danse (4) © Patrick Berger

In d a n s e (4), Rosalind Crisp expands her project by inviting three French dance artists, Céline Debyser, Max Fossati and Alban Richard, to appropriate her choreographic materials and processes of research. Her intention was to develop multiple registers of  d a n s e  , renderings of the work that are very different to her own and that can co-exist. For this she immerses the dancers in her choreographic world, at the same time constantly invites them to effect it, to transform it in their own way and even to reinvent it.

The dancers inhabit the space one by one. Each of them composes according to their individual relationship to the practice and within the shared parameters of the “world” of  d a n s e . It is a very personal journey experienced in the immediacy of the moment. The work is structured to bring the four dancers into common spaces at times, without ever imposing a dramaturgy.

With this work Rosalind Crisp also extends her investigation into perception, taking the public into an experience of dance that is sensitive, visceral, alive and in contact with the four dancers. The proximity to the dancers intensifies the proprioception of the spectators, eliciting in them an interior movement. Reciprocally, these effects the proprioception of the dancers, porous to the presence of the people around them. The spectators are free to move through space and take different points of view on each dancer, or on the group. The dancers develop a subtle listening in relation to one another, with the public and with the space.

The music – played on electric guitar by Hansueli Tischauser -, arrives to reinforce the sensation of magnetism that is being exercised between the dancers and the public.

conception & choreography Rosalind Crisp

in collaboration with Céline Debyser, Max Fossati, Alban Richard

assistant choreographer Andrew Morrish

live music Hansueli Tischhauser

lights & technical direction Marco Wehrspann

costumes Maeva Cunci

stage design Rosalind Crisp and Marco Wehrspann

duration 60 minutes

premiered 10 june 2008 at Théâtre du Soleil as part of festival JUNE EVENTS 08 of the Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson

touring Les Plateaux de la Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne CDC 2008 (extracts); Condition Publique Roubaix 2008; Festival Artdanthé Vanves 2009, Centre des Bords de Marne scène conventionnée du Perreux; festival Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne 2009

touring company 8 people (1 technician, 4 dancers, 1 assistant choreographer, 1 musician, 1 tour manager)

technical requirements open space with no fixed seating / rig height : 5 metres minimum

production Association Omeo Dance – Company Rosalind Crisp; Coproduction : Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson; CDC-Biennale nationale de danse du Val-de-Marne; Centre des bords de Marne–scène conventionnée du Perreux; Centre chorégraphique national de Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais; Condition Publique-Roubaix.

with the support of ADAMI and the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Ile-de-France–Ministère de la culture et de la communication.  In partnership with Centre national de la danse- Pantin for studios and Mains d’œuvres.