Developing in the universe of percussion and electronics, In Vivo Dance 2013 combines writing for the movement of both sonorous and dancing bodies. This program supervised by the percussionist Samuel Favre, a soloist from the Ensemble intercontemporain and by Thierry De Mey will be featured in this evening’s program, opens the doors to a new type of artistic encounter.

Alban Richard © Agathe Poupeney

• Creations by the Dance, Composition, Percussion, and Electronic Workshops
  performed by the percussionists from Samuel Favre’s master class.
• Thierry De Mey Light Music*

Light Music by Thierry De Mey

Directors Thierry De Mey, Samuel Favre
Choreographers Christine Gérard, Mark Lorimer, Alban Richard, Clinton Stringer
Dancer Aurélie Berland
Percussion Samuel Favre*
Computer Music Design Christophe Lebreton (Grame), Laurent Pottier (Gmem)*
IRCAM Pedagogical Advisor Benoit Meudic

An IRCAM/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Charleroi Danses, Micadanses coproduction. With the support of the FCM – Fonds pour la Création Musicale and the SACD.

Naufrage by Clorinde Durand

In contrast, the students from the Fresnoy will present their first videos, imagined from works selected from the IRCAM repertoire.

Creations by the Electronic Music and Video Workshop

Conductor Andrea Cera
IRCAM Academic Advisor Grégory Beller

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains coproduction. IRCAM and the CENTQUATRE are partners for experimental performance projects. With the support of the FCM – Fonds pour la Création Musicale and the Sacem.

© Anna Schewelew

Anna Schewelew and Fabian Offert, two young stage designers from the Giessen Institute where Heiner Goebbels teaches, meet the imagination of Laurent Durupt. The musicians from Le Balcon on parole, connected to a misplaced server on the stage of the Bouffes du Nord that has become and electronic circuit. In the Baroque esthetic of Professor Bad Trip, completed in 2000, Fausto Romitelli had already staged another form of addiction: the loss of control and experiencing the void.

• Fausto Romitelli Trash TV Trance
• Laurent Durupt P-Server, premiere Cursus 2
• Fausto Romitelli Professor Bad Trip I, II and III

© Anna Schewelew

Director Anna Schewelew, Fabian Offert
Le Balcon
Guitar Giani Caserotto
Conductor Maxime Pascal
IRCAM Computer Music Design Laurent Durupt
IRCAM Academic Advisor Jean Lochard

© Anna Schewelew

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Hessische Theaterakademie coproduction. With the support of the FCM – Fonds pour la Création Musicale and the Sacem (scholarships for Cursus 2 composers).

Following his studies in piano and composition at the conservatory in Padou in Italy and computer music at IRCAM, Andrea Cera began his activity as a composer working on both institutional and low-budget projects.

While his work can be considered a part of the domains of contemporary music and sound installation, his work is proof of a constant desire to combine commercial music and avant-garde music. He is fascinated by certain kinds of dance or electronic music as well.

In 2004-2005, he was invited to the Fresnoy-studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing where he produced NightRun, an interactive installation where the sound material is constructed with the visitor’s screams, and Reactive Ambient Music, an installation based on a real-time analysis of the sound landscape.

In 2005, he worked on Mutating Score for the choreographer Hervé Robbe in collaboration with IRCAM. Based on the computer capture of voice and danced movements, this work was the final act of a trilogy where the analysis of danced movement and the exploration of the dancer’s voice make up the common themes for experimental music.

Since 2009, he has developed tools for sound design, leading him to work with Renault on the sounds of an electric car.

Andrea Cera has worked on a regular basis with Hervé Robbe since 2005 on several works, installations, songs, expositions, and choreographed works. He has also worked with Marie-Laure Cazin and Elisa Zurlo, with J. F. Nesplatz on a film, with Gilles Boustani in theater and video performance.