Continuing with the artistic approach that underpinned his work as both choreographer and successful director of the Saint-Denis Dance Festival, Pascal Montrouge has just been appointed director of the Théâtres départementaux in La Réunion (the Théâtre de Champ Fleuri in Saint-Denis and the open-air theatre in Saint-Gilles).
Montrouge’s proposal, presented to the Conseil général (local council) of La Réunion, was chosen for its strong artistic and administrative credentials.
The focus of the proposal is to broaden the audience by placing artistic creation at the centre of a new relationship with the general public, to promote art and culture in La Réunion by encouraging a spirit of openness to the world at large, and to foster ongoing partnerships and exchanges with local, regional and international cultural networks.
At the Théâtre des Hivernales in Avignon, 10 to 26 July 2009 at 5 pm (no performances on 15 & 21 July).
In Superman et Moi, Pascal Montrouge’s latest piece for eight dancers from Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and France, the choreographer uses nuances of dissimilarity to underline the richness of diversity.
Following on from Os, a piece on the theme of exodus and exoticism, Superman et Moi continues to explore what it is to be different.
The piece entitled Os, first performed in 2007, was presented in May 2009 at the Central Asian Contemporary Dance Festival in Almaty, the cultural capital of Kazakhstan.
The Pascal Montrouge company is the only European guest at this international festival mainly devoted to Central Asian dance.
This tour receives support from the French embassy in Kazakhstan.
L’histoire des enfants des voisins d’â côté, an initiation to contemporary dance first performed in 2002, continues to tour in France and around the world.
After a series of performances in May 2009 in Zimbabwe at the Harare International Festival of Arts, it will play in La Réunion from 29 July to 1 August at the Théâtre Universitaire Canter in Saint-Denis and the Théâtre Guy Alphonsine in Saint-André.
The next performances in the Northern Hemisphere will be on 9 August at the Château de La Tour d’Aigues in the Lubéron (southern France).
Philippe Verrièle, historian and journalist about dance, has just published at the Editions Noÿs a book in french unseen about "the question of the choreographer by way of Pascal Montrouge".
The choreographer status is ever the topic of the current dance. If the presence of the choregrapher is now knowing, the nature of his intervention remains to be submit at questions.
How is someone become choreographer, and why ?
