2min

Performance

Mutant Stage 10

In this final episode of the Mutant Stage series, shot in the recently completed 9 rue du Plâtre building, filmmaker Barnaby Roper plays with the intertwining perspectives and movements of eight dancers.

Barnaby Roper's work blurs the boundaries between commercial filmmaking and fine art. His knack for combining live action footage with groundbreaking post production techniques and rattling sound design sets him apart from his peers, and puts him on the bleeding edge of moving image production across all disciplines, from interactive videos, to installations, and everything in between.

Barnaby Roper completed a degree in graphical art at Central Saint Martins with first-degree honors. He immediately began working as a director, and has since become one of the most renowned names in fashion film, music videos, commercials and photography. Barnaby Roper has collaborated with Kanye West, David Bowie, and Banks on groundbreaking editorial projects and music videos, and has directed commercials for clients including Nike, Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Hugo Boss, L'Oréal, Karl Lagarfeld and Victor & Rolf.

Amélie Coster is an independent curator, performance programmer and producer.



She has worked at the Festival d'Avignon (1997-2000), at the Edna association - created by dancers and choreographers Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas - (2000-2003), at the Parc de La Villette (2003-2008) and at Vivarium Studio with Philippe Quesne (2009-2011). She then initiates and programmes projects at the crossroads of the visual and performing arts by developing her own structure, Casoar (2012).

She thus collaborates with numerous artists, institutions and private partners. She is co-curator with Dimitri Chamblas of the exhibition 3e scène - Opéra national de Paris / Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture in 2016. She prepared with the curator Emilie Girard the exhibition On danse? presented at the MuCEM from January to May 2019. She has also designed an artistic programme aimed at very young children (0-3 years) for the Crèches de France group. She is currently collaborating on a documentary series on international choreographers, and on some of the actions carried out by PERU, a research laboratory on contemporary forms of hospitality.