The choreographers Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud are experts at bringing together and composing with different dance styles that are deeply rooted in specific cultures.  In their latest work ›DFS‹, a continuation on ›Dancehall Polyphony‹ which was a commission for the TanzTheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, they create a very special kind of culture clash by confronting Georgian vocal polyphony with Jamaican Dancehall music which has its origins in the urban ghettos of Kingston and remains to this day an expression of opposition against repressive ideologies. The result is an intricately detailed composition that builds on the synchronism of polyphonic a cappella songs and folk dances and subtly unites the expressive possibilities, energies, sounds and physicalities of two completely different cultural languages in new and unforeseen dialogues.

PACT-PAKET FOR STUDENTS: DANCEHALL WORKSHOP ON SAT 01.07., 12—14 H

Conception: Cecilia Bengolea,François Chaignaud
 Choreographic collaboration: Damion BG Dancerz, Joan Mendy
 Performers: Cecilia Bengolea, Damion BG Dancerz, François Chaignaud, Valeria Lanzara, Erika Miyauchi, Joan Mendy, Shihya Peng
 Vocal coaches: Cécile Banquey, Baptiste Chopin, Alix Debaecker, Eugénie de Mey, Marie Picaut, Celia Stroom
 Technical manager, lighting design, dramaturgy collaboration: Jean-Marc Segalen
 Video: Giddy Elite Team
 Sound mix: Clément Bernerd
 Costumes – Conception: Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud Costume realization: Méryl Coster, Florence Demingeon, France Lorenzi
 Administration/Production: Anne Reungoat, Jeanne Lefèvre, Céline Peychet
 Tour planning: Sarah De Ganck / Art Happens Production: Vlovajob Pru supported by: DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Conseil Régional Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Conseil Régional Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Institut français, Institut français Lyon, Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy (residency for DFS) Co-production: INTERREG, France-Switzerland 2014-2020, Club Création Entreprises Annecy, l’Echangeur–CDC Hauts-de-France,
Biennale de la Danse de Lyon 2016, Festival d’Automne (Paris)/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou,
Opéra de Lille, deSingel (Antwerp), Salder's Wells (London), CCN2–Grenoble (Accueil Studio), CDC Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées, CNDC–Angers (Accueil Studio), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Gessnerallee (Zürich), La Pop (Paris)

Support: Institut Français Paris (2014–2015), FIACRE Fonds d’Innovation Artistique et Culturelle en Auvergne-
Rhône-Alpes (2015), Ménagerie de verre Paris (Studiolab), CND Pantin Thanks to the Jamaican dancers who accompanied the creation of DFS: Dancing Rebel, Giddy Elite Team, Nicky Trice Rifical Team, O'shean & Suns French Squad and Rudey Legacy; and to Mélodie France, Geoffroy Jourdain (les Cris de Paris), Elodie Tessier

François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea are Associate Artists at Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy.

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