Retrospective: 2002

Focus on the year 2002 and the productions of Hervé Robbe, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Bernardo Montet, Thierry Malandain, and Karole Armitage.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the National Choreographic Centers, 30 short films were created, using archive footage to recount the history of the CCNs, choreographers, and dance in France over the last 30 years.

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It is 2002, and choreographers are exploring every avenue and opening themselves up to the world in a documentary style.
How do you dance a garden? How do you dance outside while being inside?
Hervé Robbe and his performers blend into the landscape to better draw us into the idea of a garden.
From Grenoble, Jean-Claude Gallotta rejoices in human diversity. His duets bring together on the same stage the youthful, virtuoso bodies of professional dancers and the moving, fragile movements of bodies steeped in history.
In 2002, Bernardo Montet revisits the creation of O.More in a documentary that traces the rehearsals in Africa of his piece with Gnawa musicians.
Neoclassical ballet is not left behind in this wave of openness. We are offered a slightly risqué update. The nymphs of 1924 are given a makeover as parade-style revue leaders.
And the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine also embraced openness by inviting the so-called punk ballerina to choreograph a poem by Tennessee Williams about physical intimacy and spiritual loneliness.
The final change that year was that subsidies to companies would be paid in euros.