Dromos 1 & 2 : two solos constructed over a period of two years, 2006 and 2007. One forms part of the continuity of the other.
The staging of Dromos 1, a pictorial object, concentrates on a closed space, a cocoon in which a being evolves, a consenting – if unconscious – prisoner of its environment. It thus exposes its body to external view without control over its image which, filtered by a vertical membrane, becomes double, since it is also processed digitally by the external screening of a video. The membrane, like a moving palimpsest, thus comprises two visions of the body: the first, sensual one from which the second, abstract one emanates, like two complementary poles which are transcended by the light at intervals.
In Dromos 2, the body is liberated from its cocoon. It departs from its virtual performance by breaking through the cloth to invade the stage. Constructed this time on a horizontal plane, Dromos 2 offers the newly formed being a far more extensive, less protected space, enabling it to become aware of its vulnerability and of being watched.
Solo/Danse – vidéo 2006 / 07
> Technical rider <
| Choreograph | Philippe Combes |
| Interpreter | Delphine Lorenzo |
| Video | Cécile Babiole |
| Lights | Patrick Riou |
| Sound | Pan Sonic |
| Production | Séverine Combes |
| Configuration | One cloth stretched over an independent structure 4m x 3m, Lights, videoprojector |
| Coproduction | Compagnie Cave Canem - CDC Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées - CCN/Ballet Biarritz - Town of Toulouse |
| Support | Fondation BNP Paribas |
| Duration | 30 mn & 30 mn (5mn pause) |
Trio
TRIO is a game.
It is designed as an interactive form between the audience and the dancers of the Cave Canem company. By means of a special process, this project focuses on letting each spectator interpret the information presented to them in their own way.
TRIO is an accumulation of choreographic sequences clearly identified by the dancers, without any link between them, like a television newscast composed of news items with preformatted content and duration. For TRIO, the rhythm in which the sequences of information are interlinked, the primary component of the meaning given to an item information, is left to the interpretation of each spectator, who is invited to zap in situ to the next sequence using a counting method explained to them as they enter the performance area.
Depending on the spaces where the piece is performed, a concertation between the organisers and the company enables the project to be readjusted (number of spectators expected, configuration of the spaces, etc.).
At the end of the performance, there is a meeting with the audience to discuss the construction techniques of the piece, centring on the value of information, whatever it may be.
Trio 2006
There is no technical rider because 'Trio' is a light performance destined to be showed in any place and with any configuration.
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| Choreography | Philippe Combes |
| Interpreters | Blandine Pinon, Benjamin Pagès, Philippe Combes |
| Production | Séverine Combes |
| Stage | Adaptable in any spaces |
| Production | Compagnie Cave Canem, CDC Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées |
| Support | Fondation BNP Paribas |
| Duration | Between 20 and 30 minutes |
X
X, a 2005 quintet, forms part of a thematic cycle which started with the 2003 duet L-Dopa and Magma, a 2004 quintet. For X it was necessary to consider two approaches to an item of information. The first one involves the spectator as the event leading to the information unfolds, thereby enabling him to give his own meaning to that information. The second one holds the spectator at a distance, because it is delivered through the prism of visual preformatting, in a frenzied rhythm of accumulated sequences which can immediately be absorbed.X is composed of two parts, the first in the form of a performance and the second in the form of a frontal presentation.
Quintet 2005
> Technical rider<
| Choreography | Philippe Combes |
| Art Assistant | Nataly Aveillan |
| Music | Pierre Yves Bérenguer |
| Lights | Patrick Riou |
| Interpreters | Blandine Pinon, Laurent Doësy, Sidi Graoui, Philippe Combes, Isabelle Teruel |
| Production | Séverine Combes |
| Production | Compagnie Cave Canem « Danse à Lille » / Roubaix |
| Support | BNP Paribas Foundation |
| Duration | 1h 15 |
Magma
Magma is inscribed within the continuity of the treatment of the themes developed in L-Dopa created in 2003, and followed in X, quintett 2005.
Magma, frontal dance piece, is a mise-en-scène of the de-responsabilization of two beings who are incapable of situating their actions for they are conditioned and forever assisted within the mass.
Quintet 2004
> Technical rider <
| Choreography | Philippe Combes |
| Art Assistant | Nataly Aveillan |
| Music | Pierre Yves Bérenguer |
| Lights | Patrick Riou |
| Interpreters | Blandine Pinon, Laurent Doësy, Sidi Graoui, Philippe Combes, Isabelle Teruel |
| Production | Séverine Combes |
| Stage layout | Frontal stage - 9m x 9m, black floor, lights |
| Production | Compagnie Cave Canem CCN de Nancy / Ballet de Lorraine CCN de Grenoble / Jean - Claude Gallotta CCAM / Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy Association Beaumarchais / SACD |
| Support | Fondation BNP Paribas TNT/Théâtre National Toulouse CDC/Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées |
| Duration | 1 hour |
L-Dopa
L-Dopa, duo 2005, is beginning a thematic cycle which following with Magma, a 2004 quintet, and X a 2005 quintet.
L-Dopa offers four variations on the theme of Being or Appearing. In a fictitious world of pre-established codes and systems, what are the forces, what are the deviations allowing each of us to express our own, personal truth?
Duo 2003
> Technical rider <
| Choreography | Philippe Combes |
| Interpreters | Aurélie Lobin and Stéphane Loras |
| Music | Pierre Yves Bérenguer |
| Lights | Patrick Riou |
| Production | Séverine Combes |
| Stage layout | Frontal stage - 9m x 9m, black floor, lights |
| Production | Compagnie Cave Canem DRAC (Direction of Cultural Affairs in Midi-Pyrénées) Conseil Régional Midi-Pyrénées Ballet Biarritz/CCN Thierry Malandain (accueil studio 2003) Ballet Biarritz/CCN Thierry Malandain (National Choreographic Center) |
| Support | CDC/Midi-Pyrénées Center for Choreographic Development BNP Paribas Foundation |
| Duration | 35 mn |
Asterios
Tow independent and complementary works produced at two different times are well-matched here, offering the spectacle of two visions of survival of a being.
1st part: Minotaur-ex, a short film
This short film is the fruit of collaboration between Philippe Combes and director Bruno Aveillan. It is inspired by the Greek myth of the Minotaur, and performed by three dancers, three faces of a monster who, forlorn in his condition, tries to find a way out through a metamorphosis of his being, illustrated by a dream-like film script.
2nd part: solo
Asterios IS the dying monster. Played by a woman, paradoxical in her femininity contrary to the masculine monster, but similar for all that, because she conveys the fertility symbolized by the bull, the Minotaur's father. On a litter of powdery earth, she delivers a brutal and obstinate dance, head lowered, with furious footwork, doing battle with herself, falling, getting up and falling again until she drops from exhaustion.
Movie and Solo 2002
> Technical rider <
| Choreography | Philippe Combes |
| Movie’s Artistic Director | Bruno Aveillan |
| Pictures | Philippe LESOURD |
| Video editing | Frédérique OLSZAK |
| Music | Hervé Taminiaux |
| Lights (solo) | Jean-Louis Carausse |
| Danseurs (film) | Nataly Aveillan, Nadine Comminges, Philippe Combes |
| Danseurs (solo) | Blandine Pinon |
| Régie générale | Séverine Combes |
| Configuration | 1 screen, 1 video projector, Square of 8m x 8m, white floor, lights |
| Coproduction | Compagnie Cave Canem DRAC (Direction of Cultural Affairs in Midi-Pyrénées) City of Toulouse Athanor/Scène Nationale d’Albi QUAD Production/Paris, Pin-Up, Wizz (movie) |
| Support | Fondation BNP Paribas |
| Duration | 30 mn |
Pour Mai
Pour Mai is a trio for a female dancer, a male dancer and a narrator. It is built around a four-fold circular journey, in which each person finds a place as they experience various encounters.
This trio, an allegory of a knot that unravels as the twists and turns of the performance unfold, is the original interpretation without any musical accompaniment. It could be an opportunity to bring together dance company Cave Canem and a guest musical group to accompany the performance live, or to invent with the company a modified version, depending on how their various sensibilities blend. The performance is based on a text, an excerpt from "Mentir" by Eugène SAVITZKAYA, and spoken by the narrator.
Trio 2002
There is no technical rider because 'Pour mai' is a light performance destined to be showed in any place and with any configuration.
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| Choreography | Philippe Combes |
| Interprters | Philippe Combes, Blandine Pinon |
| Narrator | Hervé Taminiaux |
| Production | Séverine Combes |
| Stage | Circular, adaptable in any spaces |
| Production | Compagnie Cave Canem |
| Support | Fondation BNP Paribas |
| Duration | 13 mn |