Author: fbouillon

Little rituals between friends

« In our world full of confusion and handicaped with communication issues remains one piece that everybody has to share : this is the heart, the ability to love, to comfort and to get reconciliated. » C. Chemla

Daily characters who are stuck into their habits, obsessions, personal internments…these people cross meet, try to communicate and maybe to love each other.

Destinies crosses resulting from one gesture, one look… absurdity and futility of life.

Human and sensitive alchemy between dance and theatre in a play created by B Fischer.

Conception- Choreography: Brigitte Fischer

Performers: The Company Workshop

Lights: Didier Borie

Music: Martine à la Plage

Sound designer : Olivier Brousse

Images : Patrick Moll

Brigitte Fischer

Dancer, musician, choreographer and pedagogue. An athletic and musical training during her childhood, then dance for leisure soon became a passion and a job. First steps in a musical show in Lyon (tap dancing, jazz, song and comedy), plus in parallel studies in psychology and physiotherapy.

An escapade with Zavatta circus where she learnt monocycle techniques, tightrope walking and clown.

1982, first contract in a musical show, and the desire to go deeper in investigation for contemporary dance. In Paris, she got interest for works from Jacques Patarozzi, Peter Goss, Larrio Ekson, Michèle Cacouault…and later Myriam Bern, Claude Coldy, Dominique Bagouet, Jean Gaudin and Michel Raji (L.A.C : « laboratoire des Acteurs Créateurs” in Toulouse). All these encountered people allowed her to get different techniques, to work on composition and improvisation, to dance in different companies and develop a personal philosophy that permitted her to finally teach dancing and be a choreographer.

In parallel, she learnt Cuban and African percussions, which in 1994 enabled her to integrate the company « Les Commandos Percu ». Then in 1998, she strengthens this learning with a professional training at Music’ halle (school for “live music” in Toulouse) as a percussionist. This enabled her also to play the piano, instrument that she had already tested and learnt as a child.

Then, she turned towards body energy-giving techniques (relaxation, massages, yoga, Qi-Gong) in order to enhance her teaching. She created a specific work for actors and dancers, children also, and teaches body percussions and tap dancing.

She likes mixing styles and people. Always searching and thinking to go deeper in her work, she travels through dancing, music, theatre and life… a desire to go further and further.

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Pedagogy – Actors & Dancers

Start the day with a basic work on body energy-giving structures in order to stimulate vitality, help getting centered, access to the universe of sensations and discover the essence of movement (work based on principles from relaxation, yoga, qi-gong, do-in, fundamental movement, massages…).

The stretching and limbering-up of backside muscles in order to give a better posture to the body, in a normal morphology.

The centre, named « hara » in Japanese philosophy, is the center of the entire human being, linked to the strength, the health, the integrity of a person, the heart of one’s relationship to the world and universe.

A work that can be applied on a daily basis both for dance and theatre.

The work on postures will help getting progressively in the movement (fluidity, flexibility and power to find out one’s natural mobility).

The balance and out-of-balance to find out suspensions…to feel the effect of gravity… work on falls in different forms of energy.

All of this will give clues to look for a better self-control of the body’s weight.

Learning various gestures that everyone will adapt to his/her own energy and to his/her own potentialities..

A work based on occupying and getting oriented in the whole space. Space architecture awareness will allow to move around in peculiar spaces.

All this matter will be used to access to spontaneous movement and composition : discover the keys to open the way to our inner worlds.

The rhythm where body and voice become percussion instruments : with basic sounding gestures learn notions like tempo, measures, quavers, 2 times-base or 3 times-based rhythms, multi-rhythms…

Look for the intimate relationship with music, to finally find out the body musicality (various musical universes and use of percussions).

Build architectures (solo, duo, trio…) where gesture, body and voice create forms, spiral lines and colors that cannot be caught by common sense but request use of senses.

Contact-dancing in order to highlight the fact that dancing is a sharing out. Be aware of one’s own “animal”, as taught by Steve Paxton, who demonstrates the presence of an underneath element inside the socialized person, below this own part of ourselves that uses oral language, linear thought and movements behavior that correspond to civilized spaces.

Possibility to evolve in nature.

Working on oneself and sharing with others to find again the breathing of life, simplicity, naturalness and dance humanity.

Investigate on the fragility edge and not on the strength edge.