20 dancers for the XX century and even more

Concept Boris Charmatz

Start Presale: 28.02.2025, 10:00
With dancers from Tanztheater Wuppertal and guests
Opernhaus Wuppertal, Kurt-Drees-Straße 4, 42283 Wuppertal

How to dance in a library? In a lobby? How to dance in a public space, a reading room, a walkway, without losing oneself in it? How to make the dancing body visible among other bodies in transit? The Dancing Museum has chosen to foster teaching and dissemination by way of a panorama of twentieth-century dance. Performers with diverse backgrounds and from different generations take over the hallways, rooms, and stairways of institutions of learning, appropriating and exhibiting some of the landmark solos of the twentieth century. As they stroll around, the audience may come across these strange visitors in motion dispersed around the building: they might discover a Merce Cunningham solo or a dance by Isadora Duncan, allowing everyone to build, each in his own way, a living, non-linear archive of dance in which they may forget themselves, pause, wander from echo to echo, from gesture to gesture…

In 2020, for the purposes of the Théâtre du Châtelet edition, Boris Charmatz seeks to go beyond the limits of the 20th century in order to burst in upon our present, and to add a chapter to this history in the making: 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more...

The Wuppertal edition of 20 Dancers for the XX Century and even more is a contribution to the preparatory phase of the Pina Bausch Centre and is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Wuppertal.

Deputy Director: Hélène Joly
Stage Management: Mathieu Morel, Renaud L’Espagnol, Sacha D’Enfert
Director of productions: Lucas Chardon, Martina Hochmuth
Production commissioner: Jessica Crasnier, Briac Geffrault

Interpretation: Für jede neue Version dieses Projekts wird eine Gruppe von Tänzerinnen und Tänzern zusammengestellt. Die Räumlichkeiten und eine Auswahl von Tanzfilmen oder Archivmaterialien können ebenfalls zur Verfügung gestellt werden.

Production / distribution: Terrain
Eine Produktion des Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne (2012)

Participation in the project since 2012
Germaine Acogny, Mithkal Alzghair, Anémone Arnaud, Pascal Aubin, Laura Bachman, Caroline Bance, Fabian Barba, Eleanor Bauer, Nadia Beugré, Nuno Bizarro, Boglárka Börcsök, Marie-Solène Boulet, Magali Caillet-Gajan, Varinia Canto Vila, Alessio Carbone, Alexandra Cardinale, Florian Caron, François Chaignaud, Dimitri Chamblas, Boris Charmatz, Jean-Baptiste Chavignier, Ruth Childs, Julia Cogan, Pat Catterson, Ashley Chen, Julia Cogan, Julie Cunningham, Sonia Darbois, Raphaëlle Delaunay, Sara De Roo, Noëmie Djiniadhis, Matthieu Doze, Olga Dukhovnaya, Colin Dunne, Jacquelyn Elder, Tim Etchells, Eduardo Ricardo Fernandes aka Dominant Nemak, João Fiadeiro, Jim Fletcher, Antonia Franceschi, Bryana Fritz, Grégory Gaillard, Letizia Galloni, Nestor Garcia Diaz, Marion Gautier de Charnacé, François Gazio, Yves-Noël Genod, Brennan Gerard, Juliette Gernez, Marie Goudot, Olivia Grandville, Peggy Grelat-Dupont, Sylvain Groud, Dmitry Gutov, Christophe Haleb, Trajal Harrell, , Reinhild Hoffmann, Emmanuelle Huynh, Mette Ingvartsen, Alain Irie aka Alaingo, Mai Ishiwata, Janez Janša, Dai Jian, Burr Johnson, Tatiana Julien, Lénio Kaklea, Myriam Kamionka, Latifa Laâbissi, Laurence Laffon, La Ribot, I-Fang Lin, Matej Keižar, Benoît Lachambre, Samuel Lefeuvre, Johanna Elisa Lemke, Catherine Legrand, , I-Fang Lin, Kiko Lòpez Juan, Mark Lorimer, Filipe Lourenço, Morgan Lugo, Mackenzy, Allister Madin, Ioannis Mandafounis, Vera Mantero, Jérôme Marin, Julie Martel, Fabrice Mazliah, Mathilde Monnier, Bernardo Montet, Julien Monty, Richard Move, Mani A. Mungai, Alex Mugler, Samuel Murez, Ko Murobushi, Lasseindra Ninja, Banu Ogan, Caroline Osmont, Chrysa Parkinson, Sofia Parcen, Benjamin Pech, Olga Pericet, Katia Petrowick, Sonja Pregrad, Leiomy Prodigy, Annabelle Pulcini, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Fabrice Ramalingom, Pierre Rétif, Christopher Roman, Stéphanie Romberg, Djino Alolo Sabin, Yann Saïz, Marlène Saldana, Sònia Sánchez, Salia Sanou, Manon Santkin, Cristina Saso, Elisabeth Schwartz, Frédéric Seguette, Karine Seneca, Shelley Senter, Valda Setterfield, Julie Shanahan, Yasutake Shimaji, Big Shush, Thomas Simon, Gus Solomons, John Sorensen-Jolink, Meg Stuart, Asha Thomas, Mark Tompkins, Claudia Triozzi, Roberte Tual (dessen Tanz von Brigitte Chataignier weitergegeben wurde), Le Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Rennes (mit den Lehrern Sylvain Richard, Florence Tissier und den Schülern Arthur Debroise, Lucie Delachaume, Romane Morvan-Lemaire, Fanny Paris, Ariane Tissier), Francesco Vantaggio, Javier Vaquero Ollero, Hugo Vigliotti, Sven Walser, Julian Weber, Adam Weinert, Thomas Wodianka