Interview of the artists of the Cie Bleu Printemps in residence to work on their show “900 something Days Spent in the XXth Century” last December on the 14th and the 18th.
900 something Days is not designed for a specific place, but for a plurality of potential spaces. We start by looking for a urban and/or an industrial space, whether abandoned or already reclaimed: storing and loading warehouses, parking places and factories, docks... Unlike the theater scenic layout that is dreamed as a blank canvas, all these places are charged historically, politically, operationally. They have in common that they were not designed to accommodate choreography. If we are drawn to the architectural ruins of theses spaces, it’s because their remains offer us new resources to which the dancing can be confronted. We extend the traces and echoes of all the bodies – human or not – that have worked (in) this place before us.
Némo Flouret is a choreographic artist, dancer, performer, choreograph, graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris, and from the Brussels school P.A.R.T.S. His choreographic work is generally part of hybrid spaces, outside the theaters. The universe he builds invites to question the different definitions of spaces. Using the text, the visual art and the societal and political context as a potential entry door in the choreography. Over the last years, Némo Flouret has created various projects for the stage, among which Guerrassimenko, (play for 4 actors) - 2016 ; La nuit juste avant les Forêts (solo) - 2016 ; Yes Master (trio in collaboration with Fouad Nafili and Lydia Mcglinchey) - 2017 ; 900 Something Days Spent in the XXth Century (research workshop for 10 actors) - 2018 ; and Ce que nous avons trouvé dans la Solitude (duo in collaboration with Synne Elve Enoksen) and Inside/Outside (solo) - 2019.
He also collaborates with and interprets the work of various artists, such as: Ingrid Berger Myhre, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Liz Kinoshita and David Wampach. In 2018, he founded a research, creation, diffusion and choreographic development platform established in the Center region, named Bleu Printemps Production with Solène Wachter and Georges Labbat, supported by the Centre Chorégraphique National of Orléans.