Artiste

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Carolyn Carlson Company

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Type
Dance

Audience
All audiences

Carolyn Carlson has never stopped going from group creation and ballet to soli, either for herself or for dancers who inspire her profoundly.

To her, it constitutes the essential form of the choreographic work. It is a moment of direct link to dance, a possibility to go back to oneself and a search for the ultimate tone of the unique and pure gesture. Irremediably the choreographer goes back to the solo, as a quest for her own essence.

In an ever more talkative and individualistic world, society suffers from our incapacity to express our inner humanity. Dance, and the solo in particular, offer a visual communication through emotion and perception, without the deflection of the spoken word.

The Seventh man
Solo. Creation 2019

Inspired by « The Seventh » by the poet of the Hungarian Uprising Attila JÓZSEF, The Seventh man embodies the breaks, reconstructions and promises of the present that every human being experiment all along their lives.

Choregraphy
Carolyn Carlson

Cast
Riccardo Meneghini

Music
Guillaume Perret

Lights
Guillaume Bonneau

Production
Carolyn Carlson Company

Co-production
Théâtre Georges Leygues, Villeneuve sur lot

Thanks to
CCN de Roubaix, Studio 28 Roubaix – Cie Zahrbat, CDCN Atelier de Paris pour leur prêt de studios avec le soutien financier de Tilder

The Seventh woman
Creation - 2020 in Festival Bolzano danza

Carolyn Carlson offers a sensitive and totally reworked variation of the opening of The Seventh man, adapted to a woman. As an introduction to Riccardo Meneghini’s solo, Sara Orselli embodies the inner lights that originate from our disruptions with grace and subtlety. Calling the infinite in each gesture, the dancer offers us a brief moment of mindfulness.

Choregraphy
Carolyn Carlson

Cast
Sara Orselli

Music
Guillaume Perret

Lights
Guillaume Bonneau

Duration
8 minutes

Production
Carolyn Carlson Company

Thanks to
Agnès b.

Mandala
Solo. Creation 2010, Festival June Events, Paris

Mandala is an incarnation of the human heartbeat, a constituent of the space universally shared by every being, from the beginning to the end of our existence.

Choregraphy
Carolyn Carlson

Cast
Sara Orselli

Music
Michael Gordon

Lights
Freddy Bonneau

Costume
Chrystel Zingiro

Line production
Carolyn Carlson Company

Original production
Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Nord-Pas de calais avec la collaboration de l’Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson

Wind woman
Solo. Creation 2011, Lodz (Pologne)

With Wind woman, Carolyn Carlson questions transient feelings. With Céline Maufroid, who has interpreted her creations for several years now, she has started listening to the breaths surrounding us and those coming from within our bodies. Wind woman invites everyone to listen, to feel the world’s breath as well as its own’s.

Either it is soft or extremely powerful, wind flows without lasting. The choreographer chose to explore all its aspects by turning this solo created in 2011 for dancer Celine Maufroid, into a duet with dancer Sara Simeoni. The two performers follow one another in their singular performances.

Choregraphy
Carolyn Carlson

Cast
Céline Maufroid, Sara Simeoni

Music
Nicolas de Zorzi

Lights
Guillaume Bonneau

Line production
Carolyn Carlson Company

Original production
Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais
avec le soutien du Teatro San Carlo, Naples

In the Night
Solo. Creation 2012, Colisée Théâtre de Roubaix

In the night, a thousand luminous mirrors tread on our inner darkness. An open door to the mysteries of reflection.

Choregraphy
Carolyn Carlson

Cast
Chinatsu Kosakatani

Music
Laurie Anderson

Soun Creation
Nicolas de Zorzi

Lights
Guillaume Bonneau

Line production
Carolyn Carlson Company

Original production
Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais / Le Colisée – Théâtre de Roubaix

A Deal With Instinct (titre provisoire)
Solo. Création 2023

For this 2023 creation, Carolyn Carlson has chosen to work with Yutaka Nakata, who has been collaborating with her for 15 years. Drawing her inspiration from nature, Zen Buddhism and the martial arts, the choreographer wishes to evoke the animal instinct that lies dormant in each of us and the symbolism of the mountain. Playing on the energies and principles of mindfulness, Yutaka, experienced in Tai-chi and Qi Gong techniques, will invoke the powers of the tiger or the snake to represent the search for balance in the instability of today’s world.

Choregraphy
Carolyn Carlson

Cast
Yutaka Nakata

Music
Aleksi Aubry-Carlson

Duration
15 minutes

Lights
Guillaume Bonneau

Production
Carolyn Carlson Company

Co-production
Quartier Libre Productions, Le Théâtre de Fontainebleau, Le Carré-Bellefeuille, Boulogne-Billancourt