Conception: Boris

Charmatz

20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle

How to dance in a library? In a lobby? How to dance in a public space, a reading room, a walkway, without losing oneself in it? How to make the dancing body visible among other bodies in transit? The Dancing Museum has chosen to foster teaching and dissemination by way of a panorama of twentieth-century dance. Performers with diverse backgrounds and from different generations take over the hallways, rooms, and stairways of institutions of learning, appropriating and exhibiting some of the landmark solos of the twentieth century. As they stroll around, the audience may come across these strange visitors in motion dispersed around the building: they might discover a Merce Cunningham solo or a dance by Isadora Duncan, allowing everyone to build, each in his own way, a living, non-linear archive of dance in which they may forget themselves, pause, wander from echo to echo, from gesture to gesture…

In 2020, for the purposes of the Théâtre du Châtelet edition, Boris Charmatz seeks to go beyond the limits of the 20th century in order to burst in upon our present, and to add a chapter to this history in the making : 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more...

Current Events

20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more
Opera House WuppertalWuppertal
25.04., 26.04., 27.04.2025
Presale: 28.02.2025, 10:00
20 danseurs pour le XXe siècle 20 danseurs pour le

Deputy Director

Hélène Joly

Stage Management

Mathieu Morel

Renaud L’Espagnol

Sacha D’Enfert

Director of productions

Lucas Chardon

Martina Hochmuth

Production commissioner

Jessica Crasnier

Briac Geffrault

Interpretation

A group of dancers and perfomers is set up at each new version of the project.

Production / distribution

Terrain A production of the Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne (2012)

Participation in the project since 2012

Germaine Acogny, Mithkal Alzghair, Anémone Arnaud, Pascal Aubin, Laura Bachman, Caroline Bance, Fabian Barba, Eleanor Bauer, Nadia Beugré, Nuno Bizarro, Boglárka Börcsök, Marie-Solène Boulet, Magali Caillet-Gajan, Varinia Canto Vila, Alessio Carbone, Alexandra Cardinale, Florian Caron, François Chaignaud, Dimitri Chamblas, Boris Charmatz, Jean-Baptiste Chavignier, Ruth Childs, Julia Cogan, Pat Catterson, Ashley Chen, Julia Cogan, Julie Cunningham, Sonia Darbois, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Sara De Roo, Noëmie Djiniadhis, Matthieu Doze, Olga Dukhovnaya, Colin Dunne, Jacquelyn Elder, Tim Etchells, Eduardo Ricardo Fernandes aka Dominant Nemak, João Fiadeiro,Jim Fletcher, Antonia Franceschi, Bryana Fritz, Grégory Gaillard, Letizia Galloni, Nestor Garcia Diaz, Marion Gautier de Charnacé, Françoise Gazio, Yves-Noël Genod, Brennan Gerard, Juliette Gernez, Marie Goudot, Olivia Grandville, Peggy Grelat-Dupont, Sylvain Groud, Dmitry Gutov, Christophe Haleb, Trajal Harrell, , Reinhild Hoffmann, Emmanuelle Huynh, Mette Ingvartsen, Alain Irie aka Alaingo, Mai Ishiwata, Janez Janša, Dai Jian, Burr Johnson, Tatiana Julien, Lénio Kaklea, Myriam Kamionka, Latifa Laâbissi, Laurence Laffon, La Ribot, I-Fang Lin, Matej Keižar, Benoît Lachambre, Samuel Lefeuvre, Johanna Elisa Lemke, Catherine Legrand, , I-Fang Lin, Kiko Lòpez Juan, Mark Lorimer, Filipe Lourenço, Morgan Lugo, Mackenzy, Allister Madin, Ioannis Mandafounis, Vera Mantero, Jérôme Marin, Julie Martel, Fabrice Mazliah, Mathilde Monnier, Bernardo Montet, Julien Monty, Richard Move, Mani A. Mungai, Alex Mugler, Samuel Murez, Ko Murobushi, Lasseindra Ninja, Banu Ogan, Caroline Osmont, Chrysa Parkinson, Sofia Parcen, Benjamin Pech, Olga Pericet, Katia Petrowick, Sonja Pregrad, Leiomy Prodigy, Annabelle Pulcini, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Fabrice Ramalingom, Pierre Rétif, Christopher Roman, Stéphanie Romberg, Djino Alolo Sabin, Yann Saïz, Marlène Saldana, Sònia Sánchez, Salia Sanou, Manon Santkin, Cristina Saso, Elisabeth Schwartz, Frédéric Seguette, Karine Seneca, Shelley Senter, Valda Setterfield, Julie Shanahan, Yasutake Shimaji, Big Shush, Thomas Simon, Gus Solomons, John Sorensen-Jolink, Meg Stuart, Asha Thomas, Mark Tompkins, Claudia Triozzi, Roberte Tual (whose dance was transmitted by Brigitte Chataignier), Le Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rennes (with teachers Sylvain Richard, Florence Tissier and students Arthur Debroise, Lucie Delachaume, Romane Morvan-Lemaire, Fanny Paris, Ariane Tissier), Francesco Vantaggio, Javier Vaquero Ollero, Hugo Vigliotti, Sven Walser, Julian Weber, Adam Weinert, Thomas Wodianka

World-Premiere

4 Nov 2012, Les Champs Libres, Rennes

Duration

approx. 3h to 5h

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Guest performances

  • Rennes

  • New York

  • Berlin

  • London

  • Paris

  • Hannover

  • Madrid

  • Vitry-sur-Seine

  • Lorient

  • Brest

  • Barcelona

  • Valencia

  • Marseille

  • Zurich

  • Paris

  • Milan

    2021

  • Lille

    2021

  • Brussels

    2022

  • Metz

    2022