Recording and research residency.
As part of the Meyer Foundation's residency program for cultural and artistic development.
Un geste sans gravité is a choreographic trio with a strong musical dimension. Three dancers and a rope are caught up in forces and relationships as transversal, horizontal and vertical as gravity. Gravity appears, overturning the established order to usher us into a circular world in which opposites meet and the serious becomes lighter.
Subjected to the tensions and forces exerted in all directions by dance and rope, the three performers gravitate like stars. In these times, when world events are anxiety-provoking, when we are subjected to constraints as tight as ropes, we transform them into apparatus to reverse the trends and enter into a life of weightlessness. We escape through the air.
Un geste sans gravité is rooted in kinetography, a system for writing movement created in 1929 by choreographer and architect Rudolf Laban. Dance, the source of life, exists only through the movement of mass movements and struggles with gravity, as opposed to death, which is merely static. The piece is written in Laban scores. Gesture and sound are linked. The sound composition of the piece is double: on stage and recorded to increase the volumes of the space. Recordings of string sounds densify silences, opening up landscapes of tenuous sounds and sparkles, where pointillist sequences intertwine.
Production
compagnie TohuBohu
Coproduction
Centre national de la Danse "Artiste en expérimentation 2024-2025".
Support
Fondation Meyer ; Pôle 164 ; Désoblique Scène découverte Lyon ; LIEUES - association mâ ; La maison du Berger ; Dalga danse libre
Acknowledgements
Odile Rouquet, Chloé Nawel Cacheux, Séléna Falcini-Bagaya
Artem Naumenko
Sound designer, improviser
Artem began his musical career in Saratov, studying at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, then at the CNSMDP in flute, chamber music and generative improvisation. He has trained with artists such as Philippe Bernold, Vincent Lê Quang, Alexandros Markeas and Médéric Collignon.
He is a member of chamber music ensembles such as Quintette Apalone and Trio d'Anges de Paris, and plays with Brazilian music groups. He takes part in contemporary and improvised music projects with Vincent Lê Quang, Stanislav Makovsky and Nicolas Frize. As a soloist, he has performed at Lincoln Center (New York), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Hôtel des Invalides.
He is involved in transdisciplinary projects and collaborates with choreographic, visual and circus artists such as Pedro Pauwels, Alice Boivin, Bilyana Furnadzhieva, Tatiana-Mosio Bongonga.
In 2022, he created Il y a loin, a generative improvisation piece for 4 performers at the Détours de Babel festival. He creates a duo with Fabien Janicic (musique actuelle).
Alice Boivin
Project leader, choreographer and performer
Graduated from the CNSMDP in contemporary dance in 2016 and in Laban writing in 2022, she trained with Noëlle Simonet, Odile Rouquet, Nathalie Pubellier, Edmond Russo, and met Lucinda Childs, Rachid Ouramdane. During Prototype III at Royaumont in 2017, she worked with Hélène Iratchet, Irénée Blin.
Since 2017, Alice has been a performer with Aurélie Berland, Véronique His, Aude Lebihan and choreographer Mathilde Rance. She engages in co-creations(VRAC, ekkis with Marion Rhéty), her creations, transdisciplinary projects (Scott Rubin with IRCAM). Using Laban writing, she interprets and transmits modern works.
After a meeting with Maguy Marin, she transcribed an extract from May B into a Laban score . She remounted it during Danse amateur et répertoire du CN D in 2024, mixing written and oral transmission with Isabelle Missal. She works as a mediator with several organizations (LIEUES, Ateliers de Paris, SUBS, Ar(t)icoche, Démos, CMA...).
In 2022, she set up the TohuBohu company. In 2023, she joined the team at LIEUES, a collective space for transdisciplinary artistic experimentation in Lyon. From 2025, she teaches introductory kinetography at the Université Lumière LYON 2 and at the CNSMDL. In 2025, she won a prize from the Meyer Foundation for a writing residency combining Laban writing and creation.
Alice Boivin
choreographer-performer
Artem Naumenko
sound designer
Laure Desplan
performer
Vincent Dupuy
performer
Maureen Sizun Vom Dorp
lighting design