AUGURI
Choreography: Olivier Dubois
Creative assistant: Cyril Accorsi
Music François: Caffenne
assisted by Stéphane Riou
Lights: Patrick Riou
Scenography and sets: Olivier Dubois
Costumes: Christel Zingiro
With
Youness Aboulakoul, Benjamin Bertrand, Camerone Bida, Mathieu Calmelet, Jacquelyn Elder, Virginie Garcia, Karine Girard, Inés Hernández, Steven Hervouet, Aimée Lagrange, Mélodie Lasselin, Sébastien Ledig, David Le Thaï, Clémentine Maubon, Aurélie Mouilhade, Luciano Nuzzolese, Loren Palmer, Sébastien Perrault, Rémi Richaud, Antonin Rioche, Sandra Savin, Justine Tourillon.
With Auguri, the choreographer and director of the CCN Ballet du Nord offers a large and powerful piece for around twenty dancers. Confronting the unleashed elements, Olivier Dubois puts the “protean pack” of omens into dance.
Olivier Dubois took his time to “meet” dance: it was only at the age of twenty-three that he entered the dance, first performing, then choreographing. He talks about this “wild desire” he had then to dance. With Angelin Preljocaj or Jan Fabre, for example.
In 1999, he signed Under Cover, his first solo, but it was with Pour tout l’or du monde that he was spotted at the Avignon Festival. Since then, Olivier Dubois has been one of the most sought-after French artists. In 2012, Tragédie marked an accomplishment: a long piece for around twenty dancers which produced an electric shock on the public and has not stopped touring. Director since 2014 of the CCN Ballet du Nord, Olivier
Dubois finally unveils Auguri, his anticipated new piece. The very title refers to the omens, “this protean pack, this complex entity with secret and ancestral rules”. On set, the choreographer imagines a ballet where “everything will be races: running towards, reaching as quickly as possible, as soon as possible; to launch our bodies, to destin them but also to run to get away, to escape, to flee this destiny.” Running bodies in search of this absolute... happiness. “They are these always unpredictable and secret elements which, through their power, shake up and destroy. »
Auguri is a fresco which borrows from the divine and the pagan, a breathless dance, an “avalanche, lightning, thunder, tidal wave” which seizes the bodies. Carried by the musical creation of François Caffenne and the lighting of Patrick Riou, Auguri promises to be a symphony in movement.