NOBOLERO

‘NOBOLERO, a performing art project made on intellectual property, dreams and artistic movement in collaboration with neuro scientist of sleep Dr. Joelle Adrien et musician Madmoizel on the original music score of the Bolero by Maurice Ravel.’

world premiere March 17, 2016

Centre Pompidou Metz ,FR

Chantal Yzermans’ work questions how we perceive and inhabit an iconic piece of art: what we see through it, and what we are compelled to see. In NOBOLERO, she engages directly with Ravel’s Boléro—originally premiered at the Paris Opéra on 22 November 1928, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska for dancer Ida Rubinstein—and Béjart’s celebrated ballet version of 1960, using these historic interpretations as a lens to examine the origins and originality of movement, discharging it from conventional references to reveal its pure essence, while questioning how artistic gestures evolve and resonate across time, history, and collective memory. By connecting dance with scientific research on sleep and the origins of dreams, in collaboration with neuroscientist Dr. Joëlle Adrien, the work generates a ritualistic experience. Constantly oscillating between intellect and intuition, NOBOLERO transforms performance into a meditation on the origins of movement, perception, and the dreaming mind, engaging both body and consciousness in an ancestral dialogue.

As a resident in la Cité des Arts Paris (2014), Chantal Yzermans started a research on this project in collaboration with Dr. Joelle Adrien, neuro scientist of sleep and head of the research group at INSERM / Faculté de Médecine Pitié- Salpétrière-Paris. Dr. Joelle Adrien has been working at La Salpétrière for over more than 30 years on a research about sleep behaviour in new-borns and foetus. 

Questioning the interpretation of a work of art and where does the originality of a piece stand, the focus is to join into a continuous dialogue with our artistic research and engagement on appropriation, the idea of originality, the relation between power and creativity, dreams as intellectual property.

concept & dance Chantal Yzermans

lecture performance Dr. Joelle Adrien

live MADMOIZEL

musique  Boléro of Ravel

dramaturgy Mark Geurden & Koen Bollen

costume Jean Paul Lespagnard

light Elke Verachtert

Coproduction: Centre Pompidou Metz (FR) Jan Fabre / Troubleyn (BE),

Kultuurfaktorij Monty (BE), TAKT Dommelhof (BE)

art residencies

Cité des arts internationales Paris (FR)

Kunstencentrum Vooruit (BE), 

Teatros del Canal Madrid (ES)

video Laetitia Bica Guido Verelst Sylvia Zade-Routier