Dance Week Festival

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artistic creation, choreography, interpretation: Jasmina Prolic

technical and multimedia creation, interpretation: Hubert Pichot

dramaturg: Igor Dobricic

additional music byr: Bruno Bianchi

set & costume design: Hana Zec

light design: Ivan Mathis

video creation: Liza Gabry

About the preformance

In this project, Jasmina Prolic and Hubert Pichot collaborate around the search for a new language combining in real-time the sound, the image, the light and the dance, thanks to the use of sensors (pressure or bending pick-ups, accelerometers). On the theme of clash, through the game of influence of sexes, they imagine a duet between a man and a woman on the one hand, between the body and technology on the other hand.

“The very form of the play can disturb at first sight: this mixture between the dance, which we usually have a rather earthly image, and new technologies, with their dehumanized aspect, is indeed quite disconcerting. Yet, the relation which is created as the play goes by, between the two interpreters and the two disciplines, is so human that this confusion transforms itself quickly into curiosity for what is building, then in complicity with these two “characters” who live eventually a universal experience. The dialogue starts little by little, in softness but also in violence, like any human relation, so difficult and yet so essential. One could be tempted to reproach the play to be a little too much “mental”, but Jasmina Prolic generosity when she dances – this way of playing with her audience, this way of playing with her “absent” partner, also this way of playing with the risks of live broadcasting due to the use of new technologies -, enables emotion to force its way through the heart of the audience… human beings.”

Anne Daroussin

About the choreographer

Jasmina Prolic was born in 1976 in Sarajevo and began to learn Classical Dancing when she was 10. In 1991, she won the third price at the National Contest of Classical Dancing of Yugoslavia. Then, she joined the corps de ballet of Sarajevo’s National Theatre where she remained until the outburst of the war in April 1992. She found refuge in Zagreb, and entered The National Superior Conservatoire of Dance and Music of Paris, where she started learning Contemporary Dancing. For her graduation in 1996, she created a first solo “Sarajevo, 25th of April 10 o’clock in the morning or Why?”. The latter won the first price in Albi, at the 1999 Contest for French Young Choreographers “Solo Mio”.

She was a member of the Junior Ballet of the CNSMDP from 1996 to 1997, and then danceweber within the context of DanceWeb (ImpulsTanz) in Vienna in 1998. While working as a performer dancer with Jean Claude Gallota, Maguy Marin, Joachim Schlomer, or Palle Granhoj, she created her first choreographic works.

In 2002, she eventually founded her own company in Orléans at Joseph Nadj’s invitation. The company repertory has eight creations. She doesn’t hesitate to collaborate as a choreographer with other artists, notably producers (Gildas Zepffel, Gildas Bourdet, Balazs Gera…), and for her creations with musicians and composers (Maja Pavlovska, Szilard Mezei, Albert Markos, Henrik Jaspersen et Ko de Regt (Duo Resonante), Jérome Poret…)

Since 2006, Jasmina Prolic has regularly worked in the Balkans where she diffuses her creations and organises workshops. Since 2007, she is artistic consultant for the project “Nomad Dance Academy” for Tanzelarija, organisation for contemporary dance development and promotion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Balkan Dance Network. She is also artistic director of the fisrt Contemporary Dance Festival ZVRK organized in September 2008 in Sarajevo. In this exchange dynamic, she also organized the event “Choreographic Meetings of the Balkans” in Orléans. The second edition will take place in 2009 with the National Choreographic Centre of Orléans and National Scene of Orléans.