Frédéric Flamand
| Frédéric Flamand | |
|---|---|
 La Vérité 25x par seconde The Truth 25 times a second Ballet National de Marseille installation by Ai Weiwei | |
| Born |
1946 Brussels |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | Choreographer |
| Known for | Charleroi / Danses |
Frédéric Flamand (born 1946 in Brussels), is a Belgian actor, director, choreographer and dance company director.
Biography
Frédéric Flamand founded the "Plan K" dance company in 1973. From 1979 it occupied a former sugar refinery located in Molenbeek.[1] Always a lover of multidisciplinary art, in that location he hosted artists such as Bob Wilson, William Burroughs, Steve Lacy, Decouflé, Marie Chouinard, Joy Division and the Eurythmics.
As director and choreographer Frédéric Flamand worked with many architects including Fabrizio Plessi, and later Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Thom Mayne and more recently Dominique Perrault and the Campana brothers, seeking primarily to connect the body of the moving dancer to the surrounding architecture.[1]
Appointed head of the former Royal Ballet of Wallonia in 1991, Frédéric Flamand renamed the company Charleroi / Danses.[1] It became the first contemporary dance company in Belgium. Flamand made the institution well known not only in Belgium but also internationally.[2] On 28 February 1998, Maurice Bejart was condemned by the Belgian courts for his choreography of Presbytery which plagiarized an extract from Frédéric Flamand's The Fall of Icarus. In it we see a winged dancer cross the stage with video monitors as shoes.[3]
In September 2004, Frédéric Flamand was appointed general manager of the Ballet National de Marseille and the Marseille National School of Dance.[1] Since 2005 he has been assisted by Eric Vu-An. He was also appointed the artistic director of the International Dance Festival of Cannes for the period 2011-2013.
Main choreographies
- With the Plan K
- 1980: Quarantine
- 1984: Scan Lines
- 1987: If Pyramids Were Square
- 1989: The Fall of Icarus with Fabrizio Plessi
- Charleroi / Danses
- 1992: Titanic with Fabrizio Plessi
- 1994: Ex Machina with Fabrizio Plessi
- 1994: Hull and Machinery
- 1996: Speed and Memory
- 1996: Moving Target with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio[4]
- 1998: EJM 1 and 2 'with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio
- 1998: Gender
- 2000: Metapolis with Zaha Hadid
- 2000: The Future of Work with Jean Nouvel
- 2001: Body / Work / Leisure with Jean Nouvel
- 2003: Silent Collisions with Thom Mayne
- 2005: Eight in collaboration with Marion Ballester
- For the National Ballet of Marseille
- 2005: The Radiant City with Dominique Perrault[5]
- 2006: Metapolis II with Zaha Hadid
- 2007: Metamorphosis with Humberto and Fernando Campana[6]
- 2009: The Trouble of Narcissus[7]
- 2010: The Truth 25 times a second with Ai Weiwei
References
- 1 2 3 4 Rosita Boisseau (2006). Panorama de la danse contemporaine. 90 chorégraphes. Paris: Éditions Textuel. pp. 204–205.
- ↑ "Presentation". Charleroi Danses. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
- ↑ Le Soir and Libération (journal) from 28 February 1998.
- ↑ "Frédéric Flamand / Diller + Scofidio > Moving target". numeridanse.tv. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ↑ "Frédéric Flamand / Dominique Perrault > Le cite radieuse". numeridanse.tv. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
- ↑ "Intégrale de Métamorphoses". numeridanse.tv.
- ↑ "Intégrale du Trouble de Narcisse". numeridanse.tv.
Further reading
- Susanne Franco, Frédéric Flamand, the Epos, Palermo, 2004 ( ISBN 88-8302-265-3 )