Comment se ment

Recorded at the CND 15 October 2010

First performed 2007

Choreography Fabrice Ramalingom

« Successively performer, choreographer and artistic director of the Carnets Bagouet for the rerun of “Meublé sommairement”, Fabrice Ramalingom delights in directing others and himself, by increasing the points of view on a same object : his first solo, entitled “Comment se ment” focuses on himself, where he proposes “a quantity of versions, of angles of his personality”, including auto-fictions, which send out to the spectators the fragmented image of “the polyphony that we actually are”. Each of these facets represents a new departure for him, a “rebirth”, or an invention of this future that we do, however, know how to build without questioning the past. Taking steps backward into his rich experience as a dancer with Dominique Bagouet, Trisha Brown, Benoît Lachambre and Hervé Robbe, then as a creator for the La Camionetta Company […], nourish Fabrice Ramalingom’s reflexion on the very principles of his choreographic writing, which is presented here as a real appraisal of the works and the styles that he has initiated for over twenty years. On Bach’s Prelude No. 13 – covered by DJ Chloé in her score – that he sings as if he was a simple beginner, with one voice after another, he reviews the dances that marked him […]. From behind the worrying mask of himself that he wears at the beginning of the piece, other faces of this choreographer emerge, other steps of his dance, that he blindly reveals to those who know how to perceive him. »

Cécile Schenck, Montpellier Danse Festival programme

Credits

chorégraphie et interprétation Fabrice RAMALINGOM scénographie Emmanuelle DEBEUSSCHER musique CHLOÉ (KILL THE DJ) lumières Maryse GAUTIER vidéo Laurent ROJOL assistant Vincent DRUGUET régie Yannick LE GOÏC régie son et vidéo Christophe GOUTESa film by Centre national de la danserunning time 45 minutes

More information

Company websiteA resource on Numeridanse.tv about a lecture demonstration with Fabrice Ramalingom

Last update : September 2011