Les porteurs d’ombre is involved in numerous actions of artistic and cultural education. These interventions amount to about 500 hours a year and affect more than 1000 people, of whom 440 live in the Ile-de-France (according to the 2019 statistics). These actions take various forms: they are both workshops corresponding to existing institutional arrangements, but also moments of encounters that attempt to reinvent the arrangements themselves, blurring the boundaries between artistic creation and education transmission.
Gestures and transmissions | Archives and memories
Dominique Brun and her dancers are developing projects to raise awareness of all the pieces of the choreographer’s repertoire.
The creation Le Poids des choses & Pierre et le Loup, conceived as a educational tool, allows workshops to be held for all audiences. The transmission actions are numerous and varied, the dancers invent with each partner different transmission formulas: workshops for amateurs and/or professionals, workshops in schools, parent-child workshops, composition of choreographies with the participants ... These actions of transmission are based on the action verbs of Rudolf Laban's Effort system which are used by the choreographer to characterize each character in Pierre et le Loup. These workshops offer time for practice: experimentation with movement, transmission of the dances from the piece, personal compositions but also theoretical moments of initiation into the Laban's Effort system.
The actions which bring together music and dance have also been imagined, notably in partnership with the orchestra Les Siècles and the Philharmonie de Paris. These workshops are led in paris by a musician from the Les Siecles orchestra and a danser from Les porteurs d’ombre. They have been organised in primary schools, colleges and high schools in Ile-de-France.
Moreover, Dominique continues to work as a lecturer on the major works in the history of modern and contemporary dance. The proofreading of Bronislava Nijinska’s pieces, that she has been working on since 2019, has also given rise to new proposals for educational and cultural actions. It allows us to share in the process of the choreographic recreation of Les Noces, and we can see that this is where the archives, movement scores and inventions all meet.
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BOUTURES D’UN SACRE
EDUCATIONAL CREATION
Boutures d’un Sacre is a project of extract transmission from the choreography of Sacre # 2 by Dominique Brun, developed by Clarisse Chanel and Marcela Santander Corvalàn. The idea is to combine two primary classes, who rehearse for 4 to 5 weeks with dancers from the production, to build together an educational creation. For one a week a month, the students are led to understand, feel and finally dance the Le Sacre du printemps. Since 2012, six performances have taken place in Brittany at the extension sauvage festival, in Noisy-le-Sec, in Brest, in Val de Reuil, in Orléans and in Besançon.
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ENSEMBLE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE VALDOISIEN
Since the end of 2019, the project has been based on the transmission of one of Dominique Brun’s works by an interpreter of the company Caroline Baudouin to the Ensemble chorégraphique valdoisien. This ensemble brings together students from the Argenteuil and Cergy-Pontoise conservatories, and the Enghien-les-Bains music and dance school. The creation of a group scene from Sacre # 2 is performed during four performances organised in partner establishments.
LYCÉE RACINE PARIS
COORDINATION OF THE DANCE OPTION AT THE LYCÉE RACINE IN PARIS
Dominique Brun has been coordinating the dance option (both specialty and optional option) at the Lycée Racine since 2016. In collaboration with the dance teacher Valérie Zimmermann, Dominique Brun has developed a program of immersion for students in the choreographic environment (workshops with dancers from various choreographic backgrounds , shows, conferences...). This is to ensure a theoretical and practical continuity that accompanies students from Year 11 to Sixth Form. This teaching allows each student to practice their improvisation but also to confront dance works from the repertoire, to put into action the question of the interpretation of the dance movement.