Yves-Noël Genod
Saturday 21 Sep 2019 from 1pm to 2pm, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Sunday 22 Sep 2019 from 2pm to 3pm
Yves-Noël Genod, Dira au moins une phrase de Merce Cunningham (et peut être un peu plus)
©Marc Domage
Yves-Noël Genod will tell at least one sentence of Merce Cunningham (and perhaps a little more)
It's unlikely that Merce Cunningham ever had anything to say about dance that he didn't say... through dance. Or so he liked to tell journalists, always with a hint of humour. This was bound to capture the attention of Yves-Noël Genod, given his interest in – not to say passion for - things that make no sense. Things with no predetermined meaning, no moral or political vision. No ideas about the thing as meant (another meaning!) by Wallace Stevens when he wrote, "Not ideas about the thing, but the thing itself", or by Anton Chekhov who exclaimed (in a letter) that "It’s about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything".
If Merce Cunningham has anything to say it is, by default, about things that cannot be said, except on rare occasions, in poetry. Yves-Noël Genod delivers a performance of which he knows nothing in advance; an "accident", a "conversation", he says, watched over by a young man, one hundred years old, Merce Cunningham, whose evocation continues to invite us to turn our gaze to dance...
Concept: Yves-Noël Genod
Interpretation : Yves-Noël Genod, Pierre Guilbault
Thanks: Denise Luccioni
Production: Le Dispariteur
Estimated time: 1 hour
Full rate: 12€
Reduced rate: 8€ (see conditions)
If Merce Cunningham has anything to say it is, by default, about things that cannot be said, except on rare occasions, in poetry. Yves-Noël Genod delivers a performance of which he knows nothing in advance; an "accident", a "conversation", he says, watched over by a young man, one hundred years old, Merce Cunningham, whose evocation continues to invite us to turn our gaze to dance...
Concept: Yves-Noël Genod
Interpretation : Yves-Noël Genod, Pierre Guilbault
Thanks: Denise Luccioni
Production: Le Dispariteur
Estimated time: 1 hour
Full rate: 12€
Reduced rate: 8€ (see conditions)
Yves-Noël Genod, will tell at least one sentence of Merce Cunningham (and perhaps a little more), 2019
© Marc Domage
Yves-Noël Genod, will tell at least one sentence of Merce Cunningham (and perhaps a little more), 2019
© Marc Domage
Yves-Noël Genod se présente lui-même comme un "distributeur" de poésie et de lumière, il n’invente rien qui n’existe déjà, il fait passer le furet, "passé par ici, il repassera par là", il révèle.
Né en 1972, il a toujours joué, mis en scène. Il travaille d’abord avec Claude Régy et François Tanguy (théâtre du Radeau). A partir de la pratique du contact improvisation, il dérive vers la danse avec une collaboration principale avec Loïc Touzé. Celui-ci lui propose, en 2003, à l’occasion d’une carte blanche au festival Let’s Dance du Lieu Unique (Nantes), de fabriquer son premier spectacle. Ce spectacle, intitulé En attendant Genod, s’appuie sur le modèle des stand-up anglo-saxons. Les commandes (toujours des "cartes blanches") s’enchaînent ensuite : spectacles - près d’une centaine à ce jour- et performances, présentés le plus souvent dans des festivals ou des lieux de danse ou de formes hybrides. Un théâtre dont on aurait enlevé le drame, l’action, et dont il ne resterait que la poésie, le fantôme, la trace. Yves-Noël Genod a travaillé avec de nombreux interprètes qu’on retrouve désormais sur les plus grandes scènes ; on peut dire dans ce sens qu’il a marqué une génération.