Nicolas Cantillon,
Company 7273
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Thursday, February 17th | 7.30 pm | @ Theatre of the Coconut Grove School elementary
Compagnie 7273 in Miami
Listen & Watch - Romance
Thursday, February 17th
at the Theatre of the Coconut Grove School elementary , 7.30 pm
(3351 Matilda Street, Miami, FL 33133)
Listen & Watch (40 minutes) brings together on stage the dancer/choreographer Nicolas Cantillon and the American guitarist Sir Richard Bishop. The performance will be followed by a thirty-minute session after the performance where the audience members will have a chance to meet the performers.
Sales tickets in advance at the Coconut Grove School and the Alliance Francaise / PTA, Members and Students: $ 12, 5-12 years old: $10
Other / adults: $15, 5-12 years old: $12
Part of the funds will be donated to the Parents Teacher Association.
Nicolas Cantillon and Laurence Yadi / Company 7273
A strange little troupe, one that tries to figure out what it actually means to dance a dance that occurs before our eyes and takes shape as it goes along, that leaves its own obscure trace in the sands it crosses.
The French choreographers Nicolas Cantillon and Laurence Yadi split their professional lives between Switzerland and France. After performing as a singer and guitarist with the group Cryse 17, Nicolas Cantillon began training as a dancer in 1989 at the Marius Petipa Conservatory.
By the end of their respective training periods, both began numerous collaborations as performers and assistant choreographers, sometimes within the same company, most notably for the Ballet J. Art in Paris and the Geneva company Alias, where they worked with Gisela Rocha and Rui Horta.
Nicolas Cantillon and Laurence Yadi created their first piece in 2003 with La vision du lapin (Vision of the Rabbit), which was a meditation on codes of representation. With Simple Proposition, in 2004, they took up a study on the idea of the duet by breaking down their movements. The work inspired a short film called Durée determinée (“Determined Duration”) which they co-produced in 2005 with Frédéric Lombard and Jennifer Bonn.
In 2006 they created Climax, a solo piece that sketches the secret passage from joy to melancholy in a sustained blur and for which the company received the Lietchi Foundation Prize for the Arts. In 2007, they created On Stage, which was a condensed version of Climax where they explored time and rhythm.
That same year, they created Merry-go-round for the Junior Ballet of Geneva, reconfiguring the model provided by Climax and adopting it for the requirements of the Ballet.
Starting in 2007, they began working on a trilogy of pieces created to understand how folk music impacts the art of creativity. The first part of this trilogy, which is a prelude to Lai lai lai lai, In Concert, was created in 2008 as a piece for four dancers.
In 2009, they followed up the creation of Climax with Listen and Watch, working with American composer and guitarist Richard Bishop from Seattle. In September of that same year, Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon took up themes of the heart with the duo Romance-s.
Sir Richard Bishop, Guitarist
As a founding member of the Ethno-improv pioneers Sun City Girls (1981-2007), American guitarist Richard Bishop spent twenty-six years of his life perplexing, astonishing and alienating audiences. In early 2005, he toured solo, appearing across Europe, Australia and the United States.
His guitar solos have explored the musical worlds of India and the Middle East, as well as gypsy music. The influence of Django Reinhardt as well as Jimmy Page and Ravi Shankar can be detected in his work. |
