31.10.2014 / 19:30 / WASP
work in progress presentation + feedback session
From her first solo, A l’endroit…, five years ago, Caroline Grosjean has been holding herself back from falling, traveling through different perceptions, paying close attention to people around while technically focusing on her body, finding support by investing stories or zooming in on small details, moving from inside to outside and from outside to inside. Since then, she has carried on creating pieces that actively involve the body, even when the movement is invisible. Through her work, Caroline creates multiple images that stay, remain or move, putting different actions, times, intensities and roles into perspective.
Through Ex/tensionS, she interrogates the idea of endless falling again, continuing to shift references and working in different spaces — from the neutrality of a dance studio to the effervescence of a city. An abstract of her work so far, the performance will not occur on stage, but will exist by shifting the gesture in different spaces and through new media. Photos and videos authorize playing with a lot of different scales, zooming and opening the frame. They also can transform the position of the mover(s) and the main action, so it no longer is what we think it is. Thus, working on suspended or moving images, each protocol starts with a body exploration and transforms itself into a small piece that will be performed in many different ways.
Caroline Grosjean was born in 1976 and educated in ballet and modern dance as a child. She discovered contemporary dance in Lyon, by joining a “danse-études” program and going to university. She later went on being a trainee at the CCN in Montpellier in 1999 and obtained a scholarship in the Martha Graham dance school. Ever since then, she has been working as a professional contemporary dancer for several companies in France, Belgium and Austria. She was invited to participate to danceWEB in 2004, passed the state diploma to teach dance with success in 2007 and got a university diploma in Art, Dance and Performance in 2012. Her own works number the A l’endroit… (2009) solo, Eastern (2010) — a trio for two dancers and a gambist, PARTITIONS (2012) — a performative proposal for public spaces and Héroïnes (2013), where dance and art are meeting. She has also lead a lot of social and cultural activities in schools and theaters, and was invited by the scene nationale in Besançon to constitute a group of non professional dancers, that she has been training for two years now. She recently was one of the choreographers invited to the Abbaye de Royaumont, where she just presented a new project, along with the new Appel group.
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The final presentation of the Life Long Burning residency offered by 4Culture Association in partnership with CCN de Montpellier L-R to French choreographer Caroline Grosjean. A project hosted by WASP – Working Art Space and Production, as part of the 2014 residencies & productions programme. A cultural project financed by: Life Long Burning, with the support of the European Union’s Culture 2007-2013 Programme, the Ministry of Culture, AFCN – The National Cultural Fund Administration, The Bucharest City Council Centre for Cultural Projects and ARCUB — București 555 Program.
