“What if a groundswell of optimism had already set in motion?
This piece is conceived as an attempt to revive an optimism that is running out of steam. By sounding out the younger generation, entrusting them with the task of defining their sources of inspiration, it seeks to thwart the apparent adversity of our tomorrows. Like the opening of a time capsule carefully composed throughout the creation process, the sharing of heterogeneous references gathered from young people in training serves as a stimulating artifact for choreographic writing.
The idea of measuring the scope of the displacement that trust in others implies is also reflected in each performance, which sees the opportunity to invite an up-and-coming choreographer to graft on an original impromptu. Under the impetus of these stimulating transplants, the score of dance motifs, in the manner of “combine painting”, takes hold of this collection of iconographic and sound fragments, like so many omens of the possible hues of what the future holds in store for us.
Emmanuel Eggermont
After training at the Centre national de danse contemporaine d'Angers, Emmanuel Eggermont made his debut as a dancer in Madrid with Carmen Werner. Fascinated by the discovery of other cultures, he also spent two years in South Korea, where he led a project combining teaching and choreography. This period - as well as his fifteen-year collaboration with Raimund Hoghe (Boléro Variations, Si je meurs laissez le balcon ouvert, L'Après-midi...) - left their mark on his work, instilling in him a taste for the essential, sincerity and humanity on stage. Today, as a legacy of this work, he has choreographed An Evening with Raimund (2021) and About Love and Death (2024), pieces that question heritage and filiation in the field of choreography.
Following a six-year research residency at L'L (an experimental performing arts research facility in Brussels), where he questioned his practice, Emmanuel Eggermont began developing his choreographic projects at L'Anthracite (Lille). His pieces have received national and European acclaim (Switzerland, Portugal, Germany...). They led to her being awarded the Beaumarchais-SACD grant and twice taking part in the In d'Avignon festival. With a tangible taste for the plastic arts and architecture, he deploys images with expressionist resonances, alongside abstract dance and performative tones. His three latest creations, Πόλις (Pólis), Aberration and All Over Nymphéas follow this artistic line and form a “chromato-choreographic” cycle. Monochromes and pictorial studies invite viewers to become aware of what lies invisibly within them, their buried history and the one superimposed on it. Emmanuel Eggermont was associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours (2019 - 2023). During this period, he began to reflect on the sustainability of artistic ideas, combining transmission and creation.
Studio’s opening: Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 7:30pm
Free on reservation: adriana.falcone@ccnr.fr
→ Emmanuel Eggermont will conduct the Sentir La Fibre workshop on Monday, February 10, 2025.
Premieres: September 2025 at La Biennale de la danse de Lyon
Concept & choreography : Emmanuel Eggermont
Artistic collaboration: Jihyé Jung
Guest artist: distribution en cours…
Music: Julien Lepreux & Leisurely T
Production & distribution: Sylvia Courty / Boom’Structur (Clermont-Ferrand)
Production administration: Violaine Kalouaz
Production: L’Anthracite
Coproduction: CCN de Tours, direction Thomas Lebrun, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Le Vivat d’Armentières, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Saine-Saint-Denis, CCN de Rilleux-la-Pape, direction Yuval Pick, La Maison de la Danse de Lyon, in progress…
Residencies: Boom’Structur (Clermont-Ferrand)
With the support of DRAC Hauts-de-France and Région Hauts-de-France
Photo © Jihyé Jung