This modern dance company takes us into a magical world in their show La Bossa Fataka. Using extensive visual effects, La Bossa Fataka is a journey into the imaginary world of J.P Rameau, compositor at the court of King Louis XV. Extravagant and poetic, this combination of dance and video installation will leave you and your family dreaming. 218 performances between November 2006 and May 2008 including 38 performances outside France.
CHOREOGRAPHER’S NOTE
The title is a joyful combination of a fragment of a phonetic poem "Die Karawan" by Hugo Ball and the name of a composer of genius from the XVIII century, Jean-Philippe Rameau.
The title is a nod, a bow (but not a historically accurate one) to the founder of the Dada movement, a movement that gave a sense of aesthetic depth to new expressive forms such as collage, assemblage, photomontage and sound poetry, which indirectly form the basis for this work.
LA BOSSA FATAKA DE RAMEAU, freely inspired ON DANSE, is shot through with intense imagination, extravagance and madness, and carries us with it through the hymn to pleasure that is the very heart of the Jean-Philippe Rameau’s philosophy and his musical works. José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu draw a very sunny portrait of the composer, in contrast to his customary, austere one – a contemporary vision of his aesthetics of pleasure that, in its richness, triumphs over "Les Indes Galantes" and "Les Boréades"
José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu make use of technological imagery, with its ability to project, to edit and to make collages, and they transpose it, in a series of free and zany whims, extravagant machinery, special effects, tight-walking clouds, transformations, flying carpets and visible changes to the enchanting theatre to bring it to the present.
A playful bestiary links us by a secret chain to the world of Jean de la Fontaine. And the world of the fabulist is José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu’s thread that leads through the unreal world of the marvelous, the magicians, the metamorphoses, the disguises and the transformations of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric theatre.
The libretto of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet LES PALADINS is inspired by the tale "The Little Dog".
Through a subtle game of quotations, in which the old and the present-day reinforce, elucidate and amplify each other, José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu invite us to come with them to a wonderland of Rameau-like sounds. Rameau sweeps us off to his planet of light euphoria and of extravagance with its atmosphere of hedonist utopia.
Official Website: http://www.montalvo-hervieu.com/
For more information, visit Alliance française de Manille.
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