Visual arts
Live music

Donne-moi quelque chose qui ne meurt pas

Awards and winners

Press

"The image is strong and it's hard to forget on the way out that living is a way of dancing".

Henri Guette - Theatrorama

"An impressive and ingenious scenic device made up of a hundred long knives that offers the audience some beautiful moments of dance with a striking aesthetic."

Delphine Baffour - Dancing with the feather

"A piece that stirs joy and anxiety in the power of gesture".

Marie Juliette Verga - Toute la culture

"Donne moi... is indeed the praise or manifesto of movement, that which moves forward and drains energy and strength, invading body and mind with respect for the other: both the "active" spectator and the performer revealing themselves and their own convictions".

Geneviève Charras - L'amuse-Danse

A luminous piece in which the scenic space wavers under the multiplicity of luminous flashes, raising the opposite of an affirmation of identity: emptiness, suspension. A hundred long, shimmering blades, evoking the threat hanging over our heads, point at the performers' bodies and escape throughout the work, freeing the space in a kaleidoscopic shimmer. Donne-moi quelque chose qui ne meurt pas (Give me something that doesn't die), an intriguing title and a quest for the impossible, suspends the gestures of the five dancers in unison. Between military marches, recumbent rave parties and hijacked popular farandole, the group seeks to extricate itself from gravity, to open up a space where dance can rediscover its crystalline movement, its embodied gestures, its vocation for emancipation and its jubilation. The live music conjures up a universe that oscillates between popular memory and the artistic avant-garde, giving this dance of struggle and resistance to the world around us all its jubilant power.

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Awards and winners

Press

"The image is strong and it's hard to forget on the way out that living is a way of dancing".

Henri Guette - Theatrorama

"An impressive and ingenious scenic device made up of a hundred long knives that offers the audience some beautiful moments of dance with a striking aesthetic."

Delphine Baffour - Dancing with the feather

"A piece that stirs joy and anxiety in the power of gesture".

Marie Juliette Verga - Toute la culture

"Donne moi... is indeed the praise or manifesto of movement, that which moves forward and drains energy and strength, invading body and mind with respect for the other: both the "active" spectator and the performer revealing themselves and their own convictions".

Geneviève Charras - L'amuse-Danse

Production

Production: SINE QUA NON ART
Coproductions : Le Manège, Scène Nationale de Reims - La Coursive, Scène Nationale de La Rochelle, CCN Ballet de Lorraine - Nancy, VIADANSE - CCN de Franche Comté - Belfort, Le Ballet de l'Opéra National du Rhin - CCN de Mulhouse, Le Pacifique CDC - Grenoble, Pôle Sud CDC - Strasbourg.
With the financial support of: DRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine (project support), Le Gymnase CDC Roubaix - Hauts de France, Beaulieu - Poitiers, Adami , Spedidam
SINE QUA NON ART is supported by the Région Nouvelle Aquitaine, and by the City of La Rochelle.

Credits

Concept - Choreography - Scenography: Christophe Béranger and Jonathan Pranlas-Descours
Performance: Christophe Béranger, Jorge Moré Calderon, Virginie Garcia, Jonathan Pranlas-Descours, Francesca Ziviani
Original and live music: Yohan Landry and Damien Skoracki
Lighting design: Olivier Bauer
Set design: Gregory Fradin
Costumes: Pauline Kieffer
Stage management, sound: Laurent Savatier
Dramaturgy: Denis Forgeron

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