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		<title>Papa, je veux danser, papa!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le compagnie WalÃ´ et la fondation Le Grand Cru prÃ©sentent:

LÃ©wÃ© ou l&#8217;enfance de l&#8217;art



Cotonou/ Abomey/ Porto-Novo/ Parakoi/ Ouidah



Programma: du 5 Mars au 30 Juin 2010


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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>LÃ©wÃ© ou l&#8217;enfance de l&#8217;art</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Cotonou/ Abomey/ Porto-Novo/ Parakoi/ Ouidah</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Programma: du 5 Mars au 30 Juin 2010</p>
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		<title>Exchange program Benin &#8211;  Mali 7 young choreographers at  work</title>
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On December 26th 2009, 6 dancers from Compagnie WalÃ´ , Benin, including their artistic leader Rachelle Agbossou arrived at the airport of Bamako at the same time as the Grand Cru team from Amsterdam. The next day Le Grand Cru had organized a lunch at The Cuban teachers residence who had prepared a great lunch [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">On December 26<sup>th</sup> 2009, 6 dancers from Compagnie WalÃ´ , Benin, including their artistic leader Rachelle Agbossou arrived at the airport of Bamako at the same time as the Grand Cru team from Amsterdam. The next day Le Grand Cru had organized a lunch at The Cuban teachers residence who had prepared a great lunch as ice-breaking for 6 Malian dancers and the 6 Benin dancers to meet. The Malians were chosen based on their talent shown in the November presentation with Le Grand Cru. In the beginning they were pretty apart, the Malians being late as usual, but as the afternoon passes some of them started to dance together. A perfect introduction well prepared by our local producer Jasmin Fischer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The very next day we started the program of interaction by dividing dancers over the choreographerâ€™s according to their wishes in numbers. We mixed the two countries as much as possible and introduced a program for the coming six weeks in which they were to do contemporary classes with Le Grand Cru and traditional dance classes with dances from Benin and MaliÂ  which they learn toÂ each other. during the rest ogf the daily program 3 choreographers worked in shifts so that, including the Saturday, each choreographer could work 3 times a week. After two weeks we left the program, running well with some first forms of choreographic work appearing.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Â Two weeks later Feri returned to find the proccess running fine, a good atmosphere and a good working together, with Rachelle Agbossou as accepted leader of the interregional team. The choreographerâ€™s were working hard and progress was impressing. Nonetheless a lot of questions, remarks and suggestions were put by Feri. Amazingly how easy the young choreographerâ€™s worked with any of those commentsÂ , find their own solutions to it and rapidly improved the quality of their work. The last weekend before the premiere light designer Pink Steenvoorden entered the process to tell them about the importance of light for dance and to show in a simple manner what light can do. Consequently he discussed with each choreographer what they had in mind and showed it in a limited setting. Although Le Grand Cru offered to create a little theatre in the main hall of the Conservatoire in Mali, the direction did not respond accurately to this idea. There was brand new light in the storage of the Conservatoire but insufficient infrastructure. For the actual performances at the National Museum of Mali we needed a full infrastructure as there was nothing in the Museum. Pink found a musician who did the local â€˜Popstarsâ€ for TV and was willing to rent out the infrastructure for lightning. With the help of local theatre group ACT SEPT, their technician Marlo and some brand new lights from the Conservatoire we could create a real theatre with floor, backdrop, light and music. Although 2 performance evenings were received with sepsis, usually one night full is a big success, we had 2 nights a full house of over 250 people per night. The second performance was planned mostly for the dancers and choreographers to strengthen their quality and it did, the second night was stronger then the first. The next day we left for Segou, to present some of the work on the biggest festival in West Africa: Festival sur Le Niger</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">SÃ©gou, a beautiful town along the Niger river, some 3 hours east of Bamako had a big festival terrain , the African version of PinkPop, with superstars like Salif Keitah and Baba Maal. In atmosphere it equals more the Mundial Festival in Tilburg. There was nobody to meet us and after some hours, the head of the dance department of the Conservatoire, who is at the same time programmer of the festival, gave our badges to one of the students. The next day we performed on the little podium, which is small for musicians and thus super tiny for dancers, even after we removedÂ  all the amplification from the stage. A power cut postponed our presentation for more then 2 hours, a time most of the dancers used to sleep and to dream about their success in Bamako. When they suddenly had to go on stage they were unprepared and the audience mostly had left for dinner. A weak performance for little audience. Not the idea we had in mind.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">After a strong pep talk by Le Grand Cru- Noortje had joined the second performance in Bamako- everybody was out for an artisticÂ revenge. At the big stage on the river, they performed amazingly well, despite the long distance from stage to audience, the visual and physical hinder of an unmovable percussion set and the lack of functionalÂ light for a theatre show instead of a pop show. Their reward was a big applause by appr. 2500 people andÂ  beautiful images on the huge video screens. The after party was long and the next day we headed home to Bamako. Noortje and Pink left for Amsterdam and Feri went with the Beninese dancers to Benin to start to rerehearse a 2008 performance with partly new people with company Walo in Benin.</p>
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		<title>Impressions des Ã©tudiants du Conservatoire des Art et MÃ©tiers multimÃ©dias</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impressions des Ã©tudiants du Conservatoire des Art et MÃ©tiers multimÃ©dias Â«Â Balla fassÃ©kÃ© kouyateÂ Â» sur l â€˜atelier de Le Grand Cru Ã  novembre et la Cooperation avec CompagnieÂ  WalÃ´ de Benin et Le Grand Cru dans le spectacle A Corps et a Cri
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Impressions des Ã©tudiants du Conservatoire des Art et MÃ©tiers multimÃ©dias Â«Â Balla fassÃ©kÃ© kouyateÂ Â» sur l â€˜atelier de Le Grand Cru Ã  novembre et la Cooperation avec CompagnieÂ  WalÃ´ de Benin et Le Grand Cru dans le spectacle A Corps et a Cri</em></p>
<p>CetÂ  atelier de trois semainesÂ  entre le grand cru et nous a Ã©tÃ© une nouvelle expÃ©rience On a appris a travers une mÃ©thodeÂ  encore simple de mÃ©langer le contemporain et le traditionnelÂ ;saÂ  aussi donner le gout de travaille entre nousÂ  Ã©tudiants maliens, et susciter un engouement de confianceÂ  &#8211; <strong>Assetou Y Sissoko-</strong></p>
<p>Quant je pense au dÃ©but de lâ€™annÃ©e a maintenantÂ , je vois mon Ã©volution je dit que lâ€™atelier novembre Ã©tait a Ã©tÃ© un atelier trÃ¨s important pour mon Ã©volution en tan,t que danseurs et chorÃ©graphe. Jâ€™ai eu une ouverture dâ€™esprit dans la crÃ©ation plus grande. Le fait de travaillÃ© avec dâ€™autre artiste et des collÃ¨guesÂ  pendant toute ces semaine nous des dÃ©faut et qualitÃ© quâ€™on a tout un chacun et nous prÃ©pare a une vie artistique loin du pays avec dâ€™autre artiste diffÃ©rents. Avec les bÃ©ninois jâ€™ai Ã©tait confrontÃ© a une autre mentalitÃ© une autre vision qui mâ€™a enrichie. Artistiquement je me suis developper et techniquement aussi avec lâ€™atelier qui a a Ã©tÃ© donner par des formateur du grand-cru. Un atelier trÃ¨s important nous et notre corps. Ce stage nous a beaucoup aider la crÃ©ation de nos spectacle. Comment utiliser le temps le niveau le rythme. Surtout lâ€™Ã©criture chroregraphique et thÃ©Ã¢trale.- <strong>Seydou Diarra-</strong></p>
<p>Les spectacles ont Ã©tÃ© bien dÃ©roulÃ©s. Ils mâ€™ont permis dâ€™approfondir mes connaissances en tant que danseur et qui me permettront de jouer le rÃ´le dâ€™un chorÃ©graphe. Il a permis entre les danseurs un esprit de responsabilitÃ©, dâ€™Ã©quipe et de solidaritÃ©. A lâ€™issue de ces ateliers, jâ€™ai apprÃ©hendÃ© lâ€™immensitÃ© des taches dâ€™un danseur c&#8217;est-Ã -dire dansÃ© câ€™est ne pas dansÃ© seulement.- <strong>Jean Kassim</strong> <strong>DembÃ©lÃ©</strong>.</p>
<p>Lâ€™Ã©change avec les bÃ©ninois a Ã©tÃ© trÃ¨s fructueux, de part la diffÃ©rence qui a donnÃ©e cette qualitÃ© et aussi la volontÃ© qui est indispensable. Tout un chacun sâ€™est amÃ©liore dans les Domaines artistique, technique de danse et mÃªme les esprits de spectacle ont Ã©tÃ© enrichi. Les derniers jours de travail ont accueilli un atelier de rÃ©gie de lumiÃ¨re avec Mr PinkÂ Steenvoorden; il a Ã©tÃ© instructif. Il nous a parle des effets que la lumiÃ¨re simple ou colorÃ©e pouvait donner Ã  une chorÃ©graphie et Ã  surtout prÃ©ciser que la lumiÃ¨re Ã©tait un facteur essentiel Ã  un spectacle. â€“ <strong>Awa Kebe-</strong></p>
<p>Le programme duÂ spectacle Ã©tait bien car on a aimÃ© le projet, on Ã©tait tous courages, ce qui fait que tout les jours de rÃ©pÃ©titions Ã©tait convenables pour, les diffÃ©rentes rÃ©pÃ©titions quâ€™on a eu Ã  faire, cela Ã  facilitÃ© le spectacle. On peu pensÃ© la technique de danse si les mouvements sont claire et les directions, avec lâ€™exercices de feri et noortje ont Ã©tÃ© une autre opportunitÃ© dâ€™Ã©claircir notre techniques de danse contemporain, la partie qui Ã  pris assez de temps, câ€™Ã©tait la comprÃ©hension et la technique de la danse bÃ©ninois et les maliensÂ ; la partie la plus durable, Ã©tait la collaboration et lâ€™Ã©coute quand on est sur la scÃ¨ne de travail.-<strong> FATOUMATA BAGAYOKO</strong>-</p>
<p>Personnellement, cet atelier nous a initiÃ© dans le professionnalisme. Chaque chorÃ©graphe Ã©tait responsabilisÃ© de telle sorte que chacun se voyait obliger de se donner Ã  fond pour relever le dÃ©fi. Mais il y â€˜ avait un petit jeu qui sous entendais que chaque chorÃ©graphe Ã©tait aussi danseur, alors câ€™Ã©tait comme si tu me fais, je te ferai la mÃªmeÂ ; doc cela poussait les gens Ã  dÃ©ployer le maximum dâ€™effort pour tirer son Ã©pingle du jeu. Les Ã©changes sur la danse, lâ€™art et la vie courante ont Ã©tÃ© un atout capital dans le dÃ©veloppement physiques et intellectuel de tout un chacun du moins de ce qui est de ma part.Les conseils, les critiques et les discussions ont portÃ© leurs fruits. Cependant jâ€™affirmerai que chaque spectacle est un nouveau dÃ©fi Ã  relever. Jâ€™ai compris que le danseur, mÃªme si il yâ€™a une seule personne comme publique, doit donner tout son Ã©nergie et sa force pour le satisfaire.<strong> -HAMADOU SANOGO-</strong></p>
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		<title>Waiting Forbidden</title>
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After a successfull, premiere in Amman Le Grand Cru&#8217;s latest production Waiting Forbidden performed in Ramallah where the audience was as well both very enthousiastic as emotional. After that the performance had a tour in the Dancing on the Edge festival in the Netherlands. Dancing on the Edge presents contemporary dance and theatre from the [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">After a successfull, premiere in Amman Le Grand Cru&#8217;s latest production <strong>Waiting Forbidden</strong> performed in Ramallah where the audience was as well both very enthousiastic as emotional. After that the performance had a tour in the Dancing on the Edge festival in the Netherlands. Dancing on the Edge presents contemporary dance and theatre from the Middle East. In ten days ten performances were played, from which half of them were performed for High School students.</p>
<p>Maggie Foyer wrote about the performance within the festival in Dance Europe Magazine: â€˜Contemporary dance is still a fledging art in the Middle East and the most successful examples were the collaborations. Waiting Forbidden fired on all cylinders. With Dutch direction and choreography from Feri de Geus and Noortje Bijvoets, and collaboration with performers from Al Balad Theatre in Amman and El Funoun in Ramallah, it packed a political punch, laced with humour and galvanized by the rhythmic dubka pulse&#8230;.Sitting, the dancersâ€™ hands slapped it out on the boards; laying down, their legs twitched in unison and for brief wonderful moments it exploded in full- blooded dance. An inconclusive finish on a dream-wish epilogue left the solutions in the air but a clear message that Palestine may be down but not outâ€™</p>
<p>Around the performances an educational program was built, <a href="http://www.1001bytes.org">1001 Bytes</a>, in which 14 workshops were scheduled all over the Netherlands. For the dancers from Ramallah who were teaching debka and told the students about their culture and situation they live it was a surprise to see how colourful Dutch schools are.</p>
<p>Noortje Bijvoets</p>
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		<title>Le Grand Cru Training in Mali, November 2nd &#8211; 23rd 2009.</title>
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Dance techniques, composition, improvisation, Mapping Method.
The training was organized in conjunction with the head teacher of the Dance department of the Conservatoire des Arts et MÃ©tiers MultimÃ©dia Balla Faseyer Kouyante. This relative new institute (2003) has an impressive architecture with well equipped multifunctional areas for music, visual arts and dance. The Conservatoire is beautifully situated [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The training was organized in conjunction with the head teacher of the Dance department of the Conservatoire des Arts et MÃ©tiers MultimÃ©dia Balla Faseyer Kouyante. This relative new institute (2003) has an impressive architecture with well equipped multifunctional areas for music, visual arts and dance. The Conservatoire is beautifully situated on the hills just outside Bamako. The head teacher from our partner in Cuba, Arlai Gonzalez Padin brought together 24 dancers to choose for the workshop, which are all the dancers of the Conservatoire with the exception of the first year. Noortje Bijvoets selected 20 dancers to participate in the workshop. The level of dance quality ranged from rather beginner to intermediate quality in modern and folklore. The working attitude was moderate with moderate attentiveness and discipline in the beginning. Dancers were not used to process a lot of physical information per day. During the course 4 people dropped out because of lack of presence.<br />
Slowly the other students started to work more efficient and more dedicated, with some showing great talent and eagerness to learn from the start.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-39 alignleft" title="2009-Mali" src="http://www.legrandcru-dance.nl/now/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/2009-Mali-300x199.jpg" alt="2009-Mali" width="314" height="208" /><img class="size-medium wp-image-37 alignleft" title="Â©Aboubacar-Traore-Mali21_11" src="http://www.legrandcru-dance.nl/now/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Â©Aboubacar-Traore-Mali21_11-300x199.jpg" alt="Â©Aboubacar-Traore-Mali21_11" width="315" height="208" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The first two weeks we did all kinds of assignments in three daily periods. In the  morning training Noortje focused on spatial awareness, weight and form; Feri concentrated on gravity, centre work and contact work.<br />
In the second period of the day we worked on personal assignments from our mapping method. To learn more about their perception of life in Mali and their personal space.<br />
In the afternoon we worked on improvisation, composition and the nine point system. In the third session we worked in small assignments towards blending traditional material and contemporary material. The latter formed the base for the presentation at the school and in the National Museum. Feri worked on this presentation during the last week. The work attitude improved strongly by being pretty demanding and consequent. According to comments of teachers and direction most students performed above their average quality. The presentation in school was very strong, the presentation at the Museum was more difficult as the floor was very uneven, but this was compensated by the beautiful surrounding. It was our first encounter with the students and some of them are very talented. We will continue with a selected group in a choreographic project for the Festival sur le Niger. 6 Dancers from Benin and 6 students from the Conservatoire will blend, share their knowledge and will be coached in putting their inspiration into choreography.<br />
Happily we said Ã  bientot to FodÃ©, our punctual driver of the Conservatoire, to meet again after Christmas.<br />
Feri de Geus</p>
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Du 16 au 28 Novembre 2009 sâ€™est tenu Ã  Cotonou un atelier de formation en chorÃ©graphie et composition organisÃ© par la Fondation Le Grand cru et donnÃ© par le chorÃ©graphe AmÃ©ricain Erik Kaiel Ã  18 danseurs de la Compagnie de danse WalÃ´. Il sâ€™est [...]]]></description>
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<p>Du 16 au 28 Novembre 2009 sâ€™est tenu Ã  Cotonou un atelier de formation en chorÃ©graphie et composition organisÃ© par la Fondation Le Grand cru et donnÃ© par le chorÃ©graphe AmÃ©ricain Erik Kaiel Ã  18 danseurs de la Compagnie de danse WalÃ´. Il sâ€™est achevÃ© par la prÃ©sentation dâ€™un spectacle de restitution, dÃ©ambulatoire les 25 premiÃ¨res minutes qui a conduit le public composÃ© spÃ©cifiquement des partenaires de WalÃ´ dont lâ€™Ambassadeur du Royaume des Pays-Bas et sa dÃ©lÃ©gation ainsi que le secrÃ©taire GÃ©nÃ©ral du MinistÃ¨re de la Culture du BÃ©nin et  ses collaborateurs dans le studio ThÃ©odore BÃ©hanzin du FITHEB oÃ¹ les danseurs se sont exprimer une quinizaine de minute encore. Lâ€™atelier comprenait :<br />
La formation des danseurs aux techniques dâ€™improvisation de contact,<br />
dâ€™Ã©change de poids du corps et de portÃ©e de souplesse, de continuitÃ©, de fluiditÃ© dans les mouvements individuels et collectifs. Lâ€™initiation des danseurs Ã  la crÃ©ation de chorÃ©graphie sur des sites particuliers, les architectures.<br />
En tant que Directrice Artistique de la Compagnie jâ€™estime que les mÃ©thodes dâ€™enseignements utilisÃ©es par le formateur Erik Kaiel sont trÃ¨s efficaces. Il sâ€™agit de :<br />
TRAVAIL DE GROUPE : Lâ€™insistance sur les qualitÃ©s recherchÃ©es, la rÃ©pÃ©tition des mouvements et les images auxquelles Erik se rÃ©fÃ©rait pour que les danseurs aient un mÃªme niveau de comprÃ©hension sont efficaces et trÃ¨s appropriÃ©es. Il recherche la perfection chez chaque danseur, en mÃªme temps quâ€™il les obligeait Ã  rester connectÃ©s et Ã  lâ€™Ã©coute de lâ€™ensemble. Le rÃ©sultat nâ€™a pas Ã©tÃ© systÃ©matique pour tous les stagiaires dont les niveaux de connaissance en matiÃ¨re de danse de crÃ©ation sont variÃ©s.<br />
TRAVAIL INDIVIDUEL : Erik a attirÃ© lâ€™attention de chaque danseur sur ses qualitÃ©s personnelles, ce quâ€™il pourrait amÃ©liorer au fil des jours avec du travail. La plupart des stagiaires surtout les femmes ont moins peur de sauter le plus haut ou le plus loin possible pour les portÃ©es.<br />
TRAVAIL SUR LES SITES PARTICULIERS : Tous les danseurs sont unanimes sur le fait que câ€™est une chance pour eux dâ€™avoir reÃ§u cette formation, qui leur a ouvert les yeux sur les scÃ¨nes que constitue chaque endroit qui nous entoure. Danser dans les escaliers, sur les balustrades, les fenÃªtres, le plafond, les couloirs de moins dâ€™un mÃ¨tre de largeur, Ã©tait une dÃ©couverte pour les danseurs de WalÃ´, et une expÃ©rience extraordinaire. Erik Kaiel sâ€™est attelÃ© Ã  faire rechercher aux danseurs eux mÃªmes la fusion avec lâ€™architecture tout en maintenant la fluiditÃ© et la continuitÃ© dans les mouvements. Cette nouvelle dimension de lâ€™art chorÃ©graphique nous a sÃ©duits. Il contribuera indubitablement au renforcement des capacitÃ©s des danseurs de WalÃ´. Personnellement nous avons trouvÃ© la formation courte et espÃ©rons continuer ce genre de travail avec Erik.<br />
Rachelle AGBOSSOU</p>
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