Marine Chesnais
Marine Chesnais was born in 1988 and today lives on the island of Groix. She won the first prize from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris in 2008. Since 2016, she has collaborated with Gisèle Vienne as a performer, notably on the creation CROWD currently on national and international tour. She founded the company One Breath in 2017 and established it a few years later in Lorient. She sees it as a research laboratory in bio-inspired dance. In 2018, Marine Chesnais won the FoRTE springboard for emerging talents in the Ile de France region. She created Rhein in 2019 then Habiter le Seuil in 2021. This project is divided into two parts: a film (international award-winning and choreographic duo) and a duet with Clémentine Maubon. Marine Chesnais is currently working on a dance conference project entitled Cherry Collapse – How everything fears collapsing with the actor Christophe Paou and the sound creator François Joncour which will see the light of day in 2024. She is also preparing a project entitled Underwater Society for 2026. , composed of a film and a stage form, based on the underwater museums of Jason deCaires Taylor transmitted to the Mediterranean. Marine Chesnais is also a yoga teacher, acupuncturist (graduate of the School of Five Elements), freediver (Aida 4, April 2023).
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Aline Berthou
aline@aoza-production.com
+336 58 39 78 18
Charlotte Bayle
charlotte.b@aoza-production.com
Habiter le seuil • Creation 2021 (duet)
Passionate about marine adventures, at the crossroads of self-awareness and the relationship with life, choreographer Marine Chesnais bases her work on breathing, energy, fluidity. In her new creation, Living in the threshold, she invites us on a collective and immersive odyssey in the deep blue, and plunges us into the aquatic origins of Man, in an underwater duo where dance undulates, unites, inspires. A breathtaking piece!
Conception, chorégraphie et scénographie Marine Chesnais
Création musicale François Joncour avec la collaboration de Stephen O’Malley
Interprétation Clémentine Maubon & Marine Chesnais
Costumes Anne Mailhol & Marine Chenais
Lumières Jérôme Houlès
Ecriture voix off Marine Chesnais avec le regard de Patrice Van Eersel
Production et diffusion Aoza – Aline Berthou & Charlotte Bayle
Partenaires : DRAC Bretagne – DGCA – Région Bretagne – Convention Institut Français – Région Bretagne – Lalanbik // Centre de Ressources pour le Développement Chorégraphique océan Indien – Domaine de Kerguéhennec // Département du Morbihan – La Briqueterie // CDCN du Val-de-Marne – la Manufacture // CDCN de Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Centre culturel de la Ville Robert // Pordic – Le Triangle Cité de la danse // Rennes – Centre culturel L’Hermine // Sarzeau – Dispositif PARI! ON THE MOVES // Institut Français-DGCA – La Carène, salle de musiques actuelles // Brest
Soutiens – Coopérations : Association scientifique de recherche sur les cétacés Globice // La Réunion – Quiétude Cétacés // La Réunion – C.A.M.P // Amélie-Anne Chapelain – Danse à tous les étages – Réservoir Danse – L’Hydrophone, scène de musiques actuelles // Lorient – Centre de plongée Bulle d’air // La Réunion – Equipement sous-marin Breier
Habiter le seuil • Creation 2021 (film)
Marine Chesnais, choreographer and contemporary dance performer, goes to meet the humpback whales of Reunion Island. From these interactions in the deep blue, free-diving dance improvisations are born. The film is a choreographic and hypnotic journey taking place underwater, following in the footsteps of this original approach. By showing the process of meeting a wild animal in its natural environment, Habiter le threshold questions what is at stake in everyone in this space of relationship where nothing is controllable and questions more broadly the link with the Living.
Conception, chorégraphie et scénographie Marine Chesnais
Création musicale François Joncour avec la collaboration de Stephen O’Malley
Interprétation Clémentine Maubon & Marine Chesnais
Costumes Anne Mailhol & Marine Chenais
Lumières Jérôme Houlès
Ecriture voix off Marine Chesnais avec le regard de Patrice Van Eersel
Production et diffusion Aoza – Aline Berthou & Charlotte Bayle
Partenaires : DRAC Bretagne – DGCA – Région Bretagne – Convention Institut Français – Région Bretagne – Lalanbik // Centre de Ressources pour le Développement Chorégraphique océan Indien – Domaine de Kerguéhennec // Département du Morbihan – La Briqueterie // CDCN du Val-de-Marne – la Manufacture // CDCN de Nouvelle-Aquitaine – Centre culturel de la Ville Robert // Pordic – Le Triangle Cité de la danse // Rennes – Centre culturel L’Hermine // Sarzeau – Dispositif PARI! ON THE MOVES // Institut Français-DGCA – La Carène, salle de musiques actuelles // Brest
Soutiens – Coopérations : Association scientifique de recherche sur les cétacés Globice // La Réunion – Quiétude Cétacés // La Réunion – C.A.M.P // Amélie-Anne Chapelain – Danse à tous les étages – Réservoir Danse – L’Hydrophone, scène de musiques actuelles // Lorient – Centre de plongée Bulle d’air // La Réunion – Equipement sous-marin Breier
In creation
Cherry Collapse • Creation 2024
Faced with the dismay that awaits us in the face of the various collapses pointed out by the collapsology school of thought, we can choose the erasure of what is, or accept the crumbling of our current realities, on the way to others. possible. Cherry Collapse is an (almost) all-terrain dance theater duo to delve into the heart of these notions, identify their contours, discern facts from fantasies, reveal with lucidity and humor the emotions they give rise to . No defeatism or catastrophism, collapsology is not a resignation, but rather an awakening of thought and initiative, and an encouragement to try something else.
Une création de Marine Chesnais
Interprétation Christophe Paou et Marine Chesnais
Création sonore François Joncour
Création lumière Arthur Gueydan
Regards extérieurs : Jonathan Capdevielle, Bastien Fèvre et Clémentine Maubon
Production, administration, diffusion Aoza – Aline Berthou & Charlotte Bayle
Avec la participation de Frédéric Ferrer
Production One Breath
Coproduction Le Triangle – Rennes, L’Hermine – Sarzeau, Le Domaine de Kerguéhennec, en cours
La compagnie One Breath est soutenue par le Ministère de la Culture – DRAC Bretagne (conventionnement deux ans)
Underwater society • Creation 20260
Underwater Society is a long-term arts & sciences project, the heart of which will take place underwater in freediving, within the underwater museums of the Mediterranean basin created by British sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. Both underwater sculpture parks and artificial reefs, this universe takes us on a journey into a post-disaster story where rising waters and the notion of engulfment reveal a contemporary myth of Atlantis, which places humans facing his choices and responsibilities. Underwater Society will include the creation of a film and an immersive set creation with a team of dancers, freedivers, as well as an EAC project. It represents the attempt to seek underwater, deep within oneself, what constitutes resistance, to displace our human habits and to reveal “those gestures and dances which must not die”*. Gestures that are like a barrier to forgetting. *Cf Victor Ségalen, The Immemorials