Performance

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

Échelle Humaine 2019

Dance Festival

7 days of Festival
from 16 Sep to 22 Sep 2019
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)
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
Marie-Noëlle Genod describes herself as a "distributor" of poetry and light, she doesn't invent anything that doesn't already exist, she makes the ferret go by, "she's been here, she'll go there again", she reveals.

She has always acted and directed. She first worked with Claude Régy and François Tanguy (Théâtre du Radeau). After practising contact improvisation, she moved on to dance, working mainly with Loïc Touzé. In 2003, Loïc Touzé offered her carte blanche to produce her first show at the Let's Dance festival at Lieu Unique (Nantes). En attendant Genod was based on the Anglo-Saxon stand-up model. A series of commissions (always "cartes blanches") followed: shows - nearly a hundred to date - and performances, usually presented at festivals or venues for dance or hybrid forms. A theatre from which the drama and action have been removed, leaving only the poetry, the ghost, the trace. Marie-Noëlle Genod has worked with many performers who can now be found on the biggest stages; in this sense, it could be said that she has marked a generation.

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