ELPMAS
Moondog
"Masterful" - Rolling Stone (France)
Produced and released in the beginning of the 90’s, Elpmas is a genuine concept-album which uses the woody tones of the marimbas, numerous field recordings and borrowings from Japanese musical forms to sketch an ode to nature and a manifesto against the ill-treatment of the aboriginal peoples.
Louis Thomas Hardin, 1916 (Kansas, USA) – 1999 (Munster, Germany), is without doubt one of the most peculiar composers of this 20th century he travelled throughout. A visionary blind man, a symphonist hobo and an unknown legend, he is the architect of a unique and extensive body of work in which Plain Indians-inspired jazz, contrapuntal composing borrowed from Joan Sebastian Bach and a science of melody mingle, a work which has fascinated the world of pop.
The 91 Moondog album Elpmas was made mostly on computer with sampled sounds. In 2018, ensemble 0 has recorded a new version of it entirely with real acoustic instruments. To this day, ensemble 0 is the only group performing Elpmas live on stage.
Total duration: 72’
Personnel: Amélie Grould (marimba, xylophone), Julien Garin (bombo, marimba, glockenspiel), Stéphane Garin (marimba, xylophone, bombo, toy piano), Barbara Hünninger (viola da gamba), Vincent Malassis (electronics), Joël Mérah (zither, banjo), Julien Pontvianne (saxophones, clarinet) + Macadam ensemble, Etienne Ferchaud (choir & lead voice)
Production: ensemble 0 / Variations festival - Le Lieu Unique, scène nationale de Nantes
Co-production: La Centrifugeuse (Pau)
Past performances: Variations festival (Lieu Unique, Nantes) / La Centrifugeuse (Pau) / Festival de la Cité (La Perchée, Lausanne) / Teatro Estudio (Bogotá) / Salle Nougaro (Toulouse) / Festival Musique Action (CCAM, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy) / Festival Traversées (TAP, Poitiers) / Les Passerelles (Pontault-Combault) / SNSA (Apollo, Boucau) / Opera (Dijon) / La Philharmonie (Paris, 4 shows)
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CROCODILE
Martin Harriague / Emilie Leriche / ensemble 0
"A Treat" - Le Monde
"A gem" - Le Figaro
"A little masterpiece" - l'Humanité
Four years after Fossile, a duet inspired by the ecological crisis and the connections between humanity and the planet, Martin Harriague once again chooses the duet format, this time presenting a dance of love that, at first glance, might seem far removed from the social and environmental concerns that have defined his work...
Crocodile depicts the coming together of two bodies that harmonize, punctuate, and question one another, much like words that come together during an encounter: that of the choreographer and the dancer Emilie Leriche, with whom he creates and performs the piece. The bodies draw closer, avoid one another, follow one another, brush against one another, and finally come into contact. Their gazes lock and never let go, in an unpredictable, hypnotic, and moving synchrony.
A refined and delicate piece that oscillates between attraction and repulsion, gentleness and conflict, in which the choreographer conveys love and its fragility through living bodies in search of harmony.
Durée : 60’
Avec : Martin Harriague (danseur, chorégraphe) Emilie Leriche (danseuse), Stéphane Garin (marimba), Julien Garin (marimba)
Production : Scène Nationale Sud Aquitain, Scène 55 Mougins, Temps d'Aimer la danse Biarritz, M alandain Ballet Biarritz, MH Production, Ensemble 0
Performances passées : Le Temps d'Aimer (Biarritz), Scène Nationale Sud Aquitain (Bayonne), Festival Cadences (Arcachon), Scène 55 (Mougins)
