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Filmed performances

Boire les longs oublis

Year of creation
2012
Year of production
2012

Boire les longs oublis (Drink the forgotten things) is inspired by Pirate and Diverts Arnold Böcklin’s Painting : The Island of the Dead, which inspired Serge Rachmaninov’s eponymous work. The choreographic piece is built in three movements: an exhibition, developments and variations, a re-exhibition and a coda.

Three spectacular forms: oratorio, cinematographic fragments, nocturnal can be seen from the same story of Valérie Sigward. By  proposing a work around narration, a real process of transformation,  this work by Alban Richard focuses on the notions of landmark phenomena and labyrinthine constructions. The text written for Boire les longs oublis develops multiple possibilities of interpretations, for it’s a choreography of conflicts. No version is consistent and yet the disaster has already occurred…

Source: CCN de Caen en Normandie (learn more)

Choreography
Film Director
Year of creation
2012
Year of production
2012
Art direction / Design
Duration
2 hours
Lights
Valérie Sigward
Music
Laurent Perrier ; Sergueï Rachmaninov : L’Ile des morts (opus 29) ; Benjamin Britten : Simple symphony
Performance
Nicolas Chaigneau, Mélanie Cholet, Martha Moore, Alban Richard
Sound
Félix Perdreau
Text
Valérie Sigward, Fernando Pessoa, The broken window, in Poèmes anglais
Costumes
Corine Petitpierre
Other collaboration
Jewelry: Francky Berhault / Functional Analysis of the Body in Dance Movement (AFCMD) advisor: Nathalie Schulmann
Production of choreographic work
Executive production: centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie Co-production: Ensemble l’Abrupt, Le Prisme – Communauté d’Agglomération de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Festival Instances – Chalon-sur-Saône, CCN du Havre Haute-Normandie as part of the studio residency program. Studio residency at the CND in Pantin. With the support of ADAMI. Thanks to Karine Litchman, Simon Renaud, and Frédéric Birault.
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