L'Age d'Or
by Éric Minh Cuong Castaing
30 Sept. from 2pm to 6pm
1st oct. from 10am to 6pm
2 oct. from 10am to 6pm
3 oct. from 10am to 6pm
4 oct. from 10am to 6pm
5 oct. from 10am to 6pm
6 oct. from 10am to 6pm
7 oct. from 10am to 6pm
8 oct. from 10am to 6pm
9 oct. from 10am to 6pm
Caserne El Attarine
Audi Talents 2017, Festival de Marseille, Ballet National de Marseille, French Ministry for Culture DGCA Dance Delegation, Regional Council Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, CNC-CVS, DICRéAM, Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, Ville de Marseille, Festival Parallèle. With the assistance of Saint-Thys Motor Education Institute (Marseille).
Special thanks to : the children from Saint-Thys Motor Education Institute, their parents and their care takers, Emio Greco, Pieter C.Scholten, Jan Goossens, Julie Moreira Miguel, Bruno Le Baillif, Gaël Charbau, Laurent Vinauger, Aurélien Guillois, Emeline Villard, Lou Colombani, Gaëlle Massicot Bitty, Caroline Dumont, Emilie Gillot, Anne-Sophie Turion, Patrick Padovani, Eva Cecci - Sophie Craipeau, Sandra Guitton- Philippe, Colette Limouzin, Sandrine Pagni, Charlotte Rogeaux, Eric Roman, Emilie Se, Toorralva Martinez Marta, Noelia Torres, Wisniewska Carolina, Richard Sarfati and Carole Soler, Patrick Contois, Blanche Feugier, Blé de l’Espérance and Fondation La Bonne Jeanne. Carolina, Richard Sarfati et Carole Soler, Patrick Contois, Blanche Feugier, le Blé de l’Espérance et la Fondation La Bonne Jeanne.
Video
A diptych made up of a film and a performance, L’Âge d’Or is a journey offering different points of view linked to a specific reality: a choreographic experiment, made by children with motor disorders and dancers, associating bodily technics and new technologies. The film captures the emotion of the children involved in a shared dance, in an infinite negotiation with their bodies that are not usually seen in performance, and then in a set-up inspired by “virtual reality”, in which they are equipped with glasses allowing them to see in real time what the dancers see.
Exalting physical and sensitive particularities, envisaging film images through the prism of the vibrant aesthetic of bodies in motion, Eric Minh Cuong Castaing’s short film strays from a documentary towards a fiction inspired by this encounter. More than just a testimony, this film brings to life those months of the dancer-choreographer’s work in a specialized medical institute, thus becoming a free-standing, poetic work.