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Impressions, nouvel accrochage

“Tout-terrain” collection

© Alban Van Wassenhove
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  • © Alban Van Wassenhove
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  • © Alban Van Wassenhove
  • © Alban Van Wassenhove
Impressions, nouvel accrochage

The power of images

Plunging into paint­ing to cre­ate dance… The cho­reo­graph­er Her­man Diephu­is, an expert in embody­ing images, which he draws from sources ran­ging from ancient paint­ing to pho­to­graphy, likes to cre­ate stor­ies by anim­at­ing bod­ies with an ever so del­ic­ate grace. This duet immerses the audi­ence in the mul­tiple pos­sib­il­it­ies that exist in a rela­tion­ship between two people. We wit­ness a couple under­go­ing mag­ni­fi­cent trans­form­a­tions, the beauty of their encounter so mas­ter­fully expressed by the per­formers through dif­fer­ences and complicity.

Just as Impres­sion­ist paint­ing broke away from the clas­sic­al rules of the Beaux-Arts, the two char­ac­ters start from an aca­dem­ic exist­ence to grav­it­ate, in small touches, towards more every­day real­it­ies. In the pro­cess, oth­er facets of the bond that unites them are revealed, along with oth­er pos­sib­il­it­ies for listen­ing to the oth­er and oth­er ener­gies. A jour­ney from the nine­teenth cen­tury to the present day, in which the clas­sic­al dance evolves into krump, and where even Debussy becomes electro!

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Cast

Design, cho­reo­graphy
Her­man Diephuis

In col­lab­or­a­tion with
Mar­vin Clech, Mélanie Gif­fard and Yves Mwamba

Per­formed by
Mélanie Gif­fard, Yves Mwamba

Light­ing design
Cléo Konongo

Sound design
Pierre Boscheron

Stage man­ager
Nic­olas Bordes

Tour stage man­ager (altern­at­ing)
Florent Beau­ruelle, Nic­olas Bordes, Jérôme Houles ou Valen­tin Pasquet

Dir­ect­or of production
Sébas­tien Kempf

Tour­ing
Math­ieu Hillér­eau – Les Indépendances

Dur­a­tion
35 minutes

Exec­ut­ive pro­duc­tion OASES
Pro­duc­tion Centre Choré­graph­ique Nation­al de Caen en Normandie
A cop­ro­duc­tion by Asso­ci­ation ONNO, Chorège / Fal­aise, Com­mun­auté d’Agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel Normandie
This pro­duc­tion bene­fit­ted from the Con­seil départe­ment­al de la Manche’s “Artist res­id­ences in insti­tu­tions of artist­ic edu­ca­tion” scheme

Professional contacts

Bur­eau Les Indépend­ances, Math­ieu Hilléreau
mathieu@lesindependances.com
+33 (0)1 43 38 23 71 // +33 (0)6 80 50 40 21

History

July 2019

  • 11
    Public Rehearsal — Espace danse, Falaise 6:30 pm

November 2019

January 2020

July 2020

  • 12
    La Parenthèse, Avignon, La belle scène saint-denis [Annulé] 12:00 am
  • 13
    La Parenthèse, Avignon, La belle scène saint-denis [Annulé] 12:00 am
  • 14
    La Parenthèse, Avignon, La belle scène saint-denis [Annulé] 12:00 am
  • 15
    La Parenthèse, Avignon, La belle scène saint-denis [Annulé] 12:00 am
  • 16
    La Parenthèse, Avignon, La belle scène saint-denis [Annulé] 12:00 am
  • 26

August 2020

  • 01
    Festival Lieux Mouvants [Reporté] 12:00 am

January 2021

March 2021

April 2021

May 2021

June 2021

  • 22
    Place Charles de Gaulle, Villers-Bocage [Report du 20.01.21] 6:00 pm
  • 24
    Place Camille Blaizot, Merville-Franceville [Report du 19.01.21] 6:00 pm
  • 25
    Parc du Château de Thury-Harcourt, Le Hom [Report du 09.04.21] 6:00 pm
  • 26
    Cour de la Maison des Associations rue de la Cabottière, Evrecy [Report du 10.04.21] 6:00 pm
  • 29
    devant la Salle des Fêtes, Saint-Germain-du-Crioult [Report du 27.01.21] 6:00 pm

July 2021

October 2021

April 2022

  • 09
    Théâtre Louis Aragon, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national Art et création danse de Tremblay-en-France [Annulé] 7:00 pm

May 2022

  • 14
    La Source, La Guéroulde [Annulé] 3:00 pm

June 2022

  • 05
    Château‑d’Auvers, Rendez-vous au Jardin [Annulé] 4:00 pm

January 2023

February 2023

March 2023

May 2023

  • 13
    La Source, La Guéroulde [REPORT] 3:00 pm

May 2024

Press

  • Toute la culture le 10/07/2021

    “[…] Mélanie Gif­fard and Yves Mwamba per­form Her­man Diephu­is’ Impres­sions, nou­vel accrochage. Back­ing onto the stage wear­ing grey T‑shirts and navy trousers, they dance as if they were stretch­ing after a night in the coun­try. At the start of the piece, their move­ments are accom­pan­ied by the Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. The bod­ies melt, the arms work in uni­son. Then, when they meet, it’s true love! They whis­per sweet noth­ings in each other’s ears, inter­twine, accel­er­ate… Until they leave the coun­tryside for the city, break­ing into a vibrant urb­an duet that car­ries us away!”

  • L’oeil d’Olivier le 13/07/2021

    “[…] To a piece by Debussy, cho­reo­graph­er Her­man Diephu­is ima­gines a dance of impres­sion. He uses the bod­ies of his dan­cers as brushes or pens. Over the course of the melody, he sketches out a love story, from first encounter to uni­on, through pas­sion and heart­break. His gram­mar is pre­cise, his vocab­u­lary stud­ied, refined and aca­dem­ic. Car­ried by the feel­ings and the desire of his two dan­cers (Mélanie Gif­fard­and and Yves Mwamba), by their dis­agree­ment, the writ­ing becomes more lively, less stat­ic, the music accel­er­ates. The highly clas­sic­al move­ments shift towards street dance, Debussy melds into elec­tro. Bod­ies become breath­less, embrace each oth­er, only to sep­ar­ate again. A beau­ti­ful and fleet­ing moment, a lovely con­tem­por­ary romance with its highs and lows.”

  • Le bruit du off le 12/07/2021

    “[…] The sys­tem of this shared stage gives way to a duet cho­reo­graphed by Her­man Diephu­is: Impres­sions, nou­vel accrochage per­formed by Mélanie Gif­fard and Yves Mwamba, both of whom sur­prise with the qual­ity of their dan­cing and their pres­ence… This piece is par­tic­u­larly well con­struc­ted and takes us down paths that we return from with ease through a gentle form under­scored by the music of L’après-midi d’un Faune. A relaxed move­ment, one of pure ges­ture, free of rough edges, which then gives way to a power­ful and com­mit­ted dance fea­tur­ing Yves Mwamba’s krump, which cap­tures our atten­tion and soli­cits our empathy… and yet noth­ing is forced, everything comes from the power and the attent­ive­ness of the two dan­cers… A peace­ful faun in the tor­por of Avign­on… a moment worth enjoy­ing… A short and strong piece.”