This creation in based on the research done by the German missionary Martin Gusinde at the beginning of the XX century on the population of the Land of Fire, revelation of a "static theatre". Carne is a demonstration of a shudder that goes till an outbreak. By accepting a thought of a shudder we falter our certainties, our doctrines and we leave a place for completely different someone that is in us. Carne should be seen in its original, archaic and sacred dimension. The re-appropriation of its body, of its flesh. There is a fundamental need to suspend time, to refresh our relationship with the world, to become again contemporary to the living beings and to open wide our eyes.
BERNARDO MONTET - CIE MAWGUERITE (France)
Born in Marseille, Bernardo Montet spent his childhood and adolescence in N’Djaména, Faya-Largeau (Chad) and Dakar Fann (Senegal). After studying psychomotricity, Bernardo Montet met dance with Sylvie Tarraube-Martigny,
Jean Masse, and Jacques Garros (founder of Travail Corporel). This decisive meeting brought him to Brussels, where he studied at the Mudra school of Maurice Béjart. He then continued his career with Catherine Diverrès, collaborated with François Verret, and danced in « Voyage Organisé » by Dominique
Bagouet. At this time, he revealed himself as « a contented and silent dancer who acts on the mode of spiritual bursts » (Laurent Barré). When most of the French choreographers went to the United States, he went with Catherine Diverrès to study the Buto dance in Japan with master Kazuo Ohno; a journey that upset his relationship with the dancing body. They created their duet « Instance », which combines radical violence and extreme restraint. Changed by this experience, he had the irrepressible desire for another dance and surrounded himself with a community of thought with which he shares a same commitment in the acute experience of self and the world. He met Téo Hernandez with whom he imagined his solo « Pain de Singe », constituting an essential stage in the affirmation of a total freedom of the artistic act; Pierre Guyotat with whom he created « Issê Timossé » at the Montpellier Dance Festival, a play where raw dance reveals a savage and violent revolt against all forms of domination; and the director Claire Denis, with whom he collaborated in « Beau Travail ». From 1995 to 2000, he co-directed with Catherine Diverrès the National Choreographic Center of Rennes and Brittany and then became artist associated with Quartz, directed by Jacques Blanc.
He created « O.More », with gnawa musicians, a pivotal piece, which deeply marked his artistic journey and led him in 2003 to be the director of the National
Choreographic Center of Tours, which he invented as a sensitive and poetic shared
space. He created nine pieces, carried by demand and radicality, dealing with subjects that are dear to him: colonialism, memory, identity, body consciousness,
resistance. Each choreography emerges from the previous one to create an image
that is both similar and different: bodies, in their poetic and political dimension,
replay the world around us. He created nine pieces, carried by demand
and radicality, dealing with subjects that are dear to him: colonialism, memory, identity, body consciousness, resistance. Each choreography emerges from the previous one to create an image that is both similar and different: bodies, in their poetic and political dimension, replay the world around us.
In 2014 and 2015, artist associate with the Théâtre Louis Aragon in Tremblayen-France, he created « Lux Tenebrae » and took over « O.More ». In parallel, he
proposed, from the Breton territory, an open approach to dance combining research,
demand, and benevolence. He accompanies artistic journeys and adventures
in France and abroad.
