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David Wampach

Bascule
09.23.05 - 7PM
Dance — Studio du CDC

Lighting installation: Caty Olive

Sound treatment: Olivier Alary

Set design: Mathias Poisson

With : Maeva Cunci, Mathias Poisson, Virginie Thomas

 

For le Printemps de septembre 2005, the Centre de Développement Choréographique (CDC) Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées has once more been involved in a production by a young choreographic talent. Taking a piece by the American choreographer Simone Forti and the iconography of R’n’B music video clips as his starting points, David Wampach has created Bascule (‘Seesaw’), an exploration of the ways in which the relationship between men and women is represented.

 

Known primarily as a performer with Mathilde Monnier, Odile Duboc and most recently with Christian Rizzo, Wampach has nevertheless always worked at the same time on personal projects. Last May, he was invited to the Studio du CDC to produce the solo Circon c is, his third work, for which he won the Solo Mio 2004 Young Choreographer award. This year he returned to Toulouse to take up a month’s residency at the CDC. The result is Bascule, a piece for three dancers inspired by two apparently very different worlds: on one hand, Seesaw, by Simone Forti, which presents a man and a woman on the eponymous wooden seesaw in an evocative, erotic work; and on the other hand, R’n’B music video clips which play on movement between images of men and woman. Wampach shifts back and forth between these two worlds, reinterpreting the power of their codes and uniting them in a single place and time.

Production Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse Midi-Pyrénée