La Valse

Thierry De Mey & 13' — 2011

Starting with Maurice Ravel’s choreographic poem for orchestra, Thomas Hauert has produced an abstract composition in which intercerebrality, the mental space between the performers is experienced as a flock of birds unleashing the complexity of its figures, with no conductor and with no pre-established plan. The harmonies, the melodies, the counterpoints are translated, amplified or physically deflected by the dancers. The rhythms travel from body to body to form captivating polyphonies of movement, a dynamic to which Thierry De Mey presented a response in film: here he sets up the whirling rhetoric of acrobatics.

Belgium

Production: Eroïca Productions
Co-production: CBA, Charleroi Danse asbl, Cie Zoo, FWB
With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Réalisation
Thierry De Mey
Scenario
Thierry De Mey
DOP
Philippe Guilbert, Aliocha Van der Avoort
Image editor
Boris Van der Avoort, Isabelle Boyer
Music
Maurice Ravel
With
Thomas Hauert, Compagnie Zoo (choregraphy)
Image Format
Film
Sound Format
Stereo
BW/Colour
Color
Languages OV
FR
Available subtitles
EN
Festivals

2019:
Das Tanzfest, Switzerland, 05/19
Fête de la danse, Switzerland, 05/19

2017:
BeethovenFest, Germany, 09/17

2016:
Tanz Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, 11/16

2014:
TanzPlan Ost, Switzerland, 08/14

2013:
Tanzfilmfestival Luzern, Switzerland, 03/13
Theather aan het Vrijhof, The Netherlands, 03/13

2012:
Festival On Marche, Marocco, 03/12
Festival Whynot, The Netherlands, 03/12
Armunia Festival, Italy, 06/12
Norsk Festival for Dans og Film, Norway, 08/12
L’Espal, Festival Autre Regard, France, 09/12
eXplore dance festival, Romania, 10/12

2011:
IDN Festival, Spain, 01/11
Festival Les Composites, France, 04/11
Festival June Events, France, 06/11
Moving in November, Finland, 10/11
Videonale Festival, Germany, 11/11
Festival de danse de Cannes, France, 11/11
Cinedans, The Netherlands, 12/11

2010:
Rencontres numériques, Belgium, 11/10
BPS22, Belgium, 12/10

Other films from Thierry De Mey

Floréal

Thierry De Mey & 15' — 1985

Love sonnets

Thierry De Mey & 29' — 1994

Prélude à la mer

Thierry De Mey & 20' — 2011
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