CREATION JANUARY 2018 DANCE - OLE KHAMCHANLA PICHET KLUNCHUN - Le Tarmac
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CREATION JANUARY 2018 PRESENTATION PACK
DANCE
negotiation
OLE KHAMCHANLA
PICHET KLUNCHUN
Producer Le Tarmac - La scène internationale francophone
Coproducer Compagnie Kham...
GENERIC
NEGOTIATION CREATION JANUARY 2018
Artistic direction l Olé Khamchanla
Choreography & performance l Olé Khamchanla, Pichet Klunchun
Music l Léo Jourdain
Light design Lise Poyol
Stage Design I Lise Poyol, Léo Jourdain
duration: 55 mn
Producer I Le Tarmac - La scène internationale francophone
Coproducers I Compagnie KHAM, La Halle aux Grains - Scène nationale de Blois, Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-
Pape - direction Yuval Pick, Viadanse - Centre chorégraphique national de Belfort, Centre chorégraphique national de La Rochelle/
Poitou-Charentes, Kader Attou/Cie Accrorap, Pôle Sud - CDC de Strasbourg, L'Étincelle - Théâtre de la Ville de Rouen, Théâtre du
Vellein - Villefontaine, New Visions Arts Festival - Hong-Kong
Support I DRAC Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Région Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Ambassade de France de Bangkok
Soutien I Le Pacifique - CDC de Grenoble
Residencies I Centre chorégraphique national de La Rochelle/Poitou-Charentes, Kader Attou/Cie Accrorap, Centre chorégraphique
national de Rillieux-la-Pape - direction Yuval Pick, Viadanse - Centre chorégraphique national de Belfort, Chang Theater - Bangkok
PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE
Reherseals
From 14 to18 June 2016 and from 15 to 30 August 2016 : Chang Theater - Bangkok (Thailand)
From 6 to 10 February 2017 : Centre Chorégraphique National de La Rochelle (France)
From 3 to 14 April 2017 : Le Pacifique - Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Grenoble (France)
Presentation of residency release on Thursday, April 13th, 2017 at 2:30 pm
From 24 April to 5 May 2017 : Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape (France)
Presentation of residency release on Friday 28 April, 2017 at 7:30 pm
From 15 to 20 January 2018 : Viadanse - Centre Chorégraphique National de Belfort (France)
Public presentation on Saturday 20 January 2018 at 7:30 pm
Creation 30 and 31 January 2018 : Pôle Sud - CDC de Strasbourg (France)
From 6 to16 February 2018 : Le Tarmac - La scène internationale francophone - Paris (France) in
partnership with the festival Faits d'Hiver.
13 March 2018 : La Halle aux grains - Scène Nationale de Blois (France)
From 15 to17 March 2018 : L'Étincelle - Théâtre de la Ville de Rouen (France)
20 March 2018 : CDC de Toulouse in partnership with Théâtre Sorano (France)
Ongoing :
Théâtre du Vellein - Villefontaine (France)
New Visions Arts Festival - Hong-Kong (China)
Chang Theater à Bangkok (Thailand)
Festival Fang Mae Khong à Vientiane (Laos)
Network of the French Institutes in South-East Asia...
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FOREWORD
Le Tarmac follows Olé Kamchanla’s work for several years. After coproducing and scheduling three of
his perfomances , Kham in 2007, Focus in 2013, Akalika 7 in 2014, we proposed him a new creation for
2017/2018 season.
Olé Khamchanla answered to our invitation by proposing a duet with a Thai choreographer and dancer,
Pichet Klunchun. He is one of the greatest master of Khon, traditional thai dance, and he crosses inter-
national scenes with his own performances, mixing traditional dances, contemporary dance, theater,
artistic videos… He also wperformed in Jérôme Bel's play, Pichet Klhunchun and myself (2005).
THE PROJECT
What makes tradition?
A necessarily ancestral practice or just any practice, maybe less old, but which irrigates a culture, builds
it and constitutes it.
Is the tradition necessarily a society concern, thus collective, or can it be also individual? Can it belong
to the history of each one, as well as to the History?
Just as Khon makes tradition for Pichet Klunchun, the hip-hop dance resulting from urban cultures, makes
also tradition for Olé Khamchanla.
Both of them seize this tradition wich constitutes them to irrigate their own choreographic writing, to
innovate from the past glories.
Here is the all question : how to negotiate with your origins and traditions to reach a new dance, a to-
day's dance? From the traditional to the contemporary, which corporeal language transforms the original
shape, which movement crosses the codes, which writing reinvents a new history? But also how two
artists negotiate the stakes of a creation by abandoning a few of their own?
Olé Khamchanla and Pichet Klunchun, two universes, two traditions, a common experience of Asia, its
dances and their modernization. They explore, negotiate, question their origins, what today makes their
dance, alone, together, in confrontation and in accord.
Raw material, unstable, repeated, transformed, revisited, the tradition will be only disrupted.
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ARTISTS
Olé Khamchanla I Choreographer and perfomer
Native from Laos, Olé Khamchanla discovered hip-hop dance in 1990 et learned with different dancers
and choreographers like Farid Azzout, Gabin Nuissier and Storm for hip hop dance, Fred Bedongue and
the Master Beja Flore for capoeïra, Abou Lagraa and Monica Cazadei for contemporary dance, and also
opens to Bûto. Step by step, he finds his style, his own way to dance.
With the company A'CORPS (1997 to 2011), he co-signs several shows which leave his creative mark and
allow him to assert his choreographer's status.
In 2006, he travels to Laos and Thailand to learn traditional dances and to create his first solo, Kham.
This return to his roots offers him to deepen and refine his choreographic language. Since, through
international cooperations actions between Asia and Europe, he continues to enrich his artistic research
and cultural projects in favor of the dance development.
In 2011, he creates his own dance company, Kham in reference to his first solo and creates 4 shows:
Focus (French-Sigaporean trio in 2012), Akalika 1 (solo in 2013), Akalika 7 (7 dancers, 2 versions: French
- Singaporean and French in 2014), Fang Lao (4 dancers and 1 live French-Laotian musician in 2015).
Pichet Klunchun I Choreographer and perfomer
Pichet Klunchun is a traditional Thai dancer who adapts traditional works of Thai ballet dance to to
deliver a more contemporary version but always respectful of the foundations of the tradition. Classic
Thai cultural world sees him as one the most audacious artist, who dares to rework and reinterpret thew
traditional Thai choreographic culture to move on to a new and modernized practice. He learned Khon,
a traditional Thai mask dance, from the age of 16, with one of the greatest master, Chaiyot Khummanee.
He obtains his diploma in Thai ballet dance at the university of Chulalongkorn in Bangkok. Thereafter, he
works for theater, as dancer and choreographer, in particular for major events as the opening and closing
ceremonies of he Asian Games in Bangkok in 1998 and for the contemporary dance scene.
He also participates in numerous intercultural events for performing arts, as representative of the classic
Thai dance artists and as choreographer of international renown.
In 2001, the Asian Cultural Council grant him a 7 month’s scholarship in the United States. Since then, he
dances for many international shows of which: Search: Hamlet in 2002 in Denmark, and the Global Soul
in 2003-2004 played in all Europe.
He recently created his won company, Life Work Company, aiming to teach young talents the basics of
the Thai ballet dance. Pitchet is the only artist who develops his art from the traditionam dance Khon and
is also competent to collaborate with other artists on an international level.
In 2005, Jérôme Bel creates a duet for Pichet Klunchun and himself, Pichet Klunchun and myself, which
is played all around the world.
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Valérie Baran, Director
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