Tenir le temps [transmission 2025]

A choreographic extract remodelled by the Group Accords perdus, coordinator Barbara Chapot, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme 2024/2025 (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing).

Transmission by Mayalen Otondo, performer of the work when it was created and artistic assistant of the choreographer.

Presented on 14 June 2025, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand.

The piece when it was created

Tenir le temps

Firstly produced 1st July 2015 at the Théâtre de l’Agora in Montpellier

Choreography: Rachid Ouramdane

Work for 16 performers: Fernando Carrion, Jacquelyn Elder, Annie Hanauer, Alexis Jestin, Lora Juodkaite, Arina Lannoo, Sébastien Ledig, Lucille Mansas, Yu Otagaki, Mayalen Otondo, Saïef Remmide, Alexandra Rogovska, Ruben Sanchez, Sandra Savin, Leandro Villavicencio, Aure Wachter

Original Music: Jean-Baptiste Julien

Original duration: 55 minutes

The group

Accords perdus (Paris, Île-de-France)

The Paris-based association, founded in 2008, is headed up for this project by Barbara Chapot, a psychomotrician. With 11 dancers, most of them psychomotricians, trained in contemporary dance, but some also in African dance, the troupe is passionate about issues of weight, flow, ritual… It meets regularly to explore these themes, at the crossroads of dance and psychomotricity, in artistic laboratories. This is the fourth time the association has been selected for the Danse en amateur et répertoire program. After having confronted pieces by Catherine Diverrès and Christian Rizzo, a new challenge awaits them with Rachid Ouramdane.

The project

Accords perdus wanted to slip into Tenir le temps by Rachid Ouramdane. This piece, created in 2015, won over the dancers because of its search between the individual and the collective at the heart of the choreographer’s and the group’s concerns. At the heart of the piece is the way in which each individual is caught up in a phenomenon that transcends him or her and generates an overall movement that is sometimes uncontrollable. Another key factor in Ouramdane’s choice was the responsibility of each individual in the eyes of all, which the participants are regularly confronted with in their professional practice.

Danse en amateur et répertoire is a program of financial support and coaching for groups of amateur dancers. It provides a space for those wishing to deepen their knowledge and practice of dance and its history. 

Laurent Barré
Head of Research and Choreographic Directories
Anne-Christine Waibel
Research Assistant and Choreographic Directories
+33 (0)1 41 83 43 96
danse-amateur-repertoire@cnd.fr 

More information: https://www.cnd.fr/en/page/323-danse-en-amateur-et-repertoire-grant-programme