Cecilia Bengolea / François Chaignaud

Castor et Pollux

Archive 2011
Dance

Castor et Pollux
Design, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea
Light, Eric Wurtz
Sound, Jean-Michel Olivares
Costumes and harness, Marino Commercial, Babeth Martin, Jean Malo
Collaboration Dramaturgy, Joris Lacoste
Flight, Marc Bizet
Stand-by, Rosalie Tsai
With Yann Kermarrec, Jean-Michel Olivares, Jean-Marc Segalen, François Chaignaud, Chloé Gazave, Cecilia Bengolea
Coproduction Quartz - National scene of Brest; Festival Montpellier Dances; The Whiting - National scene of Marseilles; The Menagerie de Verre(Paris); National Choreographic center Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon; Garden of Europe - Imagetanz/gross Wien; Theatre of Vanves
Corealisation Theatre of Gennevilliers, centers dramatic national of contemporary creation; Festival d'Automne à  Paris
Thanks with all the team of Quartz
The project profited from a reception with the CENTQUATRE - Paris and Djerassi Artists Residency Program (San Francisco) and support from the Consulate from France for San Francisco.
VLOVAJOB PRU is subsidized by the DRAC Poitou-Charentes and receives the assistance of the French Institute for its projects abroad.
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud are Associated Artists with the Menagerie de Verre (Paris).
With the support of Adami
Premiered at the Quartz - Festival Antipodes' 10 on March 2, 2010

A programme of “free dances” of François Malkovsky by François Chaignaud, Cecilia Bengolea and 3 other dancers will be presented Saturday September 17 to the Kitchen garden of the King (Balbi Park, Versailles), within the framework of the Plastique festival Dances Flora (www.plastiquedanseflore.com).

Bengolea and Chaignaud’s third creation explores the limits of heroism in an adaptation of the Greek myth of Castor and Pollux – the story of twins’ inequality towards death. The dialectics of rise and fall, central to the piece, is materialized on stage thanks to a complex mechanism of slings and pulleys. It is also a hint at the gods’ power over men’s destiny.

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