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

The Biennale FringeOpening Concert bythe Orchestre National de LyonAuditorium de LyonThe ONL plays host to dance in this vivacious, Spanish-flavoured bill.Featuring Miguel Ángel Berna, who has reinvented the choreographyof the traditional Aragon jota; and Úrsula López, principal ballerinawith the Ballet Nacional de España, who is equally comfortablewith the purest flamenco and the bolero school. Accompanyingworks by Chabrier, Falla and Rimsky-Korsakov will alternate withorchestra-only pieces; and the acrobatic Tzigane and Bohemian Airswill be brilliantly played by a young Japanese who is little known inFrance but adulated in the United Kingdom and her home country.Friday 26 September at 8.30pmChabrier, España Ravel / TziganeFalla Ritual Fire Dance, from Lovethe Magician Sarasate BohemianAirs for Violin and Orchestra Rimsky-KorsakovSpanish Caprice FallaExcerpts from The Three-CorneredHat (suite nos. 1 and 2) Bizet Carmen(suite no. 2)Carte-blancheLe Toboggan - DecinesAt the Toboggan, on every Biennale performance evening, from7.30pm to 8pm, students from Lyon’s Conservatoire National Supérieurde Musique et Danse will present a carte blanche selection ofchoreography: duets or trios, classical or contemporary. The slot willalso include demonstrative dances.To coincide with Carolyn Carlson’s presence at Le Toboggan, CinéToboggan is running three special film evenings on: documentaries,Finnish directors, carte blanche.Enquiries:Le Toboggan+33 (0)4 72 93 30 00www.letoboggan.comAkiko Suwanai, violin / ÚrsulaLópez and Miguel Ángel Berna,dancers / Jun Märkl, conductorContact :Auditorium04 78 95 95 95www.auditoriumlyon.comItinéraires Bis:dance detoursThe Itinéraires Bis programme features organisations that areoffering fresh choreographic moments in parallel to the Biennale –different projects and venues, but the same desire to share specialexperiences around dance. Presentations of emerging companies,choreographic brunches, dance film screenings, professional classes,soirées for amateurs… You can choose various combinations ofshows, platform events and workshops.To extend your choreographic journey, follow the Itinéraires Bissigns!Le CroiseurDuring the Biennale, cross-disciplinaryvenue Le Croiseur is offering Lyonaudiences a sampler of the choreographicworks it will be hostingthrough the season. Discover thecreativity of 10 new artists.From 9 to 27 September,Scène-Découvertes Croiseur / Gerlandenscène !This cultural association, tasked withpromoting live performance withinthe ENS-LSH graduate school, isrunning a weekly dance film eveningin September. Three films about transmissionwill be screened at ThéâtreKantor; and during the Cithémuses,an annual festival for young creators,one of the films will be paired with anew work in a double bill.Studio LucienSince spring 2004, CompagniePropos/Denis Plassard has had itsown base: Studio Lucien. During theBiennale, it will run classes for professionaldancers and a festive eveningevent in the form of a choreographedball for pro and amateur dancers.For more details: www.itineraires-bis.comTDMITDMI Théâtre ChorégraphiqueContemporain is hosting 20 companiesas part of the Biennale. Theprogramme “Un départ tous les 1/4d’heure” centres on small piecesstemming from encounters betweenchoreographers, video artists andperformers.Toï ToïToï Toï, a venue for creating anddisseminating dance and music, isorganising brunch every Sunday at11am during the Biennale, followedby a dance show by one of its residentcompanies.Lyon Septembre de la photographie 2008du 15 septembre au 31 octobreIDENTITE(s)Curator: Gilles VerneretThe issue of identity/ies is at the centre of any approach to geopolitics and art. It is sufficiently wide-ranging to allow a fascinating arrayof propositions.“Lyon Septembre de la photographie 2008” has chosen for its fifth edition to focus on Europe, exploring the origins of its identitythrough the practices of image-makers with creative documentary approaches, who patiently strive to reduce the schism in our perspective:on one side, the outer world with its sociological components; and on the other, inner subjectivity charged with poetry.Our purpose? To gradually nurture interaction with image-hungry publics. What they seek is not empty communication but far-reachinginvestigations of the world we live in... These investigations reflect the shift from the photography of identity, common to all, to theidentity of photography, specific to each of us.Event opening: Tuesday 16 September, Dôme de l’Hôtel DieuVenue openings: from 15 to 21 SeptemberRelated platform events at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, 17-19 SeptemberFor more details: www.lebleuduciel.net101