Lou
A COMMAND FROM COMPAGNIE FÊTES GALANTES - BÉATRICE MASSIN (2018)
For the opening of La Fabrique des Ecritures Baroques and 25 years after the creation of compagnie Fêtes Galantes, Béatrice Massin, specialist and choreographer in baroque dance among others, asked me to create a choreographic portrait of Lou Cantor, a performer who has been involved in her work for several years. I had already had the opportunity to see her dancing, we had already crossed each other paths, but I ignored almost everything about her career. There is also a filiation between Béatrice Massin and Lou Cantor which, to me, seems to be a central element.
I had the desire to approach with Lou and through the repertoire she has gone through, her experience of the body, her relationship to movement and to heritage, through her words. It's not a history of baroque dance but her history, with all the subjectivity that it implies.
-- Mickaël Phelippeau
Lou was created in parallel with the quartet Prétexte, signed by Béatrice Massin, on march 7 2018 at Le POC - Pôle culturel d'Alfortville. These two pieces constitute the 4-1 project.
A COMMAND FROM COMPAGNIE FÊTES GALANTES - BÉATRICE MASSIN
a choreographic piece by Mickaël Phelippeau
performance Lou Cantor
songs
Lully - Extraits des Folies d’Espagne
Lully - Air pour Madame la Dauphine
Rachmaninov - Extraits de Folia variations sur un thème de Corelli
light and stage design Abigail Fowler
costumes Clémentine Monsaingeon
light design assistant & stage manager Thierry Charlier
sound Emmanuel Nappey
executive production Fêtes Galantes
coproduction bi-p association, Théâtre Paul Eluard, Bezons dans le cadre de la résidence artistique 2017-2018
in collaboration with le POC d’Alfortville
with the support of Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val-de-Marne - La Briqueterie
aide à la création of Conseil Départemental du Val-de-Marne
acknowlegmentsbi-p association / Mickaël Phelippeau, Philippe Cantor
photo crédits Mickaël Phelippeau & Patrick Cockpit / Hans Lucas
Lou teaser from Mickaël Phelippeau on Vimeo.
Creation 2018
2018
Le POC, Alfortville, FR - premiere
Théâtre Paul Eluard (TPE), Bezons, FR
Théâtre de la Nacelle, Aubergenville, FR
Maison des Arts et Loisir de Laon, in the frame of festival C'est comme ça ! by L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, FR
L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, in the frame of festival C’est comme ça !, FR
2019
Théâtre Gérard Philippe, Champigny-sur-Marne, FR
Le Vivat - scène conventionnée d'intérêt national art et création, in the frame of Vivat la danse !, Armentières, FR
La Méridienne, scène conventionnée de Lunéville, FR
Abbaye de Maubuisson, in collaboration with TPE de Bezons, FR
Atelier de Paris, June Events, FR
LA BELLE SCÈNE SAINT DENIS, co-organized by Théâtre Louis Aragon of Tremblay-en-France and Théâtre Gérard Philipe de Saint-Denis, Festival d'Avignon OFF, FR