Gaël Sesboüé
Gaël Sesboüé
Gaël Sesboüé starts post-modern dance in 1983 and train alongside Mirjam Berns, Carlotta Ikeda, Dominique Bagouet, Angelin Preljocaj, Régine Chopinot, Jean Cébron, Catherine Diverrès. From 1985 he creates about 10 short plays and from 1995 he begins his performer’s career and participates in the artistic projects of Geisha Fontaine and Pierre Cottreau, Tamara Stuart-Ewing, Christian Bourigault, Cédric Gourmelon, Christian Rizzo, Xavier Le Roy… In 2007, he decides to concentrate on the development of the Lola Gatt Company in Brest and he creates several choreographic plays : Body west end (2008), An selm (2009), Le champ (2010), Relatives T (2011), Grammes (2012), Le Gardien (2013), GÊ (2014), Sloth (2016), O,S (2017), Maintenant, oui (2019), Ove (2019). These plays were presented during the festivals Ardanthé, Hors-saison, Faits d’hiver, Anticodes, Agitato, Avignon, Dañsfabrik, Kent dancing festival. They were also performed in different museum spaces or exhibitions halls like the Sidney Cooper Gallery in Canterbury, the Contemporary Art Centre Passerelle in Brest, the André Malraux Modern Art Museum in le Havre, the Contemporary and Modern Art Museum in Strasbourg…
Photos credits
© Maintenant, oui – Alain Monot
© Ove – Pascal Perennec
• On tour •
Maintenant, oui • Creation 2019
Gaël Sesboüé stands for minimalist movement approach as well as in its form as in its essence. Always keen on new experiences and meetings, his career is largely influenced by a multidisciplinary approach and the “codes” of contemporary art.
Based on a score of simple movements, Gaël Sesboüé imagines a play for 4 dancers. It is a metaphor of our everyday life, of our acts and movements that seem to repeat daily but yet different every day.
By remaking and reinventing the score, the choreographer challenges the frames that delineate our everyday life and plays with its limits to allow new possibilities.
Choreographer Gaël Sesboüé
Performers Carole Perdereau, Annabelle Pulcini, Jérôme Andrieu, Alexandre Théry
Light design Bénédicte Michaud
Sound design Vincent Raude
Costumes Stéphanie Gicquiaud
Special thanks to Betty Tchomanga.
Production Lola Gatt
Coproductions Le Quartz – National scene of Brest in partnership with Le Mac Orlan and Danse à tous les étages.
Partners Centre culturel de La Ville Robert in Pordic, Micadanses in Paris and L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France in Château-Thierry.
Lola Gatt Association is supported by Brittany Region.
With the support of Ministry of Culture – DRAC of Brittany, City of Brest and Finistère Department.
With the support of SPEDIDAM.
Ove • Creation 2019
Comme un œuf, le corps est d’abord lové sur lui-même, en attente, en gestation. Lentement, au rythme de sa respiration, il se met en mouvement, fend sa coquille. Un bras, une jambe apparaissent tour à tour. Le corps se déploie peu à peu : est-ce un animal, un humain, un oiseau ? Il poursuit sa croissance, trouve ses appuis, tout d’abord fragiles, mais qui bientôt se consolident… Puis il continue à tenter de monter, de grimper, de s’élever. De quatre pattes ; il passe à deux, timidement, puis assurément. Et ses bras, alors ? Que peut-il en faire ? Il poursuit son exploration, tente des expériences, ses bras seraient-ils des ailes ? Alors… un envol est-il possible ?
