Christian Rizzo, 2016
le syndrome ian is winner of the FEDORA - Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet 2016
Duration: 55 minutes
Artistic statement
« le syndrome ian – the last of three pieces investigating anonymous dance practices facing the notion of authorship – welcomes clubbing and nightlife memories.
It is neither a tribute nor a reconstruction. 1979, first time clubbing. As the planet vibrates to the sound of disco with its followers, lovers of an undulating, haunting dance, England sees the emergence of a dark, poetic dance set to the rhythm of electric, angular, jerking bodies. Halfway between isolation and community, what traces of these (possibly) contradictory bodies are left today as we still try, whatever happens, to dance among the ruins of a night that is forever lost?
le syndrome ian brings together 9 dancers as part of a collective vibration where the tempo is divided between the physicality of sub-bass sounds and the melodic wailing echoing Ian Curtis’ poetry. »
— Christian Rizzo - May, 2016
Casting and mentions
Choreography, stage design, costume design, light objects: Christian Rizzo | Dance: Miguel Garcia Llorens, Pep Garrigues, Kerem Gelebek, Julie Guibert, Hanna Hedman, Filipe Lourenco, Maya Masse, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Vania Vaneau + one extra | Light design: Caty Olive | Original music: Nicolas Devos et Pénélope Michel (Cercueil / Puce Moment) | Artistic assistant: Sophie Laly | Costume realization: Laurence Alquier| Technical direction: Thierry Cabrera | Stage manager: Marc Coudrais | Assistant stage manager: Jean-Christophe Minart
Production: ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée / Direction Christian Rizzo | Co-production: Opéra de Lille, Festival Montpellier Danse 2016, Théâtre de la Ville - Paris, National Taichung Theater (Taiwan), Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2016, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse / Midi-Pyrénées, le lieu unique - scène nationale de Nantes, TU-Nantes - scène de recherche et de création contemporaine, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève (Switzerland)
Loan of studios: le syndrome ian has benefited from the provision of the CN D studios, an Art centre dedicated to dance
Last dates
| 14 December 2018 |
La Passerelle, Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc (France) |
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| 11 December 2018 |
Le Rive Gauche, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (France) |
| 29 September 2018 |
ICI—CCN Montpellier (France) |
| 19 to 20 March 2018 |
Le Centquatre, Paris (France) |
| 17 March 2018 |
Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan (France) |
| 22 February 2018 |
Scène nationale d'Orléans (France) |
| 13 to 14 February 2018 |
Maison de la Culture de Bourges (France) |
| 27 to 28 January 2018 |
le lieu unique, Scène nationale de Nantes (France) |
| 25 January 2018 |
TAP, Poitiers (France) |
| 16 December 2017 |
Le Rive Gauche, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (France) |
| 7 December 2017 |
Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges (Belgium) |
| 25 November 2017 |
Opéra de Dijon (France) |
| 2 to 3 November 2017 |
Tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| 14 to 15 October 2017 |
National Taichung Theater, Taichung (Taiwan) |
| 15 September 2017 |
Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal) |
| 24 to 26 August 2017 |
Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapore (Republic of Singapore) |
| 26 to 28 April 2017 |
Théâtre de Chaillot, Paris (France) |
| 20 to 21 March 2017 |
Comédie de Valence - CDN Drôme-Ardèche (France) |
| 23 to 25 February 2017 |
Kampnagel, Hamburg (Germany) |
| 18 February 2017 |
L'autre Scène, Vedène |
| 3 February 2017 |
Le bateau feu, Dunkerque (France) |
| 27 to 28 January 2017 |
Opéra de Lille (France) |
| 30 September 2016 |
Le Parvis, Scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées (France) |
| 26 to 27 September 2016 |
La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Scène nationale (France) |
| 21 to 22 September 2016 |
Opéra de Lyon (France) |
| 6 September 2016 |
Château Rouge - Centre culturel, Annemasse (France) |
| 30 June to 1 July 2016 |
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam / Grote Zaal, Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
| 24 to 25 June 2016 |
Opéra Comédie, Festival Montpellier danse (France) [premiere] |
Audiodescription
Accessibility to blind and visually impaired viewers / audiodescription conducted by Valérie Castan