From September 8 to 18, 2022, dance will be in all its forms in Biarritz. Indeed, to celebrate the end of summer, the seaside town on the Basque coast is in tune with choreographic art. 30 dance companies are programmed and 90 shows and events are planned in the public space and in the emblematic places of the city. The curious and visitors will be able to discover and/or learn regarding all forms of dance in the festival “Le temps d’Aimer la danse”. A festival that offers an eclectic programme, “generous, open to the world and passionate”, in the words of its
artistic director, Thierry Malandain.
During this festival “Le Temps d’Aimer la danse”, a new event called “Caribbean Focus / Basque Country” is offered from September 10 to 14, 2022. These include professional days bringing together around forty participants , including artists, programmers and professionals from Guadeloupe, Guyana and Martinique, who will exchange and share diagnoses, expertise, projects and recommendations during four workshops (training, creation, mobility, resources) on the theme “safeguarding and promoting dances Creoles and Basques, current issues and problems”. In this context, these days of study and research will present “crossed views around Creole and Basque quadrille dances”.
Traditional dances and music, dynamic identity markers of the Caribbean and the Basque country
The Caribbean, like the Basque Country, through the specificities of their territories, the complexity and richness of their cultures, their particular heritage, their resistance to standardization and their fight for their cultural rights, constitute fertile ground for artistic creation. of today. Traditional dances and music are “dynamic markers of identity” and reflect their cultural and historical particularities.
Organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry responsible for overseas territories, these professional days will highlight “the diversity of artistic approaches”, question “practices” and explore “their proximities inherited from traditional dances and their contemporary translations” in order to “create the conditions for a wider circulation of works and artists between these territories”.
Compagnie Difé Kako performing
However, this Caribbean/Basque Country Focus is not limited to these professional meetings and these days of study and research where, during round tables and other creation, training and transmission workshops, specialists, artists and professionals from the Basque, but also from the Antilles-Guyana such as Léna Blou, Guadeloupean dancer and choreographer, doctor in anthropology of dance and music, Isabelle Florenty, director of the Maison du Bèlè in Martinique, or Elise Kali, Martinican musician, accordionist and Doctor of Science, Robert Régina, dancer-performer, teacher of traditional dances from Martinique, Léo Lérus,
Guadeloupean dancer-choreographer, director of the Zémarel company, Laurent Troudart,
dancer choreographer and member of Kolectif 13 in Martinique… to name but a few.
This Caribbean Focus therefore also offers shows, practical Creole and Basque dance workshops, open stages, demonstrations of the quadrille in particular, as well as exhibitions and documentaries and even a ball. Thus, among the shows planned, the famous Difé Kako company directed by Guadeloupean choreographer Chantal Loïal will give a performance entitled “Cercle Egal Demi Cercle au Carré” at the Théâtre du Casino municipal and will host a “Bal Konser Déchaîné” at Plaza Berri at the end of evening.
Four days of shared views and sharing of experiences to measure together the place of this artistic expression in the identity process and the collective imagination of the inhabitants of these territories. Four days of reflection also to identify common positions, develop strategies and take initiatives to contribute to the dissemination of works and artists. A beautiful program in perspective.
Time to Love Dance
Focus Caribbean/Basque Country
Professional study and research days
From September 10 to 14, 2022
Midnight station
26 avenue Foch – Biarritz
Open to all, but prior registration at [email protected]
Tel: 06 77 98 08 70
www.letempsdaimer.com
