RICARDO FRAYHA
producer

In Les Mémoires d’und seigneur  (The Memories of a Lord) Olivier Dubois focusses on the loneliness of the great of this world, calling up characters such as Caligula, Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan. All these characters are represented by the dancer Sébastien Perrault/Rémi Richaud. Olivier tells his story: Glory, Decline and Farewell. In his glory days, the king speaks French, English, German and Russian. He is an ambitious hero, a monarch who is loved and a ruler of a civilisation. With his decline comes paranoia, barbarity, abuse of power and fear. Around him are fifty amateurs of various ages and body types. These anonymous figures form a mass, a swarm. They give the impression of a living-background that transforms into a forest, a tower or a battle field as the tableaux change.

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OLIVIER DUBOIS

 

Has been Director of the Ballet du Nord since January 1, 2014 and was named one of the 25 best dancers in the world in 2011 by the magazine Dance Europe. Olivier Dubois is a triple threat of unique talents, blending creation, performance and pedagogy. Born in 1972, Olivier Dubois created his first solo in 1999, Under cover. He has danced with many renowned choreographers and directors, among them Laura Simi, Karine Saporta, Angelin Preljocaj, Charles Cré-Ange, the Cirque du Soleil, Jan Fabre, Dominique Boivin and Sasha Waltz. Since 2005, he has created many successful works: after his duo Féroces with Christine Corday, for the Théâtre de l’Esplanade in Saint-Etienne, the SACD and the Avignon Festival asked him in 2006 to create a piece for their Sujet à vif section, Pour tout l’or du monde. He was awarded the special jury prize in June 2007 by the professional arts critics syndicate (in theatre, music and dance) for his work as a dancer and for this work. He also presented in 2006 and 2007 the two parts of his project BDanse: En Sourdine and Peter Pan. In July 2008, he created Faune(s) based upon Nijinsky’s iconic piece L’après-midi d’un faune at the Avignon Festival and the same year he was awarded the first Jardin d’Europe Prize in Vienna. In 2009 he mounted an exhibition, L’interprète dévisagé (The performer unmasked) at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris, which ran for a month. Then the Ballets de Monte-Carlo commissioned Spectre, which premiered April 1, 2010. And in September, he created L’homme de l’Atlantique for the Dance Biennial of Lyon, a duo to the music of Frank Sinatra. Continuing to expand his creative horizons, Olivier Dubois then created the choreography for La Périchole d’Offenbach for the Opéras of Lille, Nantes and Limoges in January 2009, under the direction of Bérangère Jannelle. In November 2009, he began a trilogy of pieces, Etude critique pour un trompe l’oeil, with Révolution which premiered at the Ménagerie de Verre in Paris. The second section, the solo Rouge, premiered in December 2011; and the final section, Tragédie, premiered at the Avignon Festival on July 23, 2012 and is currently on tour until sometime in 2015. Along with his choreographic and dance activities, he has taught many workshops and classes for foreign dance companies, among them: the National Opera of Vienna, the National School in Athens, the National Opera in Cairo, Troubleyn /Jan Fabre, the Ballet Preljocaj, the Beaux-Arts School in Monaco … He was awarded his French national teaching diploma in 2012 because of his extensive teaching experience. He created a work for 120 amateurs at the Prisme d’Elancourt, Envers et face à tous in May 2011. This project continued in May 2014 in the event called Made in Rbx. He created Élégie for the Ballet National de Marseille as part of the event celebrating Marseille 2013, capitale européenne de la culture and was named best choreographer at the Danza & Danza awards in 2013 for Tragédie and Élégie. He created Souls in December 2013, after rehearsing in Cairo and Dakar with six dancers from several different African countries. In January 2015, Olivier Dubois created Mon Élue noire Sacre # 2, solo for Germaine Acogny and, in june, a new solo untitled Les Mémoires d’un seigneur ou l’Homme disparu. His last creation is a piece for twenty-two dancers, Auguri, which was created in August 2016 in Internationales Sommersfestival in Hambourg.

 

 

THE MEMORIES OF A LORD

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creation: Olivier Dubois | artistic assistant: Cyril Accorsi | assistent and coaching: Karine Girard | dancer: Rémi Richaud | corpus: 50 local participants | music: François Caffenne | light designer: Patrick Riou | costume: Chrystel Zingiro | technical direction: Robert Pereira | light: Emmanuel Gary | sound: Jean-Philippe Borgogno | production: Ballet du Nord / Olivier Dubois - Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Hauts-de-France Nord-Pas de Calais Picardie

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production in Brazil: prod.art.br | production directors: Ricardo Muniz Fernandes, Ricardo Frayha

Realisation: Fundação Cidade das Artes

Cidade das Artes

Rio de Janeiro, RJ,  Brazil

12 and 13/11/2016