Fantasie minor
Spectacle, festival (concert, danse, théâtre)
Let yourself be transported by two young urban dancers to Schubert's Fantasy in F minor!
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19 April 2025 at 7pm
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Free
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Open to all
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Venue :
Cour d'honneur of the Logis du Gouverneur
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Bookings
Centre Socioculturel Municipal Marie Durand :contact.cscm@ville-aigues-mortes.fr04 66 73 14 25
PRESENTATION
FANTASIE MINORMarcoda Silva FerreiraCollectiontout-terrain du centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
"With its title borrowed from the lexical field of the piano, Fantasie minor was born of my meeting with Chloé Robidoux and Anka Postic, young dancers from Caen. The two have been dancing together since childhood, and their training in urban dance (hip-hop, dancehall, house dance) has played a part in their relationship and their development as individuals.
The piece responds to a proposal from the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie to create a work that can be performed in a wide variety of places: with a stage measuring 4 metres by 4 metres that can be easily adapted, Fantasie Minor can be performed indoors or outdoors, in theatres or gardens, in squares, etc. The space of the stage imposes a constant proximity on the dancers, which they have to negotiate and deal with.
This sharing of space between two people is also what is at stake in the music of the piece, Franz Schubert's Fantasy in F minor, Op. 103, a composition for piano with four hands, a direct echo of the dancers' four feet in such a restricted space.
Because their culture is one of 'battles' and 'cyphers', the two dancers are constantly reinventing their practice. There is something both fraternal and competitive between them, as if they were constantly responding to the logic of the game. These biographical elements, these juvenile reminiscences, run through a choreographic composition inspired by the dances that these bodies have studied. For me, Fantasie minor is a kind of rite of passage, an idea underlined by the Fantasie in F minor, the last piece composed by Schubert before his death at the age of 31, like a premonition of another rite of passage.
The dance approaches this composition by drawing on the illustrative approach of urban dances to music. The performance begins virtuosically, almost conqueringly, but as the choreography progresses other sensibilities are revealed. It's as if, beyond "conquering the stage and the audience", the dancers were allowing themselves to feel or reveal a more fragile dimension. The music features moods that allow them to oscillate between these two sensibilities. On their feet, hard-toed boots amplify these variations in interpretation. Worn like ballet shoes throughout the piece, they give them a heavier silhouette, anchored to the ground. The duet is built on this gap between the foot that strikes the ground with force and assurance and the almost crystalline piqué of classical ballet. The absurd and the virtuoso as a springboard for aesthetic, technical and personal rediscovery".
Marco da Silva Ferreira, September 2021
This show is presented by the Centre Socioculturel Municipal Marie Durand and theCentre des Monuments Nationaux, in partnership with the Maison Danse d'Uzès.
THE ARTISTS
MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA, Choreographer
Born in 1986 in Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal), Marco graduated in physiotherapy from the Institut Piaget, Gaia (2010).
A professional performer since 2008, Marco da Silva Ferreira has danced for André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes and Paulo Ribeiro, among others. He worked as artistic assistant to Victor hugo Pontes in the work Fall and Se alguma vez precisares da minha vida, vem e toma-a in 2014, then as choreographic assistant in the play "Hamlet" by Mala Voadora.
His work as a choreographer has developed around urban practices, in an ongoing reflection on the meaning of emerging dances today, through an abstract and highly autobiographical expressionism.
Between 2018-2019, Marco was associate artist at the Teatro Municipal do Porto, then from 2019 to 2021 associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie.
ANKA POSTIC, dancer
Anka is a hip-hop and jazz dancer born in Caen. He has branched out by taking the time to write a collection of poems and an essay on dance. He composes the music to which he dances, then posts videos on the Internet to talk about his choreographic reflections and his progress. He started dancing at the age of 7 with capoeira, continued with hip-hop at 8, and entered the Conservatoire de Caen for jazz and classical at 16. Anka developed a passion for the stage, battles and videos, which enabled him to meet a lot of people. In September 2020, he moved to Paris and entered the Pôle Supérieur de Jazz de Paris Boulogne-Billancourt. Today, he continues to develop his art through his projects and collaborations.
In 2021 he will be performing with Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira in his next creation, an all-terrain commission from the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie.
CHLOÉ ROBIDOUX, dancer
Chloé Robidoux, aka Roby Cuba, is a hip-hop dancer. She has nurtured her own experience through numerous hip-hop battles, performances for major brands, festival shows and show creations... She was a member of the Welcome Project company in Caen for several years, a company mixing urban and contemporary dance.
In 2017 she left for New York to dance with H+ The Hip Hop Dance Conservatory. A passionate dancer, Chloé has enriched and perfected her discipline by discovering other dance practices such as electro, voguing, Double Dutch and Afro house.
In 2021, she will be performing for Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira in his next creation, an all-terrain commission from the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie.
ELSA DUMONTEL, choreographic assistant
Born in Aurillac, Elsa Dumontel trained at ACTS Paris and is also studying for a degree in cultural mediation at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle. In 2016, she joined the professional training programme for dancer-performer Coline in Istres, where she took part in the creations of Georges Appaix. Today she works for Thomas Chopin le Charme de l'Emeute, Barbara Amar and more recently Alban Richard for the piece 3 Works for 12.
ALEKSANDAR PROTIC, costumes
Aleksandar Protic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, specialising in fashion and costume design, and from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, specialising in fashion design. In 2010, he was selected by the Maison de la Création to represent Portugal (where he lives) in the Cité Euroméditerranéenne de La Mode project, with an exhibition in Marseille, European Capital of Culture in July 2013.
In addition to his work as a fashion designer, he works as a costume designer for theatre and contemporary dance.
TEASER
Created on 31 May 2022 at the Halle 901 in Saint-Pierre-Eglise and on 1 June 2022 at the Salle des fêtes in Montebourg, with Le Trident, scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (50)
Delegated production centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie
Coproduction Le Trident, scène nationale de Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, TANDEM scène nationale Arras-Douai, Culture Commune, scène nationale du bassin minier du Pas-de-Calais, Espace 1789, scène conventionnée d'intérêt national pour la danse de Saint-Ouen, Atelier de Paris / CDCN
With the support of the Ministère de la Culture "Résidence d'Artiste associé" - Drac Normandie, the Département du Calvados as part of a decentralised residency within the Communauté de communes Terre d'Auge, the Caisse des Dépôts and the Institut français as part of the Saison France-Portugal 2022.
Loan of studio La Bibi, Caen
THE CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL DE CAEN EN NORMANDIE IS SUBSIDISED BY THE MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE - DRAC NORMANDIE, THE NORMANDY REGION, THE CITY OF CAEN, THE DEPARTMENT OF CALVADOS, THE DEPARTMENT OF LA MANCHE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ORNE.
IT RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM THE INSTITUT FRANÇAIS FOR SOME OF ITS TOURS ABROAD.