Festival De l’impertinence

Performance

For all.
Free, on registration from 21 July (no bookings before this date) : 04 67 74 94 37 or inscription.crac@laregion.fr

De l’impertinence is a hybrid event: both an artistic research residency and a dance gathering in Sète. Every year, the lab invites a group of artists to create performances on partner sites in Sète, many of which are not dedicated to the performing arts.

Every artist is also asked to present a work in progress, the idea being to open their research to the public, showing “impertinent” works in development.

  • 6.30p.m. : bouche, bave, main
    Solo by Clarissa Baumann
    Language touches the tongue and the tongue rolls out of the mouth like a thread caught between the hands in the warmth of saliva. The warm-wet-tongue tangle merges with the lines of the hands, the lines of space, unrolling, spreading out and settling on the ground.
    Cartographer hands, lacking (or replacing) words advance in the space, drawing, sketching gestures in the air, tracing the contours of that which is not, or no longer, or not yet…
  • 7.15p.m. : LeatherBetter (work in progress)
    by Andréa Givanovitch in collaboration with Paul JF Fleury.
    LeatherBetter is a sensory and choreographic quest in which leather, a living metaphor, embodies the tensions between symbolic weight and liberation. Through friction, repetition and exhaustion, the performance questions notions of masculinity, transformation, and queer identity.
  • 8p.m. : Leonor performance by Collectif De l’impertinence #4
    On the Crac forecourt, the collective presents a new performance based on the exhibition by Leonor Antunes: its forms, its themes and the paths it takes.
  • 8.30p.m. : Time to mingle around the performative buffet created by Arturo Franzino.
Biographies des artistes invités :

Andréa Givanovitch is a French dancer and choreographer based in Paris. After graduating from SEAD, he performed in pieces by Ohad Naharin, Damien Jalet, Mathilde Monnier, Patricia Apergi, Jan Lauwers, and Christian & François Ben Aïm. In April 2024 with Clara Lou Munié , he co-founded the Melted Milk collective based in Toulouse, Occitanie.

Paul JF Fleury is a music artist, researcher and author from Orléans. Trained in philosophy and a graduate of the EHESS, today he is conducting PhD research on the use of AI in music production. As a composer and performer, he makes music under the pseudonym Jeune Faune. From noise music to experimental pop, his sound work is characterised by an evocative and immersive approach, bringing maximalism and minimalism into dialogue. He has collaborated with such choreographers as Georges Labbat, Tilhenn Klapper and Sorour Darabi.

Arturo Franzino is a chef. Having vaguely drifted everywhere and nowhere, in 2024 he found himself becoming chef-in-residence of the French Academy at Villa Médicis. In love with Rome, he stayed there to try weaving a network of producers, artisans, farmers, friends and artists. Gatherings surrounding food, music and wine. Spontaneous gatherings, guided by a desire to experiment, or just to surrender to the intoxication of a natural wine, no matter which.

Clarissa Baumann is a visual artist and choreographer based in Sète. Mirroring her work’s multiple forms (books, installations, performances, videos), her practice springs from the poetic, phonetic and gestural fissures she perceives in the spaces she crosses, the stories of people she encounters, as well as archives and references that she brings into dialogue. Having initially studied industrial design in Rio de Janeiro and fine art at the Beaux- Arts de Paris, she got involved in dance and circus performance before completing an exerce master’s degree at ICI-CCN Montpellier. She is co-founder of Laboratoire Chorégraphique COHUE in Montpellier.

Photo : LeatherBetter (work in progress) d’Andréa Givanovitch en collaboration avec Paul JF Fleury - photo de Camille Graule.

Date: Wednesday 13 August

Time: From 6.30 to 9.30p.m.

Location: Crac Occitanie - 26, quai Aspirant Herber
34200 Sète (Hérault)
Crac Occitanie, Centre régional d'art contemporain

Free event

Audience: Tout public

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