The 36th Chamber

Not touching the ground anymore
Change my outlook on the world and me.
Discover me different. Feel transformed.
Finding solutions to an injury.
Sublimate a disability, a handicap.
Abnegation and time stretching.
Discover my weight, my contradictions and a liberating restraint, source of new possibilities.
Go to the end and then come back to earth having discovered gravity and a possible lightness.

"The feet in black loops, Kevin Jean suspends himself at the end of a rope, upside down, with for counterweight a can. From this position, he offers astonishing variations which evoke alternatly the fall, the strangeness of a hampered body which it would be necessary to reconquer and climb. Kevin Jean plays of this body prevented and failed. The obstacle then becomes another way to let go, to observe and to experience again the movement with softness and fluidity."

"This solo offers 30 minutes of sensitive meditation on what animates the deepest part of the body, and allows Kevin Jean to invent himself in aerial sculpture; to dissolve conventional body organization. Starting with the representation we make of it."
Gérard Mayen

"Head down, at ground level, Kevin Jean inhabit The 36th Chamber in a staggering slow motion. [...] He seems to explore his body, its environment, in osmosis with the impressive calm surrounding it [...] The circus, even contemporary, has fun of its condition and its apparatus to flirt with the spectacular. Here nothing like it! A non apparatus! The 36th Chamber, where one surprises his occupant in his intimacy, does not try to impress the audience."
Thomas Hahn

Credits

Conception & performace | Kevin Jean
Artistic collaboration | Nina Santes
Light design| Séverine Rième
Length | 30 minutes
Production | La Fronde
Coproduction | Fondation Royaumont
Thanks to | Ménagerie de verre dans le cadre des Studiolabs, Micadanses dans le cadre des résidences mensuelles, L’échangeur-Cdc Picardie, Mairie de Paris / Aide Paris Jeunes Talents.

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Tour

4.07.2015
Parc des Lilas, Vitry-sur-Seine, Fr
27.06.2015
Nuits bleues #3, L'usine, Tournefeuille / Toulouse, Fr
26&27.03.2015
Festival 360°, La Passerelle, Saint-Brieuc, Fr
20&21.11.2014
Festival Materiais Diversos, Minde, Portugal
13-17.08.2014
Festival Sziget, Budapest,Hongrie
5&6.07.2014
Festival Rayon Frais, Tours, Fr
29.06.2014
Le Gymnase CDC, Roubaix, Fr
28.06.2014
Festival de l’Entorse, Lille, Fr
14.06.2014
Festival Latitudes Contemporaines, Lille, Fr
28.01.2014
Les Rencontres du court 30”30’, Le Cuvier – CDC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, Fr
21.01.2014
Festival International de Danse de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
27.11.2013
Festival Total Danse, Saint André, La Réunion, Fr
22&23.11.2013
Festival Total Danse, TEAT Champ Fleury, Saint Denis, La Réunion, Fr
1.06.2013
Festival des Fabriques, Parc Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ermenonville, Fr
11&12.10.2012
Festival CCC, L'échangeur-CDC Hauts-de-France, Chateau-Thierry, FR
7.10.2012
Théâtre de la cité internationale, festival d’automne, Paris, FR
15&16.09.2012
Festival Entre cours et jardin, Trois Fontaines L’abbaye, FR
4&5.09.2012
Festival Entre cours et jardin, Dijon, FR
12&13.05.2012
Festival WAOUH, Manège de Reims, Reims, FR
10.04.2012
Le Safran, Amiens, FR
17&18.09.2011
Festival Plastique Danse Flore, Versailles, FR
9.09.2011
Première : Saison musicale de l’Abbaye de Royaumont, Royaumont, FR
22.04.2011
Work in progress, Micadanses, Paris, FR
19.11.2010
Work in progress, Fondation Hermès, Manufactures de Sèvres, Sèvres, FR
6.03.2010
Work in progress, Fenêtre sur cours, Abbaye Royaumont, Royaumont, FR

The 36th Chamber

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