Sprint (in situ)

Re-creation 2024

Maeva Cunci is a performer who has been part of various phases of my choreographic work since 2002. The idea of a solo that would sketch a negative portrait quickly became an obvious choice to explore a piece that moves between abstraction and figuration centered around the act of running. Here, running does not serve as a symbol of mobility or even a headlong rush, but rather as a form of revelation.
Maeva hates running, and it is with full awareness that I propose this "sprint" to her as a starting point... I aim to provoke what will circumvent and/or alter this run, conceived as a continuous bass, an almost neutral figure from which other bodily states, multiple and protean presences, would emerge, marked by the successive exhaustion of this sprint... To run until exhaustion and be reborn in the joy of a second wind.

In 2024, an in situ version without lighting and sound design was created for non-dedicated spaces (such as gymnasiums and/or dance studios)
This acoustic version, conceived in close proximity to the dancer, allows the audience to experience the vocal work—centered on breath, the rythm of running and the question of exhaustion at ist most intimate. It brings new life to a piece that Maeva Cunci has now been performing for 12 years, with a maturity marked by great poetic strength.

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Sprint (in situ)
Concept Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Performance Maeva Cunci
Light and set design Françoise Michel 
Costumes Corine Petitpierre 
Costumes design by Anne Tesson
production manager : Solenne Racapé

ProductionPAVILLON-S, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Produce by the Phare, Centre chorégraphique national du Havre Normandie (2020)
Partners Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, Centre National de la Danse (Pantin)
Pavillon-s is supported par le Ministère de la culture – direction générale de la création artistique, the Région Normandie, the Département de l'Eure, the Département de Seine-Maritime and the Ville de Rouen.

Schedule

August 23rd 2025 - Rubirock, Voetvolk Atelier Rubigny
September 22nd 2024 - Wei! Week-end intégral #3, Andé
September 21st  2024 - Wei! Week-end intégral #3, Andé
September 6th 2024 - Festival Déter, La Grand-Combe
March 12nd 2024 - Le Théâtre, scène nationale de Saint-Nazaire
October 3rd 2020 - MuMa, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
February 5th2020 - Le Phare, CCN du Havre Normandie / Festival Pharenheit
January 9th 2020 - Lycée Albert Sorel, Honfleur
June 8th 2017 - Helatari Salihara / Jakarta, Indonésie
July 25th2016 - Beijing Dance Festival au Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, Pékin, Chine
May 11th 2016 - Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, en partenariat avec le Théâtre de Caen
May 10th 2016 - Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, en partenariat avec le Théâtre de Caen
September 17th 2015 - Festival Le Temps d'Aimer, Biarritz
February 11th 2015 - Festival Faits d'Hiver / Micadanses, Paris
February 12th 2015 - Festival Faits d'Hiver / Micadanses, Paris
November 18th 2014 - Centre chorégraphique national de Tours
January 24th 2014 - Festival Pharenheit / Le Phare, Le Havre
January 25th 2014 - Festival Pharenheit / Le Phare, Le Havre
January 12th 2014 - Chez Bushwick / CPR, New-York
January 11th 2014 - Chez Bushwick / CPR, New-York
May 29 2013 - Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis / CND, Pantin
May 28 2013 - Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis / CND, Pantin
May 27 2013 - Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis / CND, Pantin
May 24 2013 - Festival Agitato / Le Triangle, Rennes

Maeva Cunci is a performer who has been part of various phases of my choreographic work since 2002. The idea of a solo that would sketch a negative portrait quickly became an obvious choice to explore a piece that moves between abstraction and figuration centered around the act of running. Here, running does not serve as a symbol of mobility or even a headlong rush, but rather as a form of revelation.
Maeva hates running, and it is with full awareness that I propose this "sprint" to her as a starting point... I aim to provoke what will circumvent and/or alter this run, conceived as a continuous bass, an almost neutral figure from which other bodily states, multiple and protean presences, would emerge, marked by the successive exhaustion of this sprint... To run until exhaustion and be reborn in the joy of a second wind.

In 2024, an in situ version without lighting and sound design was created for non-dedicated spaces (such as gymnasiums and/or dance studios)
This acoustic version, conceived in close proximity to the dancer, allows the audience to experience the vocal work—centered on breath, the rythm of running and the question of exhaustion at ist most intimate. It brings new life to a piece that Maeva Cunci has now been performing for 12 years, with a maturity marked by great poetic strength.