Deep Cuts

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Deep Cuts

Choreographer Bryan Campbell presents a jubilant cycle of original songs set in a carpenter’s workshop. Sung, shouted or danced, the songs create a singular link with ecosystems.

Deep Cuts began with a walk in the forest, when Bryan Campbell found himself hitting a tree long and hard with a dead branch and feeling an intense mixture of joy and anger. These are familiar sensations – which take him back to his practice of BDSM, a sadomasochistic experience between consenting adults in which love and violence are intertwined – that the France-based American choreographer decided to sing and dance. His piece takes the form of a cycle of melodies, imagined as a 21^st-century pastoral, a reactivation of this bucolic form that was revived in the Romantic period, when the industrial revolution called into question the exploitation of resources. With a pair of gloves at hand, gardening and DIY tools, saws and axes, a hammer and a plane, Bryan Campbell manipulates wood and binds together songs that are often funny, sometimes melancholy, dancing and telling (his)story in the same breath.

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Cast

Concept & performance Bryan Campbell Light & staging Bruno Faucher Sound composer Aria de la Celle Guitar composer Geoffrey Le Goaziou Staging assistant Léa Rivière General direction Géraldine Michel Creative assistant Oscar Houtin Latin translation by Marion Dapsens Filming Foxie 2000, Gaëtan Rusquet With music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonie No. 6 Op. 68, Simon Rattle and the Wiener Philharmoniker ; Carl Orff, “In Trutina” ; Franz Liszt, “Années de Pèlerinage : 1^ère Année : Suisse,” Alfred Brendel Duration 90 minutes

Thank you to Katerina Andreou, Sandrine Barrasso, Florence Diry, Sophie Guisset, Madeleine Samain

Coproduction: Les SUBS – lieu vivant d’expériences artistiques, Lyon; Montpellier Danse, within the framework of the Agora residency, cité internationale de la danse, with the support of Fondation BNP Paribas; Pôle-Sud CDCN – Strasbourg ; NEXT Festival. With the support of DRAC Ile-de-France within the “aide au projet chorégraphique” program. Studios were made available by and in: Cndc-Angers ; Atelier des Marches / Le Bouscat ; Le Pacifique CDCN Grenoble – Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes ; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne ; CN D Centre national de la danse Pantin ; La Place de la danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie ; Buda Kunstencentrum ; Ballet du Nord CCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France ; Le Carreau du Temple ; La Ménagerie de Verre, Les Bazis (09).