Biographie
Christian Rizzole syndrome ian
Christian Rizzo
Creation 2016, piece for 9 dancers
Duration: 55 minutes
Premiere — June 24th and 25th, 2016 at Montpellier Danse Festival (France)
le syndrome ian is winner of the FEDORA - Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet 2016
Date(s) à venir
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
Distribution et mentions
Choreography, stage design, costume design, light objects: Christian Rizzo | Dance: Pep Garrigues, Harris Gkekas, Kerem Gelebek, Julie Guibert, Hanna Hedman, Filipe Lourenço, Maya Masse, Antoine Roux-Briffaud, Vania Vaneau + an extra | At creation : Miguel Garcia Llorens | Light design: Caty Olive | Original music: Nicolas Devos and Pénélope Michel (Cercueil / Puce Moment) | Artistic assistant: Sophie Laly | Costume realization: Laurence Alquier | Technical direction: Bruno Capodagli | Production and touring director: Anne Fontanesi | Production and touring administrator: Anne Bautz
Production : ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier - Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo | Coproduction : 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 - Nantes, TU - Nantes, La Bâtie - Festival de Genève (Switzerland)
Loan of studios: le syndrome ian has benefited from the use of studios at the CN D, an arts centre for dance
Photographs ©National Taichung Theater
Date(s) passée(s)
Opéra de Rennes— as part of the Festival Big Love
La Passerelle, Scène nationale de Saint-Brieuc
Le Rive Gauche, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
ICI—CCN Montpellier
— as part of the season opening
Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan
le lieu unique, Scène nationale de Nantes
— as part of the festival Trajectoires, in co-production with the CCN de Nantes
TAP, Poitiers
Le Rive Gauche, Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray
Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges (Belgium)
— as part of December dance (curator : Christian Rizzo)
Tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf (Germany)
National Taichung Theater, Taichung (Taïwan)
— with the support of the Institut Français, Paris
Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal)
Singapore International Festival of Arts, Singapour (Singapour Republic)
Théâtre de Chaillot, Paris
— as part of the "hors-les-murs" program of the Théâtre de la ville
Kampnagel, Hamburg (Germany)
L'autre Scène, Vedène
— as part of the Festival Les Hivernales
Le bateau feu, Dunkerque
Le Parvis, Scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées
La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Scène nationale
Opéra de Lyon
— as part of the dance focus of the Biennale de la danse de Lyon
Château Rouge - Centre culturel, Annemasse
— as part of La Bâtie, Festival de Genève (Switzerland)
Stadsschouwburg International Theater Amsterdam, Grote Zaal, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
— as part of the Julidans Festival
Opéra Comédie, Festival Montpellier danse [premiere]