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Hélène Iratchet

En privé à Babylone
09.24.04 - 10.17.04
Spectacle — Studio du CDC

Hélène Iratchet, En privé à Babylone, 2004

CDC (Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées)

Le printemps de Septembre / Les Soirées Nomades

© Photo : David Brunner

Hélène Iratchet, En privé à Babylone, 2004

CDC (Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées)

Le printemps de Septembre / Les Soirées Nomades

© Photo : David Brunner

Hélène Iratchet, En privé à Babylone, 2004

CDC (Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées)

Le printemps de Septembre / Les Soirées Nomades

© Photo : David Brunner

Based on Richard Brautigan's novel Un privé à Babylone, the Toulousian dancer Hélène Iratchet constructs a performance that relies on the interplay of images and music created and reproduced live. In the novel, the narrator, a private detective, failed sportsman and poor seducer, struggles with his sickly penchant for fantasising about his life in Babylon. Excluding any reference to real life, the dancer and director creates from this narrative material a space of pure musical fantasy, danced and staged, where a sometimes anarchic succession of dreamlike scenes are played out.

 

Born in 1977, an athlete by training, Hélène Iratchet began dancing at the Toulouse Conservatory in 1996. In 1998, she took classes in New York with Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown, then at the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique. She then worked with the DACM company for three years, then as a performer with the director Thierry Bédard. En privé à Babylone is her third piece as a choreographer.

Production: Centre de Développement Chorégraphique Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées.