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The company : brotherly tandem<\/span><\/h5>[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1633011806560{padding-bottom: 32px !important;}”]For more than twenty years, the Ben A\u00efm brothers, Christian and Fran\u00e7ois, have developed a rich body of work abounding in poetry and high standards, interlaced with a brotherly bond and singularity.<\/p>\n

In the wake of their cross-disciplinary training in dance, physical theatre and circus arts, each one followed their own career as performers. In 1997, the brothers joined forces to create \u00c0 l\u2019abri du regard des hommes, avant d\u2019aller mourir ailleurs<\/em>, a hybrid performance in dance and theatre, thus embarking on a partnership that would lead to some twenty original pieces, deeply rooted in their grassroots work while also being produced abroad.<\/p>\n

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Some pieces in a career path<\/span><\/h5>[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1633011865303{padding-bottom: 32px !important;}”]Following in the same vein as \u00c0 l\u2019abri du regard des hommes, avant d\u2019aller mourir ailleurs<\/em> came La Frontera<\/em> and Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut encore changer<\/em>, with a style of dance that is not without a sense of humour and containing elements full of surprise. Other signature pieces include the diptych inspired by the work of Bernard-Marie Kolt\u00e8s, Carcasses, un \u0153il pour deux<\/em> and En plein c\u0153ur<\/em> whose dancing bodies sublimate the text through the original scenography coupled with a bespoke musical creation.<\/p>\n

The Ogress of the Archives and her dog<\/em> (2011) plays fully on the intersection of different disciplines by blending dance, film, circus arts and live music. Waltz in three-quarter time<\/em>, for its part, rendered as a solo, duo and trio piece, flirts with minimalism while rubbing shoulders with the three very distinct musical worlds of jazz, classic and off-the-wall rock.<\/p>\n

Christian and Fran\u00e7ois have also focused on the younger audience through the prism of nature, by creating The Dense Forest <\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(2013), which gracefully and gently paints the world of childhood, and Mirages <\/em>\u2014 Boreal Souls<\/em> (2018), an immersive fable of anticipation set in the icy expanses of the Far North. In these pieces, video, a source of shadow and light, creates movement and illusion through transparency, images thus finding themselves transfigured as though a poetic extension of the choreography itself.<\/p>\n

The new pieces confirm the essential role live music plays in their work, bringing together dancers and musicians on stage to perform original compositions. Live music is especially showcased in The Lightness of Storms<\/em> (2014), an invitation to observe this boundless energy that is desire, with three cellists and a singer. Inhabited, Uninhabited <\/em>(2016) displays an almost bestial dance with a backdrop of spectacular scenography, in a throbbing craze infused by a guitar\/bass-drum duo. Lastly, Burn, Rebellious Hearts<\/em> (2017), which vigorously questions brotherhood and insubordination in a society ridden with determined violence, is borne by the musical score of Ibrahim Maalouf, forcefully underpinning the narrative.<\/p>\n

With the performances Snapshots<\/em>, a series of female solos (2018-) that display a dialogue between the intimate, the relationship with the self, and taunted external forces, and Arise<\/em> (2019), devised in collaboration with the singer-songwriter-composer Piers Faccini in the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris, music forms a bond between dance, prestigious heritage sites or unconventional venues and in-situ itineraries. These pieces reveal a suspended and bewitching dimension of the brothers\u2019 work.<\/p>\n

Lastly, JESTS <\/em>(2021, FAC\u00c9TIES<\/em> in French), plays with the codes of normality and questions the role of humour in choreographic writing. Exploration of what is human continues through a new filter: that of the comic.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″ rc_bg_type=”color” column_sticky=”yes” tablet_sm_width=”1″ column_sticky_offset=”80″ rc_bg_color=”#f9f9f9″ grve_css=”{“desktop“:{“padding-top“:“24“,“padding-right“:“24“,“padding-bottom“:“24“,“padding-left“:“24“,“class“:“grve-wpb-1631960559220“}}”]

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2022<\/td>Snapshots #3<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021<\/td>Jests<\/a>
\nThe senseless community<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>Arise<\/a>
\nSnapshots #2<\/a>
\nVibrations<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>Mirages \u2013 boreal souls<\/a>
\nSnapshots #1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>Burn, rebellious hearts<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>Inhabited, uninhabited<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014<\/td>The Lightness of Storms<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>The dense forest<\/a>
\nL\u2019or\u00e9e des visages<\/a>
\nKarma<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>The Ogress of the Archives and her dog<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>Waltz in three-quarter time<\/a>
\nR\u00e9sistance au droit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>Louves<\/a>
\nAmor fati fati amor<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>Bird \/ You\u2019re a bird, now!<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>En plein coeur<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>Carcasses, un oeil pour deux<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>Ne vous fiez pas au titre, il peut changer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2001<\/td>\u00d4 my brother!<\/a>
\nLa Frontera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999<\/td>Un homme en marche<\/a>
\nL\u2019enfant du miroir<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1998<\/td>L\u2019homme rapaill\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997<\/td>A l\u2019abri du regard des hommes, avant d\u2019aller mourir ailleurs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n[\/vc_column_text]
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