Manuel Roque (Canada)
A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry
Price: 10 – 15 €
BANG BANG The body at its limits. A fascinating test of endurance where the jump becomes a manifesto.
BANG BANG is a physical challenge. Through relentless, repetitive jumping, two performers are pushed to their limits of concentration and stamina. As exhaustion sets in, both strength and vulnerability, discipline and humanity are laid bare. Canadian choreographer Manuel Roque creates an experience in which individuality dissolves and the body becomes a political instrument. BANG BANG is also a cautionary reflection on the allure of performance and the toll it can take on the artist. The result is a poetic and brutally honest dance statement.
Practical information
Tickets: 15 € full price / 10 € students and senior
Venue: Bratislava, A4 – priestor súčasnej kultúry (praktické info)
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ABOUT THE PIECE
Created in 2017, the solo BANG BANG is being brought back in the form of a duo.
BANG BANG is an ordeal. It involves a repetition of jumps and athletic motifs, counted in 11, demanding exceptional concentration and physical commitment from the performers. Gradually, this demand reveals their combativeness, their resilience, but also the flaws of the human performer. This two-person version adds the idea of experiencing the ordeal together, combining each performer’s strengths and weaknesses. The rigor of execution meets the sweat. Over the course of 50 minutes, the performers’ identities dissolve. Continuing to jump becomes at once absurd, poetic, and political.
Choreography: Manuel Roque
Performers: Nils Levazeux, Manuel Roque
Rehearsal director and artistic advisors: Sophie Corriveau, Lucie Vigneault
Dramaturgy: Peter James
Costumes and set design: Marilène Bastien
Lights: Marc Parent
Soundtrack: Manuel Roque, incluant des extraits de Debussy, Chopin, Merzbow, 2001 Space Odyssey, Tarkovsky
Production manager: Judith Allen
Coproduction: Festival TransAmériques (FTA)
DELEGATE PRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT DLD
With the support of: La Fabrik (Potsdam, Allemagne), Maison de la culture Frontenac (Montréal, Canada), Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Montréal, Canada), Théâtre Hector (L’Assomption, Canada), Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), L’Agora de la danse (Montréal, Canada), Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et Conseil des arts de Montréal
Acknowledgements: Indiana Escach, Élise Bergeron, Alexia Martel
MANUEL ROQUE
Aside to an exciting and diverse career as a performer for dance companies such as Marie Chouinard, Dominique Porte, Sylvain Émard Danse, Fortier Danse-Création, and Daniel Léveillé, Manuel Roque is also choreographer and created RAW-me (2010) and Ne Meurs pas tout de suite, on nous regarde (2012) with Lucie Vigneault.
In 2013, he founded Cie Manuel Roque and presented Project In Situ at Montréal’s Place des. Then Data has been presented at Usine C and at FTA 2014 before an international tour. During 2014-2015 season, Manuel is participating to Migrant Bodies, an international research project where he created Black Matter (2015). He also choreographed Aurora for the EDCM Students (2015). And the quartet 4-OR (2015) was presented by Tangente and Parcours Danse. In 2015, he benefits from a 2 month´s creative residency at La Fabrik Potsdam, thanks to the financial support from CALQ. (August – October 2015). The same year, he is also nominated Bearer of Hope in the annual selection of the prestigious “Tanz” magazine. The solo, bang bang, premiered in Lyon, at FTA 2017 and in Paris at Festival June Event and receive the Best Choreography Price from “Les Prix de la Danse de Montréal 2017. In 2018 he receives the « Studio du Québec ŕ Paris », a 6 month residency for research and artistic resourcing offered by CALQ and Cité des Arts ŕ Paris.
His last solo SIERRANEVADA is cancelled because of the pandemic but did premiere in 2021 at FTA in Montreal.
His creative universe focuses on the contemporary languages breeding, on the meeting of a kinesthesic virtuosity and the research of an upstanding presence. Revolving around the notion of contemporary human condition, his work aims to open consciousness and to propose sensible, poetic and genuine artistic propositions.
NILS LEVAZEUX
Nils Levazeux began dancing jazz at his local school. He then started ballet so that he could join the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Nantes (France), where he stayed for three years while completing his secondary studies. It was there that he discovered contemporary dance and improvisation, particularly through the somatic approach.
Creating and reorganising internal and external volumes, knowing how to slow down to take the time to look, listen and feel without provoking or judging are notions that still play a major role in his development as an artist today. He then joined the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM), where a three-year journey of varied encounters, questioning and learning began. It was a minor revolution in his body and his way of seeing things, whether danced or not. It was there that he met Manuel Roque, a teacher at the EDCM, and later became his apprentice and understudy.
