Unfinished Fragments [transmission 2025]

A choreographic extract remodelled by the Ensemble chorégraphique Jazz’Est, coordinator Virginie Gass and Vivien Visentin, as part of the “Danse en amateur et repertoire” programme 2024/2025 (a programme created to assist and promote amateur dancing). 

Transmission by Patricia Greenwood Karagozian, choreographer.  

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

The piece when it was created

Unfinished Fragments 

Firstly produced 15 March 2012 at the Centre national de la danse  

Choreography: Patricia Greenwood Karagozian 

Piece for 5 performers: Emmanuelle Duc, Serenella Pallini, Leela Petronio, Georgey Souchette, Magali Verin and 4 musicians: Mike Karagozian (piano), Stéphane Miñana Ripoll (batterie), Cédric Ricard (saxophone), Frédéric Tronche (contrebasse)  

Musical direction and musical creation: Mike Karagozian (after Charisma : Seven Songs by Julia Locke)  

Original duration: 56 minutes

The group

Ensemble chorégraphique Jazz’Est (Strasbourg et Troyes, Grand Est) 

Nearly 40 amateur performers make up the group based in the Grand Est region of France. Some come from the Troyes Conservatory, others from Strasbourg. They range in age from 15 to 26, and are mainly jazz dancers, but have also trained in contemporary and classical dance. Their diverse backgrounds add to the richness of the troupe. With the aim of initiating creation through public performances, the group, under the direction of jazz dance teacher Virginie Gass, intends to make its choreographic research the driving force behind self-exploration. 

The project 

Patricia Greenwood Karagozian’s Unfinished Fragments is a multi-faceted work. The show, from which four excerpts have been selected, is situated at the crossroads of the arts, with a strong presence of live music. It is based on poems by American writer Charis Southwell, who died at the age of 29, whose themes of vulnerability and the passage of time move the dancers. Patricia Karagozian’s expressive gestural writing, with its swing and delicacy, also thrilled the group. Patricia Greenwood Karagozian herself collaborates with the association, passing on her work and creative process.   

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