Warm Up Session Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon
Sunday 15 Dec 2019 from 3pm to 4:30pm
Free admission by reservation
With Alvaro Dule and Raúl Serrano, dancers from the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon
Whole-heartedly committed to the work and the style of Merce Cunningham, the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon presents three pieces recently entered into its repertoire, and performed during the Festival d'Automne à Paris.
Recommended to wear comfortable clothes to move in, open to all.
Warm Up Sessions : a training for the body and mind. From jumpstyle to ballet, from break dance to contemporary, practice then discuss the indispensable movements and gestures that anticipate a performance - the ultimate moment of sharing with an audience. Each Session will begin with a warm up led by the invited dancer or collective, and will be followed by a discussion on themes bridging body movements and social realities : the performativity of the human condition, circulations and physical disruptions in a decorporalized era. With the Warm Up Sessions, we aspire to associate bodily effort with mindful effervescence.
A series curated by Madeleine Planeix-Crocker.
Madeleine is also co-director of the "Troubles, Alliances et Esthétiques" Chair at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and a permanent member of the Scientific Research Council of the ESAD, Reims.
A graduate of Princeton University in cultural studies, Madeleine earned a Master's degree in Media, Art and Creation from HEC Paris and a Master's degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). There she led an arts-based research-action project with Women Safe non-profit, where she now facilitates a theater and creative writing workshop. Madeleine is currently a PhD candidate at the EHESS (CRAL), studying practices for commoning in contemporary performance.
She has been practicing dance and theater since childhood.