Early draft / March 2015

Running time / around 1h15First production / October 2015 Théâtre de l’Archipel, SN de PerpignanConcept, artistic direction / Adrien Mondot & Claire Bardainne

Contact /Adrien M / Claire B +33 4 27 78 63 42 contact@am-cb.netBooking, production / Charlotte Auché diffusion@am-cb.net

S H O W D I G I T A L A R T S & D A N C E

OF AIRTHE MOVEMENTAdrien M / Claire B

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Research pictures / Residency at La brèche, Pôle national des arts du cirque, Cherbourg-Octeville, october 2014

Duration around 75 mn Spectacle frontal

Creation team / in progress :Conception, artistic direction, scenography and stage setting: Claire Bardainne & Adrien MondotComputer desgin: Adrien MondotChoreography : Yan RaballandDance : Rémi Boissy, Farid-Ayelem Rahmouni, Maëlle ReymondChoreographical collaboration: Guillaume BertrandLight design: David DebrinayMusic : Jérémy ChartierCostumes : Marina PujadasSet design & fly systems Silvain OhlGeneral management and sound engineering: Pierre XuclaStage Management: Arnaud GonzalezLight engineering: Yan GodatiT development: anomes, Hand CodedTechnical direction: Alexis BergeronProduction and booking: : Charlotte auché, Marek vuiton, Margaux létang

Production : Adrien M / Claire B

Coproducers / in progress:Théâtre de L’Archipel, scène nationale de PerpignanLe Cirque-Théâtre d’ElbeufFestival GREC, Barcelone (Espagne)Maison des arts, scène nationale de Créteil et du val-de-Marnela brèche, Pôle national des arts du cirque, Cherbourg-Octeville Centre des Arts d’Enghien-les-Bains, scène conventionnée pour les écritures numériquesespace Jean legendre, Théâtre de Compiègne, scène nationale de l’Oise en préfigurationl’Odyssée, institut national des arts du mime et du geste de PérigueuxCentre chorégraphique national de Créteil et du val-de-Marne / Cie Käfig, dans le cadre de l’accueil Studiol’Hexagone, scène nationale arts-Sciences de Meylan

Supports:Le Toboggan, scène conventionnée de DécinesLes Subsistances, laboratoire international de création artistique, LyonMaison de la culture de Nevers et de la Nièvre The Adrien M / Claire B Company is accredited by DRAC Rhône-alpes, Rhône-alpes region and is supported by the City of Lyon.

Technical conditions

Front showStage / required dimensions (to be confirmed) :- 12,5 m opening- 13 m depth- 8 m height under pipesSetting around 6 work periods Capacity 400 to 1000 people, no maxiCrew 9 people on tour

A front show designed for three dancers in an immersive environment shaped by projected images. Those are computer-generated for the dancers to play with, making up a digital score performed live by a digital interpreter. The performance matches seemingly impossible visions: images look alive while bodies fly, defying gravity. The acrobatic and digital choreography outlines a body language that involves a new relationship to time, space and the whole world. Beyond looking for technical achievement, what matters is the attempt at creating a motion dreamscape by way of images.

The Movement of Air

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Images & inspirations

Purple mist, ann veronica Janssens, 2003 James Turell, Ganzfeld Apani, 2011dominic H nGuyen, Gun

ryan Hopkinson, Aeolus

Fujiko Nakaya (brouillard)David Spriggs (image holographique)Etienne Jules Marey, Étude de fluides, mouvements de l’air, 1901

Olafur eliasson, Le projet météorologique, Turbine Hall, Tate Gallery, 2003 Odilon redon, L’œil comme un ballon

bizarre se dirige vers l’infini, 1882Denis Darzac, Série des chutes, 2005 Alistair McClymont, The Limitations of Logic

and the Absence of Absolute Certainty, 2010nils völker, Thirty Six, 2011Tara Donovan

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Research pictures / Residency at CDA of Enghien-les-bains, July 2014

Theme: air imaginary a leap into the void, game, weightlessness, verticality, suspension, sky, cloud, diffuse, fall, void, floor, support, momentum, illusion, unreal, dematerialization, lightness, heaviness, inside out, upside down, rocking, wind, breathing, surrendering, gravity, invisible, dream...

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Research pictures / Residency at CDA of Enghien-les-bains, July 2014

Space: a living territory between the material and the digital

We wish to remove images from screens, to turn them into landscapes, into playing partners, and to put them at the center of the space mapping.

The set is inhabited by a 3 face structure: two vertical panels of white gauze and a white dance floor are asymmetrically combined to create an immersive projection system (heir to Cave virtual reality systems). Thanks to this device many diverse realms can arise. Alternately, they can be:- realistic or geometrical, so that projections fit the material structure shape and match the edges and surfaces ;- organic and evanescent, as the white gauze becomes transparent and vanishes to the eye. Graphic elements then seem to be floa-ting and drifting, making the air inherent to the scene cage tangible.

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Research pictures / Residency at CDA of Enghien-les-bains, July 2014

Body: a dancers’ trio

On stage three performers can float around space. driven by verticality they struggle between enthusiasm and anguish, between falling down and rising up. Their bodies define a new and unusual language that draws its inspiration from the ordinary but trans-poses it in a poetic way. This language plays with reality to explore a living kinetic art territory where bodies evolve between abs-traction and emotion. It is a quest for a motion-driven onirism.

In addition to projected images, uplifting and suspension devices allow bodies to rise up in the air without any magical trick.The dancers work on their sense of weight and balance with the floor, they devise illusory aerial trajectories and juggle with space. The body motion transcend the possible to reach the impossible and the images’ immaterial realms.

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Research pictures / Residency at Théâtre de l’Archipel, SN of Perpignan, April 2014

Writing: organizing forces

This show is not grounded on a text.Its language is based on the combination of video images, bodies, space and sound.nowadays, digital technology has shaken up stage crafts so that we feel like explorers within new continents. We call « writing » the trace we leave on these territories. To us, it is about writing with the elements in a similar spirit to Land Art, it is playing with nature and its forces. However, here, fire, snow, sand, water, smoke and rocks are digital and virtual, and so the bearers of a newer ani-mism. It is then a matter of organizing the forces of the digital nature and guiding its energies, to achieve a rhythmic work with the projected images drawing on the intentions at the very motion’s core. It is about writing with a passion for motion.

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Research pictures / Residency at CDA of Enghien-les-bains, July 2014

Image: a playing partner

This « living light » is produced by video projectors and generated in real time by a set of algorithms. it is a mix of control room operated human interventions and onstage sensors data that outlines a precise writing of motions and generative behaviors. Thus, those images are never prerecorded for a rigid show on an imposed rhythm: on the contrary, they breathe and move with the dancers and organize a new space for them to explore.Sometimes they are graphically minimalistic and embody simple environments like cloudy or snowy skies. Sometimes they are more anthropomorphic and turn into ghosts, puppets, doppelgängers or shadows. in every case the audience is transported by their movements’ sensuality and energy. They are generated according to physical models and therefore remind everyone of their own real life experience and imaginary of motion.

These processes can show inner landscapes as well as reveal the invisible, make one feel the tiny big, or turn out to be an absurd and merciless infernal machinery. Eventually, even though computer-generated, our images are deeply sensitive and human and used as an integral part of the scenography and dramaturgy. In the audience’s eyes, they have lost their image status to become a territory as well as a playing partner.

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Research pictures / Residency at CDA of Enghien-les-bains, July 2014

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Research pictures / Residency at Théâtre de l’Archipel, SN of Perpignan, April 2014

IT tools

as part of the company’s reflection about motion and the objects’ choreography we have continued developing a software since 2006, which initiates every creation and collaboration and is maintained as their core.

The objective for this software named eMotion (for electronic motion) is to write down the interactions between images and bo-dies in the realms of performing arts. It is based on physical models in order to animate various situations: it focuses on the inner energy that causes objects to move, rather than on their actual movement patterns. All images are thus generated, calculated and projected live, in order to create a sensory synthesis, a tangible reality on stage.

In 2014 an important change in IT research began within the company when it joined forces with the Anomes company and its founder Philippe Chaurand.Famous for creating the Milumin software, Anomes is currently upgrading its audiovisual shows’ creation and management software. The company will therefore delegate to this software all general audiovisual management aspects in order to focus eMotion development on its specific core : the objects’ motion. at the same time the air project will serve as an experimental field for anomes’ future software.

eMotion 2.0 is then to be understood as a powerful and very specialized plug-in integrated into a strong generalist tool thanks to Anomes’ high quality development skills. eMotion 2.0 will remain the company’s property and will not be commercialized. Tuto-rials and exchange fora will be there to help the users’ community and allow a living and continuous evolution of the software.

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Light: color temptation, air material

We long to reveal color through light to counterpoise the white and black video projections and to allow everyone to experience skies in their diversity: whether they show slight different shades, whether they are clear and bright or whether they spread an enveloping color. We want to turn the inside outside and give the audience the impression they truly see and even feel the depth of the invisible, of a phantom presence that speaks for itself. To materialize the immaterial. We have an appetite for vibration, halo and spray.

Images de recherche / Résidence au CDA d’Enghien-les-bains, juillet 2014

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Hakanaï / show, 2013 photo © Romain Etienne - item

Cinématique / show, 2010

Un point c’est tout / conference show, 2011

XYZT Les paysages abstraits / exhibition, 2011

Artistic journey

Searching for a live digital world

The adrien M / Claire B Company has been acting in the fields of the digital arts and performing arts since 2004. They create many forms of art, from stage performances to exhibitions combining real and virtual worlds with IT tools that were developed and customised specifically for them. They place the human body at the heart of technological and artistic challenges and adapt today’s technological tools to create a timeless poetry through a visual language based on playing and enjoyment, which breeds imagination. The projects have been carried out by Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne since 2011 when they refounded the company. Adrien Mondot is a multi-disciplinary artist, computer scientist, IT specialist and juggler who investigates and inquires about movement.Claire Bardainne is a visual artist, graphic designer and scenographer, who holds degrees from the Ecole Estienne and the arts déco in Paris. Her research focuses on the link between graphic signs, images and space, exploring back-and-forth shifts between the imaginary and the real worlds.

Five years after Cinématique and almost 10 years after Convergence 1.0 this third long-lasting performance gets back to circus arts’ languages. it develops a specific writing that is based on the close relationship between the circus body and a digital imaginary space that creates illusion. This new performance happens after two experiments that are close to but lightly differ from theatrical shows : a conference-show called Un point c’est tout and a choreographic performance named Hakanaï. The company also created XYZT abstract landscapes, an exhibition that immerse the audience in a luxuriant digital territory.

This new creation reaffirms the essential focus of the company’s artisitc research which can be listed as follow:

A thoughtful digital technology for the benefit of performing arts. In order to preserve the force of the live presence on stage and then transpose it to the digital medium, all images are generated, computed and projected live.

The idea of digital writing and performance of digital scores. Through a musical approach to the images and an instrumental approach to the computer program, the experience of the moment is emphasized.

Interactive ways of overcoming the technical challenge.Using capturing systems from video game technology (for their power in calculation and reactivity) combined to a work of virtual puppetry (for the value of human intuition and its dreaming ability) allows us to offer the audience this sensitive experience.

Use of the unconscious experience of movement.The computing and mathematical models come from the observation of Nature. This private and unconscious experience of movement creates an imaginary world where abstract graphic forms turn into evocative worlds.

The structuration of coincidences.The gestures interfere with the images to engender verisimilitude and coherence. Building strong bridges between the digital and real resources allows the turning of the virtual into an extension of the real.

It is most certainly this concept of extended body for an extended reality that makes the AIR project special. Body motions transcend the limits of possible to reach the impossible of immaterial realms.

It is the fourth company’s project that is cosigned by both Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne.

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Creation scheduleNovember-December 2012 : ENSATT, Lyon June-July 2013 : Atelier AMCB, Lyon17th, 18th, 19th of June 2013 : Auditions / Les Subsistances, Lyon January 2014 : Les Subsistances, LyonJanuary 2014 : CCn de Créteil et du val-de-MarneApril 2014 : Théâtre de l’Archipel, PerpignanJuly 2014 : CDA (Centre of the Arts) Enghien-les-Bains October 2014 : la Brèche, Pôle national des arts du cirque de Basse-normandie, CherbourgDecember 2014 : Atelier AMCB, lyonapril 2015 : l’Hexagone, national venue for arts and Sciences, Meylan August-September 2015 : Maison de la culture de Nevers et de la Nièvre, NeversOctober 2015 : first representation at Théâtre de l’archipel, Perpignan

Partners and coproducersThéâtre de l’Archipel / « Scène nationale » of Perpignan, this theater is a venue for the diffusion and creation of various per-forming arts. It is the main coproducer of AIR and it has already received the company in residency in April 2014 and it will host the première during 2015 fall.

Cirque-théâtre d’Elbeuf / National center for circus arts since 2012, the Cirique-théâtre is a venue for diffusion, creation, pro-duction, discovery and a meeting place for artists at an international scale in the fields of nowadays circus arts. it participates in Air as a coproducer and will present the show in April 2016.

GREC Festival of Barcelona / The GREC festival takes place every July in the city of Barcelona since 1976 and is a multidisci-plinary event that promotes artistic cooperation and international coproductions. In that regard the GREC Festival will participate to Air’s production costs and present the show during the 2016 edition.

La Brêche / National center for circus arts, this theater is based in Cherbourg and is essentially devoted to creation. The com-pany stayed and worked there for 3 weeks in October 2014.

Maison de la Culture de Nevers et de la Nièvre / As a creation and production center, the MCNN helps and supports artists with the diffusion of their shows whether it is in the field of visual arts, dance or theater. already coproducer of Hakanaï in 2013, the MCCN will receive the company at the end of 2014 summer.

L’Hexagone / after 30 years of artistic and culturel activities the Hexagone (national scene for arts and sciences in Meylan) works in developing synergies between arts, sciences and territorial development, specifically by organizing the « atelier arts Sciences et des rencontres-i » (arts and Sciences Biennale). The company will stay and work there in april 2015.

Les Subsistances / As an international laboratory for artistic creation dedicated to new languages in performing arts (dance, théatre, circus, music…), the Subsistances in Lyon is a transdisciplinary venue for work, creation, experimentation and outreach to the public. The venue has received the company during the auditions of the interpreters in June 2013 and for a work period in January 2014.

CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne / As a center for dance development, this institution is directed by Mourad Merzouki since 2009. He is a leading choreographer in the hip hop field and the artistic director of the Käfig company. The CCn is a coproducer of AIR and has received the company in January 2014.

Center for the Arts of Enghien-les-Bains / as the first venue dedicated to digital writings, the Cda of enghien-les-Bains is a production venue concerned with artistic hybridation. It organizes the reknown festival Bains numériques. The company worked there for 2 weeks in July 2014.

Lux / «Scène nationale» of valence in France, this venue develops its multidisciplinary project around images and especially around contemporary digital cultures. It logically participates to AIR as a coproducer.

Le Toboggan / Le Toboggan is a cultural centre located in the heart of Décinces since 1996. Its theatre venue is a multidisci-plinary stage that is accredited by the département and supported by the région rhöne-alpes. it will receive the company two times during 2015 (2 weeks in April and around 10 days at the end of August).

More infoContacts

Artistic Co-DirectionClaire Bardainne 06 64 92 91 06 claire@am-cb.net Adrien Mondot 06 40 19 52 98 adrien@am-cb.net

Administration Marek Vuiton 04 27 78 63 42 administration@am-cb.net

Booking, production Charlotte Auché 06 20 49 02 64 diffusion@am-cb.net

Production AssistantMargaux Letang 04 27 78 63 42 production@am-cb.net

Technical DirectionAlexis Bergeron 06 10 29 42 03 technique@am-cb.net

Head office Adrien M / Claire B 54 quai Saint-vincent F 69001 lyon+33 4 27 78 63 42 www.am-cb.net contact@am-cb.netsiret 477 489 264 00028 ape 9001Z tva fr 31 477 489 264 licence 2-138630 licence 3-104173

The Adrien M / Claire B Company is accredited by DRAC Rhône-Alpes, Rhône-Alpes Region and is supported by the City of Lyon. regarding its tours abroad it is supported by the French institute. The company was associated with Hexagone Scène nationale arts Sciences - Meylan in 2009-2010-2011. They also worked in association with the Manège de Reims Scène Nationale during the theatre seasons of 2005-2006-2007

Ressources

Company overview http://am-cb.net/docs/AMCB-PresentationCompagnie.pdfBio Adrien Mondot http://am-cb.net/docs/AMCB-BioMondot.pdfBio Claire Bardainne http://am-cb.net/docs/AMCB-BioBardainne.pdf

Hakanaï / Solo dance & digital arts / 40 mn / 2013 A choreographic performance for a dancer into a digital, dreamlike and changing environment.Overview http://am-cb.net/docs/aMCB-HKn-Overview.pdf video http://vimeo.com/amcb/hakanai

Cinématique / Show juggling, dance & digital arts / 1h 05 mn / 2010Dance, juggling and digital arts as invitation into imagination of childhood.Overview (fr) http://am-cb.net/docs/AMCB-CMTQ-Dossier.pdf video http://vimeo.com/amcb/cinematique

Un point c’est tout / Conference-show, digital arts / 50 mn / 2011 Didactic explanations, juggling, digital arts.Overview (fr) http://am-cb.net/docs/AMCB-PCT-Dossier.pdf video http://vimeo.com/amcb/pct

XYZT, Abstract Landscapes / Exhibition-itinerary / 10 installations / 2011An interactive and immersive walk into a digital and lush territory, where touching algorithm or feeling the matter of light become possible..Overview http://am-cb.net/docs/aMCB-XYZT-Overview.pdf video http://vimeo.com/amcb/xyzt