PAUMES

Paumes (Palms) is a series of short pieces created on contemporary music compositions. One of our objectives in making this project was to bring the boundaries that exist between the contemporary dance audience and the contemporary music audience closer. We wanted to propose our choreographic language to contemporary music listeners, by making them see dance from other angles and varying the usual places and contexts of performances. Conversely, we wanted to give a dance audience the possibility to "see" music, by proposing contemporary music compositions that are often little known, frequently because of the lack of a "way in". We wish to establish contacts with other composers and contemporary musicians, and to envisage a performance, creating a full programme composed of four pieces, musically and choreographically distinct from one another.

Paumes is composed of four pieces: the solo Murmurs and the duets Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, Strumentale and Seuls bruits des corps entre eux. These pieces were choreographed on compositions by Denis Pousseur, Frederic Rzewski, Stefano Scodanibbio and Salvatore Sciarrino, respectively. They develop different universes connected by a series of imaginary bridges. These bridges become evident mainly by the order in which the pieces are presented in the programme, that can be presented without the solo Murmurs or without the duet Strumentale, while keeping the structure established between the three duets, or between the solo and the first and third duet.

PRESS

choreography Olga de Soto
music Denis Pousseur (Solo for clarinet from the trio for clarinet, violin and piano Le Silence du Futur), Frederic Rzewski (Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, for two pianos), Stefano Scodanibbio (Strumentale, solo for double-bass) and Salvatore Sciarrino (Sei quartetti brillanti, for string quartett)
scenography and costumes Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
lighting and sound Gaëtan van den Berg

programme created and performed by Olga de Soto and Pascale Gigon

© Laurent Lafolie (1), Jorge León (2, 3), Grégoire Romefort (4)

TOUR CALENDAR

07 NOV 1997, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Brussels (BE)
08 NOV 1997, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Brussels (BE)
21 NOV 1997, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
22 NOV 1997, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
14 FEB 1998, Relais Culturel Château Rouge, Annemasse (FR)
28 APR 1998, Le Cratère Scène Nationale, Alès (FR)
15 - 31 JULY 1998, Les Hivernales d’été, Festival d'Avignon, Avignon (FR)
09 JULY 1999, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Presqu’îles, Paris (FR)
31 MAR 1999, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Biennale de Charleroi Danses, Brussels (BE)
01 APR 1999, Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Biennale de Charleroi Danses, Brussels (BE)
16 APR 1999, Festival Plurielles, Théâtre Saragosse, Pau (FR)
18 OCT 1999, Dance Theatre Festival ‘99, Prague (CZ)
19 OCT 1999, Dance Theatre Festival ‘99, Prague (CZ)
04 FEB 2000, Festival Danse Émoi, Limoges (FR)
02 FEB 2001, La Halle aux Grains Scène Nationale, Festival Les Éclectiques, Blois (FR)