piece forms a double bill with Aakash Odedra.
Running time: approx 1 hour (Company Decalage 30mins, Aakash Odedra 30mins).
A selection of works by West Midlands-based Mickael Riviere’s Company Decalage.
Appel
Marso developed the ideas for this piece in collaboration with Navala Chaudhari in The Place’s research programme Choreodrome, and subsequently performed it as a work-in-progress in Touch Wood. The work is a trio based on the live interaction between two dancers and a musician who plays Bansuri (flute) and tabla. The piece portrays the instinctive elements of dance and the spontaneity of music, inspired in equal parts by b-boying, Capoeira and contemporary dance.
Appel was created during Choreodrome 2007 at The Place.
Eteins Pas
A fragment of an idea that has evolved into a work in progress, this piece was inspired by the idea of life after death, with many ideas coming from reading stories about out of body experiences.
This source material was a great stimulus to challenge my existing movement vocabulary and ways of thinking while performing. The piece is partly improvised.
Mickael Riviere, Artistic Director Company Decalage
Eteins Pas was created during Choreodrome 2009 at The Place.
Breaking Point
Featuring four dancers and two musicians, this piece is inspired initially by the effect of music on people in the hip-hop culture and the b-boying scene. From the critical moment of personal stress, to the the bboy throwing down to the break in the music, breaking point is the instinctive human response to emotion, music, society, life.
Breaking Point was commissioned for The Place Prize 2008 sponsored by Bloomberg.
Eteins pas from marso riviere on Vimeo.
