2009 Lab Artists

Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon / Projet In Situ

Martin Chaput studied at Les Ateliers de Danse Moderne de Montréal before moving to France in 1987 where he pursued his training with members of the companies of Dominique Bagouet, Viviane Serry, Bernard Glandier, Sylvie Girot as well as with Mathilde Monnier, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Simone Fortie and Didier Silhol. As an interpreter, between dance and performance art, he has collaborated most notably with Jean-Pierre Perreault, Philippe Genty, Claire Jenny, Thierry and Marion Bae, Luc Perrot and Rémi Uchéda.

Martial Chazallon has conducted research in South Africa into the mechanisms of identity construction with art, around the work of the Ndebele painters, with whom he created, in 2000, the performance “Wake Up!” This was the starting point for a choreographic research that he has since developed with, among others, Mr. Chaput, Daniel Soulières, Panaibra Gabriel and the visual artists Maciej Fiszer, Maryvonne Arnaud and Berry Bickle.

Mr. Chaput and Mr. Chazallon have collaborated since the creation of “Du Haut” in 2000, followed by “Manège” (2001) and “Wake Up! You need to sweep the courtyard!” (2001). Then with the 4 M’s project, a research into urban and intimate corporalities, he co-directed in Mexico “Miradas cruzadas” (2002), in Montreal “Appartement témoin” (2005) and in Maputo “Taxidermie” (2006). This last piece was re-staged at the Merlan, National Theatre of Marseille and at the National Choreographic Centre in Rillieux-la-Pape, giving rise to “Taxidermie #2” (2007). “Tu vois ce que je veux dire ?,” a choreographic blindfolded journey, was created in Marseille in 2005 and re-created for the Lyon Dance Biennial in 2008.

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