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Le Bal

Le Bal

A sarabande by Rameau, a waltz by Strauss, Waldteufel or Suppé: some timeless music captivate with their irresistible call to dance. Transcending the material world, they are part of the collective imagination and a universal musical repertoire.

In this project, we continue to explore the constantly reinvented relationships between music and dance, sound and gesture, the auditory and the visual. With our six performers, we have borrowed a repertoire of classical music - of absolute beauty - questioning its meanings and symbolism, and the gestural reactions their sounds generate today.

To do this, we called on the memory of gesture, on the historical dance forms that bring men and women together, dancing in a circle, side by side, with their backs to the world, to form a body together. In this collective expression, the group comes together, sharing an instinctive or elaborate movement, repetitive and obsessive, leading it from pleasure to ecstasy.

And then the three-beat rhythm imposed itself in the process, and in the piece, evoking a similar musical memory, while inspiring electronic compositions - also in ternary rhythm - to connect these timeless musics. And finally, it suggested a reinterpretation of the waltz, a dance in constant oscillation between order and disorder, technique and anarchy, practiced in popular balls long before the bourgeoisie appropriated it for its parties and debutante balls.

After having explored electronic and traditional music in our last productions, we’re pursuing our choreographic project with Le Bal, turning to other, more classical and popular musical forms to nourish the flow of movement, in a resolutely contemporary corporality.

Marco Cantalupo et Katarzyna Gdaniec

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Le Bal
Le Bal

credits

Idea and choreography : Katarzyna Gdaniec & Marco Cantalupo

With the collaboration of the performers : Aude-Marie Bouchard, Enzo Blond, Bonni Bogya, András Engelmann, Csaba Varga, Cindy Villemin

Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Strauss II, Émile Waldteufel, Franz Von Suppé

Additional compositions : Mathias Delplanque

Music consultant : Francesco Biamonte

Lighting : German Schwab

A co-production l'Octogone, Théâtre de Pully, Centre de Arts Ecolint Genève, Compagnie Linga

biographies

Csaba Varga
Csaba Varga

Csaba Varga (Hungary) studied at the Experimental Dance Academy Dance of Salzburg (AT) and at the Contemporary Dance School of Budapest (HU). He worked for Kubilai Kahn Investigations (FR), Kaori Ito from Les Ballets C de la B (BE), Anton Lachky Company and GN/MC (Guy Nader and Maria Campos), before joining Compagnie Linga for Line up. In parallel, Csaba is currently working with HODWORKS (HU).

Aude-Marie Bouchard
Aude-Marie Bouchard

Aude-Marie Bouchard (France) graduated from the CRR of Boulogne-Brillancourt and continued her training by joining the Junior Company Le Marchepied. After having been an intern at the Linga Company and having followed the Bachelor's degree in contemporary dance at the Manufacture (Lausanne), she joined the company for the production Flow. At the same time, she collaborates in various in situ projects, notably for the company San.TooR in Performances at the Montreux Art Gallery, for the improvisation festival at the Grange de Dorigny Theater, or in the space of the Vanves train station as part of the Grand Paris Express project won by the Crème fraiche collective and Beatandbeer.

Enzo Blond
Enzo Blond

Enzo Blond (France) trained in contemporary dance at the CNSMD of Lyon. He was part of the Jeune Ballet du CNSMD de Lyon before working with the Franco-Luxembourg company Eddi Van Tsui, the Samuel Mathieu company and the choreographers Eva Aubigny and Noé Soulier. He joined the Linga company in 2023.

Bonni Bogya
Bonni Bogya

Bonni Bogya (Transylvania) studied at The Place London School of Contemporary Dance, gaining a BA (Hons) and MA in Contemporary Dance. She worked with Scottish Dance Theatre and various dancers in the UK, before joining Linga in 2023.

Lia Ujčič
Lia Ujčič

Lia Ujčič (Slovenia) completed her studies at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (BA (Hons) and MA). Artistically she collaborated with Laura Witzleben, Tanz Company Gervasi, Mark Bruce Company and on film in Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke and Damien Jalet's ANIMA. She joined our company in 2023.

András Engelmann
András Engelmann

András Engelman (Hungary) started dancing at the age of eight in Madách Artistic School, and then finished his studies in the Hungarian Dance Academy, contemporary department in 2022. During his academy years he already had the opportunity to work as a freelance dancer in Hungary. From 2021 he is member of the Willany Leó Improvisational Dance Theatre and joined Compagnie Linga in 2023. Beside that he has his own musical group project, under the name of Éghasadás.

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