An overview of contemporary dance
Ever since the Lille Opera's reopening in December 2003, dance has played a major role here: Each season, the program reflects today's big esthetic trends, with major stagings by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sasha Waltz, Jiří Kylián, Trisha Brown, Maguy Marin, Merce Cunningham, and William Forsythe. The Lille Opera also supports creativity through its artistic residencies, thereby putting into practice the institution's aspiration to work harder at establishing a close lin
Christian Rizzo
In residence at the Lille Opera from 2007 through 2012, choreographer and visual artist Christian Rizzo focuses on creating tension between bodies and the scenographic spaces in which they perform. His works have an unexpected visual power, revealing poetic and fictional landscapes.
Mon Amour, 2008
Like a kind of mechanical ballet, Mon Amour is an encounter between seven dancers—wearing costumes that are half sportswear and half Victorian—and seven spheres which are digitally guided across the stage. Three musicians—Gérôme Nox, Bruno Chevillon, and Didier Ambact—and a singer complete this moving tableau, designed as an artificial, cosmic architecture.
Mon amour, Rizzo (2008-02/2008-03) by Christian RizzoOpéra de Lille
Mon amour, Rizzo (2008-02/2008-03) by Christian RizzoOpéra de Lille
L'oubli, Toucher du Bois, 2010
With L’oubli, Toucher du Bois, Christian Rizzo questions the presence of bodies in an enclosed space, the walls of which are formed of raw materials and act as surfaces for light and sound to echo off. He entrusted the musical composition to Sylvain Chauveau, whose piano is combined with discrete electronic touches.
L'oubli, toucher du bois., Rizzo (2010-02) by Christian RizzoOpéra de Lille
L'oubli, toucher du bois., Rizzo (2010-02) by Christian RizzoOpéra de Lille
Le bénéfice du doute., Rizzo (2012-01) by Christian RizzoOpéra de Lille
Le bénéfice du doute., Rizzo (2012-01) by Christian RizzoOpéra de Lille
Daniel Linehan
Choreographer in residence from 2013 through 2015, Daniel Linehan seeks to softly blur the boundaries separating dance from everything else. He approaches creativity from the perspective of a curious amateur, testing out the many interactions between dance and forms of non-dance, seeking out unlikely convergences, juxtapositions, and parallels between texts, movements, images, songs, videos, and rhythms.
The Karaoke Dialogs
In The Karaoke Dialogs, Daniel Linehan applies the principles of karaoke to great classics of literature and philosophy. Each dancer moves back and forth, split between their individual approach to the textual scores and the group dynamics of collective choreography.
The Karaoke Dialogues, Linehan (2014-05) by Daniel LinehanOpéra de Lille
The Karaoke Dialogues, Linehan (2014-05) by Daniel LinehanOpéra de Lille
dbddbb, 2015
dbddbb features five dancers moving at the same pace, each in relation to the others, and reciting sound poems in rhythm. Here, Daniel Linehan is interested in the rhythm of their steps and slogans, which are replaced by Dadaist poems, to create a form of choreography in perpetual progress, "a polyrhythmic sound landscape produced live on stage."
dbddbb, Daniel Linehan (2015-11) by Daniel LinehanOpéra de Lille
dbddbb, Daniel Linehan (2015-11) by Daniel LinehanOpéra de Lille
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