NOMES
“Nomes” gathers several extracts of choreographic pieces Claudio Bernardo created these last years.
The dancers who worked with Claudio Bernardo for these creations are all outstanding performers, endowed with strong personality. The title “Nomes” means “Names”. This performance is a kind of tribute to these performers who give shape to a set of dance pieces that fit into each other in a logical continuity.
The choreographies, free from their original sceneries and costumes focus on the pureness of gesture and dance. Chosen extracts are reshaped to melt into a generic and ever-changing piece. Each performance is new and different, but all of them are questioning dance.
NOMES I
As part of the festival “Les Floraisons Botaniques”
1-“Histoire de Sel”
With Bernard Delire, soloist cello player
Choreographer: Claudio Bernardo
Performers: Ida de Vos and Claudio Bernardo
Soloist Cello player: Bernard Delire of the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie
Music: Fourth Sonata for Cello by Johan. S. Bach, extract from 4th Suite in E major for Cello BWV 1010 1. Prelude 2. Saraband, Traditional Music of Nordeste (Brazil), Original soundtrack from the film “Orfeo Negro”, extracts from the “Human Voice” by Jean Cocteau, told by Simone Signoret
Sound Designer: Luc d’Haenens
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Costume Designers: Valentina Biliotti and Agnes Dubois
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Assistant to Stage Manager: Laurent Marioule
2-“La jeune Fille et la Mort”
Choreographer: Claudio Bernardo
Performers: Séverine Paquier and Charles Cré-Ange
Music: Extract from Quartet n°14 in D minor D 810, “La jeune Fille et la Mort” Franz Schubert- Second Movement: Andate con moto
Musicians: Quartet of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Assistant to Stage Manager: Laurent Marioule
3-“Scary Faces”
Choreographers and Performers: Johanne Saunier and Claudio Bernardo
Music: Concerto for String Orchestra in D major by Igor Stravinsky (1. Vivace 2. Arioso 3. Rondo)
Musicians: Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie
Conductor: Jean-François Chamberlan
Sountrack: Extract from the Original Sountrack of “Scareface” by Brian de Palma produced by Trionix
Costume Designer: Lola Lola
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Assistant to Stage Manager: Laurent Marioule
Produced by As Palavras-Cie Claudio Bernardo, with the support and facilities of the Manège, Mons, Centre Culturel Transfontalier
Co-produced by “le Botanique” with the partnership of Joji Inc
Financial Support from the Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles-Service de la Danse (French Community Wallonie-Brussels- Dance Departement) and from the City of Mons
Special thanks to Fatou Traoré (1x2x3 asbl)
NOMES II
Maison de la Culture de Tournai
“The Waves”
Choreography and Stage Direction: Claudio Bernardo
Assistant to Stage Direction: Jean Noël Delfanne
Performers: Anne-Cécile Massoni, Milton Paulo, Thomas Regnier, Claudio Bernardo
Music: Antonio Carlos Jobim, Claude Debussy, extracts from the remix by Geer Jansens (“Biosphère”) and from the original soundtrack from “Le Mépris” by Jean-Luc Godard
Musicians: Laurence Gomez, Stéphane Ginsburgh, Steve Gibbs
Arrangements: Steve Gibbs, Jean-Luc Fafchamps
Music Adviser: Henri Greindl
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Costume Designer: Christoph Broich
Set Designer: Jeroen Gerats
Set Artists: Frédéric Op de Beck, Olivia Mortier
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Photographer: Jean-Luc Tanghe
Special thanks to Matteo Moles
NOMES III
As part of “Les dimanches de la Danse” at the Halles de Schaerbeek
“Sketches for (My Sacredheart the Drunk)
Choreographer and Performer: Claudio Bernardo
Set Designers: Claudio Bernardo and Damien Gernay
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Soundtrack: Extracts from “Je n’en connais pas la fin”- Edith Piaf/ “Lilac Wyne”- Leonard Cohen/ “Everybody here wants you”- Jeff Buckley/ “You and I”- Jeff Buckley
Produced by As Palavras-Cie Claudio Bernardo, with the support and facilities of the Centre Culturel de la region de Mons
Financial Support from the Ministère de la Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles (Ministry of French Community Wallonie-Brussels)
NOMES IV
As part of the festival “Le Mouvement- Mons” at the Royal Theater of Mons
1-“Histoire de Sel”
With Bernard Delire, soloist cello player
Choreographer: Claudio Bernardo
Performers: Ida de Vos and Claudio Bernardo
Soloist Cello player: Bernard Delire of the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie
Music: Fourth Sonata for Cello by Johan. S. Bach, extract from 4th Suite in E major for Cello BWV 1010 1. Prelude 2. Saraband, Traditional Music of Nordeste (Brazil), Original soundtrack from the film “Orfeo Negro”, extracts from the “Human Voice” by Jean Cocteau, told by Simone Signoret
Sound Designer: Luc d’Haenens
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Costume Designers: Valentina Biliotti and Agnes Dubois
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Assistant to Stage Manager: Laurent Marioule
2-“La jeune Fille et la Mort”
Choreographer: Claudio Bernardo
Performers: Séverine Paquier and Charles Cré-Ange
Music: Extract from Quartet n°14 in D minor D 810, “La jeune Fille et la Mort” Franz Schubert- Second Movement: Andate con moto
Musicians: Quartet of the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Assistant to Stage Manager: Laurent Marioule
3-“Scary Faces”
Choreographers and Performers: Johanne Saunier and Claudio Bernardo
Music: Concerto for String Orchestra in D major by Igor Stravinsky (1. Vivace 2. Arioso 3. Rondo)
Musicians: Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie
Conductor: Jean-François Chamberlan
Sountrack: Extract from the Original Sountrack of “Scareface” by Brian de Palma produced by Trionix
Costume Designer: Lola Lola
Stage Manager: Nixon Fernandez
Assistant to Stage Manager: Laurent Marioule
Produced by As Palavras-Cie Claudio Bernardo, with the support and facilities of the Manège, Mons, Centre Culturel Transfontalier
Co-produced by “le Botanique” with the partnership of Joji Inc
Financial Support from the Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles-Service de la Danse (French Community Wallonie-Brussels- Dance Departement) and from the City of Mons
Special thanks to Fatou Traoré (1x2x3 asbl)
NOMES V
As part of the Festival de Danse d’Ici et d’Ailleurs at the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck
Between 1992 and 1997, the choreographer created a triptych: “Systole”, “Dilatatio” and “The Voice”. These works inspired by three female characters: Frida Kahlo, Thérèse d’Avila and the “Human Voice” of Jean Cocteau treats of the eternal feminine. The “love to the absentee” is the main theme, common to the three pieces of the triptyc.
Here, for this project, a new piece “Ariane à Naxos” on the music of Haydn is added.
The performance is crowned with one last part, danced in unison by the performers on a piece by Claude Debussy “La Mer”.
Choreographer: Claudio Bernardo
Assistant: Jordi Granados
Performers: Ximena Arroyo, Claudio Brenardo, Jordi Granados, Christine Henkart, Daniela Luca, Anne-Cécile Massoni, Milton Paulo, Loïc Plizzi, Karine Ponties
Costume Designer: Agnes Dubois
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Stage Manager: Stephen Ferrari
Produced by As Palavras-Cie Claudio Bernardo, with the support and facilities of the Manège, Mons, Centre Culturel Transfontalier
Co-produced by the Centre des Arts d’Enghien Les Bains, the Théâtre de la Balsamine, the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck
Financial Support from the Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles-Service de la Danse (French Community Wallonie-Brussels- Dance Departement) and from the City of Mons, from the Commissariat Général aux Relations Internationales de la Communauté Française de Belgique and from the Loterie Nationale (National Lottery)
NOMES VI
At the Centre des Arts d’Enghien Les Bains
Video Installation
“Studies of the Human Body”
In 1997, inspired by Francis Bacon’s painting, I created a piece with two dancers Mickael Shumacher and Lance Gries. The body living matter, its balance and supports are the main theme of this piece.
As part of “Nomes”, I asked Annabel Chambon and Cédric Charron, from the Companie Label-Cedana, to reread the painting and to go over the choreographic material of the piece in order to propose their own vision of it and to create new version of it.
This commissioned composition took the form of a video installation.
One screen shows Schumacher, dancing an extract from the original piece, in 1997, at the Anatomy School of Amsterdam. While, on another screen, the version of Chambon and Charron deals with the topics of dialogue and dissection.
(Claudio Bernardo)
1-“Chaque fois unique la fin du monde”
Appolon falls in love with Hyacynthe. Along with his muses he goes to the meadow to play discuss.
Zephiros, god of wind, is jealous of Appolon and of his relationship with the muse. He blows so hard that the discus hits Hyacynte on the forehead and kills her.
Hyacynthe dies.
Appolon changes Hyacynthe into a flower.
Derida writes that any loved one is a world. When a beloved disappears, it is “the end of a world”.
Music: Joseph Haydn
Performers: Anne-Cécile Massoni, Adva Zakai, Loic Polizzi, Milton Paulo
This symphony by Haydn has five movements (instead of the usual four). As the different movements go along, instruments disappear some after others until two violins are left.
2-“Le Sacre- O Sacrificio”
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Performers: Anne-Cécile Massoni, Hadva Zakai, Fatou traoré, Yannick Duret, Jean-Michel Van Den Eeydn, Loic Polizzi, Milton Paulo and Malik Choukrane (percussionist)
3-“Antigone”
Music: Partita BMW “Chaconne”
Performer: Via de Vos
4- “Paixao”, “Usdum”, “Vas”
Music: “La Passion selon Saint Jean” by J.S. Bach
Performers: Anne-Cécile Massoni, Hadva Zakai, Bérengère Bodin, Fatou Traoré, Boris Cossio, Loic Polizzi, Mattéo Moles, Milton Paulo, Claudio Bernardo and Jordi Granados
Produced by As Palavras-Cie Claudio Bernardo, with the support and facilities of the Manège, Mons, Centre Culturel Transfontalier
Co-produced by the Centre des Arts d’Enghien Les Bains, the Théâtre de la Balsamine
Financial Support from the Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles-Service de la Danse (French Community Wallonie-Brussels- Dance Departement) and from the City of Mons
NOMES VII
As part of the festival “Danse à la Balsa” at the Théâtre de la Balsamine
In 2005, the “Théâtre de la Balsamine” gave a free hand to Claudio Bernardo to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his company.
The performance brings together not less than 22 artists who worked with the choreographer in the last ten years; dancers, choreographers, musicians, video designers, actors and singers.
Nomes VII consists in several extracts of pieces from the repertoire and new creations that Claudio Bernardo choreographed for this special event throughout the theater of “la Balsamine”.
Musics from the Spanish Renaissance, as well pieces by Bach, Stravinsky and Haydn enhance the artistic world of the choreographer.
Choreographer: Claudio Bernardo
Assistant: Jordi Granados
Performers: Ximena Arroyo, Claudio Bernardo, Bérengère Bodin, Anabelle Chambon and Cédric Charron, Malik Choukrane, Dominique Corbiau, Boris Cossio, Ida de Vos, Yannick Duret, Jordi Granados, Christine Henkart, Daniela Luca, Anne-Cécile Massoni, Matteo Moles, Milton Paulo, Loic Pollizi, Karine Ponties, Johanne Saunier, Fatou Traoré, Jean-Michel Van den Eeydn, Adva Zakai
Light Designer: Marco Forcella
Costume Designer: Agnès Dubois
Stage Manager: Stephen Ferrari
Produced by As Palavras-Cie Claudio Bernardo, with the support and facilities of the Manège, Mons, Centre Culturel Transfontalier
Co-produced by the Cnetre des Arts d’Enghien Les Bains, the Théâtre de la Balsamine, the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck
Financial Support from the Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles-Service de la Danse (French Community Wallonie-Brussels- Dance Departement) and from the City of Mons, from the Commissariat Général aux Relations Internationales de la Communauté Française de Belgique and from the Loterie Nationale (National Lottery)
