Retour en Avant / Past Forward Biennale de la Danse Lyon - France

Marcos Dos SantosLes gens de l’avenir“A man walks from Rajasthan to Andalucia.He meets many people along the way, andexperiences thriving cultures. During thisvibrantly colourful and musical journey ofdiscovery, he builds enriching bonds thathelp a new identity to flourish. He weavesnew dreams in which humanist messagesabout living together combine with imagesof a solidarity-led society open on theworld. This parade tells his story: how ahuman and geographic adventure can helpto shape tomorrow’s people and write thelegends of the future.”Lyon 9 ème , Dardilly, EcullyMJC Duchère04 78 35 39 21contact@mjcduchere.orgBlandine Basile / Cie DésobliqueEolitic“Legends have a duty to be wonderful– such is the power that the imaginativerealm exerts over reality. Eolitic is a legendof tomorrow, it leads us into the ageof the wind and elements. Our distantdescendants, who have overdevelopedsenses and live at one with nature, travelback in time to set us dreaming about awiser and more harmonious future, in whichhumankind once again evolves in concertwith evolution of the world around us.”MeyzieuVille de Meyzieu04 72 45 16 75culture@mairie-meyzieu.frCarla Frison / Cie Aqui et laDe la naissance de la Terre àl’avenir de l’Homme“Timeless tales takes us travelling fromthe Big Bang to the future, and touch onthe four elements, the evolution of Man,encounters with the Other, and the birth oflight and darkness. Each group experimentswith transformation and evolution. Time –which begins again eternally – becomes aloop, and interactions with the public createthe future by assembling all the participantsinto one voice.”Rillieux-la-PapeMJC O’Totem04 78 88 94 88info@mjcrillieux.comWindship Boyd-ColyADN : Accouche et Danse àNouveau“In ADN, the choreographer stagesa journey in the mother’s belly thataddresses universal themes.The group is in turns a genderattribute, a cell and a heartbeat –throbbing life. Fertility is treated as agreat moment of humanity renewed, aeulogy to our mothers, who perpetuatecycles and recreate the world with theirflesh. By rendering the conception of life indance, the group creates the pulsation ofa new, embryonic being that suggests ourown nascent legends.”Vaulx-en-Velin et Sainte Foy-les-LyonMediactif04 78 80 22 61ec.espacecarco@mediactif.orgFatiha BouinoualSoma, Soma ?“The Vénissieux group’s parade, freelyinspired by Huxley’s Brave New World,presents the metaphor of a society inwhich Man’s human parts are methodicallyerased. Is this vision of the future alreadypresent or merely the stuff of legends? Inan intimate weave of choreography, voice,and vocal and body percussion, this paradeexplores our human condition. In a worldof shopping trolleys and clones, maybethe best of it is elsewhere, deep in eachindividual’s intimacy and on the horizon ofa better life together.”VénissieuxCentre associatif Boris Vian04 72 50 09 16contact@cabv.comBouba Landrille Tchouda /Cie MalkaOn ne peut pas savoir où l’on va, sil’on ne sait pas d’où l’on vient“Like the leitmotiv of a popular rhapsody,the Villeurbanne parade centres on an idea:There’s no way of knowing where we’regoing if we don’t know where we comefrom. Fleeting portraits of communities andindividual memories fuse into one pillar,the backbone of humankind – a fund ofcollective recollections and symbols to bedisplayed, dismantled and adapted into thisdance of time.”VilleurbanneCentre Culturel Œcuménique Jean-PierreLachaize04 78 93 41 44defile@cco-villeurbanne.orgScènes arts 2 rue Mano AmaroOmbres et lumières“Ombres et lumières tells the story of Riode Janeiro’s carnival and its samba schools,from the 1940s to the present day. We paytribute to Natal, who gained official statusfor the first carnival parade in Rio, and tothe cities of Rio and Lyon. We’re going tocreate a samba school and stage a properCarioca-style parade and get spectatorssinging a traditional samba, like all theschools do in Brazil. Lyon has been inspiredby Rio’s carnival, and we want to thank thepeople of Lyon with our parade.”Scènes arts 2 rue04 72 00 87 16 / 06 28 27 07 10scenesarts2rue@yahoo.fr93