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Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée

Musée de la danse – Filminstallation in Museum Folkwang

  • © Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié
    Levée, Filmstill Halde Haniel, Bottrop, Ruhrtriennale 2013
    (c) Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié

Levée is like a labyrinth, based on 25 simultaneous gestures that are impossible to capture in a single look. Instead of trying to capture something of this experience using a camera, the film refuses all classification and oscillates between art, documentary, and dance film. Inspired by the cratered landscape of Halde Haniel, choreographer Boris Charmatz and filmmaker César Vayssié decided to create a film based on Ruhrtriennale´s the last year’s performance Levée des conflits.

Levée tosses dance onto unfamiliar terrain, in a no man’s land between science fiction and anthropology. Like refugees in the midst of an unreal landscape, the dancers are devoured by an entropic maelstrom, an accelerator of sensation: as if seen through a magnifying glass, exhaustion, repetition, and the bitter struggle among the dancers culminates in a chaotic knot of bodies. The camera makes its way through the dense dust, until the center of the crowd, where it encounters fragments of a strange ceremony that only seems to have the purpose of enclosing shapes and forces. What do we see? Is it a ritual, a flash mob, a group of miners, or a fleeting monument that can only be seen from the sky? The camera disappears in chaos, to then make the events visible from a vantage point: it leaps from sweat to structure, providing us with a vague notion of the organic and mathematical machine that Boris Charmatz has created.

A film by —
Boris Charmatz, César Vayssié

Shows

Location
— Museum Folkwang, Essen
Dates
— 16. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. August 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 23. 24. September
world premiere
Entrance free
August
  • Sat16Aug
    12.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 16. August 2014 at 12.00 PM
    Entrance free
  • Sun17Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 17. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Tue19Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 19. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Wed20Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 20. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Thu21Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 21. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Fri22Aug
    10.00 - 22.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 22. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sat23Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 23. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sun24Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 24. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Tue26Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 26. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Wed27Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 27. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Thu28Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 28. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Fri29Aug
    10.00 - 22.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 29. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sat30Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 30. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sun31Aug
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 31. August 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
September
  • Tue 2Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 2. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Wed 3Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 3. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Thu 4Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 4. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Fri 5Sep
    10.00 - 22.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 5. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sat 6Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 6. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sun 7Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 7. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Tue 9Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 9. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Wed10Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 10. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Thu11Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 11. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Fri12Sep
    10.00 - 22.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 12. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sat13Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 13. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sun14Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 14. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Tue16Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 16. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Wed17Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 17. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Thu18Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 18. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Fri19Sep
    10.00 - 22.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 19. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sat20Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 20. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Sun21Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 21. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Tue23Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 23. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free
  • Wed24Sep
    10.00 - 18.00
    Boris Charmatz / César Vayssié: Levée on 24. September 2014 at 10.00 AM
    Entrance free

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A production by Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne in coproduction with Same Art. Presented by Ruhrtriennale in cooperation with Museum Folkwang.