A chance to play! Better yet, an invitation! Memory of the Future, Riccarda Montenero, Dark stories – Dance with the sacral body... Play with whom? This time? Christine Chardonnier, this flautist captured by liberty, with her smashing tonguing and a desire to move which she does not repress... It’ll work, everything fits – the images, the space, the conditions... And so we’ll discover in real time what we see and hear and what we want to hear.
EK, Paris, September 16, 2023
Silence
Listening
A glance
Reactions, shapes, positions…a sonorous animation of photos, echoes…
To feel, to let it happen and then sculpt the space depending on location, acoustics, other musical proposals, on sensations and internal music.
Let the sounds ring, resonate, intertwine…
Make emotions and reminiscences vibrate through the breath.
Shape the ineffable, the poetry of the moment
CC, Paris, Septemb
Eugenie Kuffler
Christine Chardonnier
A classical formation in different Conservatories - flute, theory, harmony, analysis and a musicology cursus at Sorbonne University. And then, depending on encounters, a musical journey going from the classical orchestra (Alfred Loewenguth, Ernst Schelle, Sergui Celibidache), to jazz (The Edim School with Bruno Whillhem, Daniel Beaussier, Bob Revel…) to salsa, to contempory music (Philippe Drogoz, « l’Armucom », « l’instant donné »).
And to broaden her horizons – dance and sensorial movement (Martha Rodezno), accordion, piano, clown (Vincent Rouche, Françoise Simon…); collaborations with dancers (Compagnie Cécile Berrebi), poets (accompanying readings at l’Harmattan), comedians (le kaléidoscope bleu).
She teaches and performs regularly.
Improvisation encompasses these varied interests - the love of sound, of instantaneous expression, of unexpected encounters, of shared and renewed exploration at every moment.
Eugenie Kuffler
GUEST ARTIST
Eugénie Kuffler
born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, emigrated to Paris in 1967 where she studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Max Deutsch and Henri Dutilleux, flûte with Alain Marion and electro-acoustical music at the GRM. In 1970 she joined the GERM, a composer-performer collective; in 1973 Philippe Drogoz and she founded 010 an avant-garde cabaret ensemble. In 1980 she created the solo tryptic icara night: icara or the flight inward, iris, from moon to water, a piece which continues to orient her work. She creates radio works for France Culture – J/E, adapted from The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig, codirected with Syn Guérin ; the ecstatic spiral notebooks. In 1995 Nathalie Braux, Aldridge Hansberry, Hélène Bass, Francine Mercier and she founded the composer-performer collective Hot Chills and played together until 2012. In 2000 she founded Conexión Habana, a troop of 8 Cubain dancers, musicians and comedians plus herself and through 2007, premiered 6 chapters of Etno Poesía Cuba in Havana. Currently she improvises with whoever’s out there and is preparing a music-theater solo – Survival Technics.
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Riccarda Montenero is a graduate of the Lecce Academy of Fine Arts and holds a degree in architecture from the University of Turin.
Two of her large-scale works can be seen in the gardens of the Royal Palace in Turin. She exhibits and participates in cultural events in Italy and abroad, film-video-art festivals and collaborates with artists and intellectuals, resulting in editorial publications and interdisciplinary performances. She works in the fields of photography, sculpture and 3D digital art.
In 2011, She participated in the 54ᵅ international edition of the Venice Biennale, Italian pavilion (Piedmont) curated by Vittorio Sgarbi. In 2022, she took part in the Milan Photofestival, winning the "Le immagini rilegate" competition with the volume "Inhabited by Fear": "...An investigation into the body and gesture that the photographer proposes with nearly seventy shots full of strength and mystery".
Her artistic projects are part of a humanist approach, through which she attempts to bring out the invisible and confront us with the violence she is confronted with.
She collaborates with Mémoire de l'Avenir- Humanities, Arts and Society in Paris.
Lives and works between Paris and Turin
From November 3rd to the 30th, Mémoire de l'Avenir will host Riccarda Montenero's exhibition titled "(HI)STORY(S)".
Through her camera's lens, Riccarda Montenero portrays the "DANCE OF THE SACRAL BODY IN SHADOW AND LIGHT."
The central theme of this project is longing, and the creative force of desiring a body that, within a dance movement, is generating unusual forms and lays itself bare, powerful and vulnerable.
Riccarda refers to a fundamental energy, to a dimension of the body's animality, an archaic dimension that she considers sacred.
The staging encompasses the excessive, wild, obscene body, exposed and consumed by a desiring gaze; the obscure, ancestral, light-bearing energy that illuminates the body in its ambiguity; the intimate desire of the flesh to abandon itself to the unconsciousness, to the intimate motion, dancing beyond the restrained body...
These aspects are what Riccarda Montenero aimed to portray in "Dance of the Sacral Body in Shadow and Light."
In this new body of work (2023), she explores five themes, such as HISTOIRES SOMBRES, LA CIBLE DU DÉSIR, LA CHAIR DE L'AUTRE, VERTIGE, et DANS LA LUMIÈRE.
by Riccarda Montenero
EXHIBITION PRESENTATION
SOLO EXPOSITION
2 - 30 Novmbre
VERNISSAGE
VENDREDI 03 NOVEMBRE
Riccarda Montenero
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OPENING 03 Nov 2023
7PM-9PM
PERFORMANCE 8PM
FRIDAY November 02 at 8PM
Improvesation and Composition a musical performance
duration : 20 minutes approx.
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