MADELEINE FOURNIER

In this solo, Madeleine Fournier explores the pas de bourrée as an archetypal and timeless figure in dance. Starting from this step, she invites us to traverse a variety of dances and let ourselves be carried away by their “grooves.” She also draws upon practices performed by women throughout history, which she allows to emerge from her unconscious: everyday gestures, sexuality, motherhood, work, the force of life… In Labourer, the sound and visual elements engage in a dialogue with the dance, like a double-sided game that shifts us from one sensation to another, from one meaning to another.

Madeleine Fournier trained in dance at the CNR in Paris and the CNDC in Angers. She has performed with numerous choreographers, including Odile Duboc, Emmanuelle Huynh, Loïc Touzé, Rémy Héritier, David Marques, and Yasmine Hugonnet. At the same time, she co-created a series of pieces with Jonas Chéreau. In 2017, she founded her company ODETTA and then created the solo piece Labourer. Her work develops in close connection with experimental music, song, dance, performance, and the natural world, which leads her to collaborate with artists from various disciplines. She enjoys observing how the context—the garden, the theater, the concert hall, the ballroom, the gallery, the cinema—and the codes associated with them interact and cause the performative form to resonate in new ways.

Design and dance Madeleine Fournier / Sound system and music Clément Vercelletto / Lighting creation Pierre Bouglé / General stage management Jeanne Laffargue / Sound management Sébastien Finck / External perspective David Marques / Costume assistance Valentine Solé / Film advice Dominique Willoughby / Graphic designer Catherine Hershey
Production ODETTA / Coproduction Théâtre de Beauvaisis, Vivat – Scène / Agreement Dance and Theater of Armentières, Kunstencentrum Buda Kortrijk, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, La Raffinerie Charleroi Danse, Centre Chorégraphique National de Nantes / Support and residencies PAD Angers, TU Nantes, CND within the framework of the augmented residency / With the support SACD Performing Music Fund and ARCADI Ile-de-France. This project received support from DRAC Ile-de-France in the form of project aid and from the City of Paris in the form of artistic and cultural residency aid.
The association ODETTA is supported by the Ministry of Culture DRAC Ile-de-France in the form of a 2-year convention aid