© Ursula Kaufmann

6:10 pm (10 min)

With Solène Wachter
10000 gestes is a choreographic forest in which no movement is ever repeated. 10,000 gestures that will only be visible once – only to disappear as soon as they are traced, like an ode to the impermanence of the art of dance. Presented in November 2018 at the Théâtre d’Orléans, 10000 gestures returns solo.

Boris Charmatz is a dancer-choreographer. Since 1996, he has signed a series of landmark pieces. Simultaneously, he has continued his activities as an interpreter, improviser and author, notably with “Je suis une école”, a book that recounts the experience of BOCAL, his ephemeral nomadic school. Associate artist at the 2011 Avignon Festival, invited to the MoMA in 2013 and the Tate Modern in 2012, 2015 and 2019, Boris Charmatz directed the Musée de la danse, Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne from 2009 to 2018. In 2019, he launched Terrain, located in the Hauts-de-France region.

Solène Wachter began classical dance at the Toulouse Conservatory, then at the Paris Conservatory, where she graduated in 2016. She created the company Stimulus. With their first creation, “Divers-gens”, they performed at MC2 in Orléans, Regard du Cygne in Paris, Théâtre Les Salorges in Noirmoutier, and Théâtre de Papeete in Tahiti. She continued her studies at PARTS in Brussels. She presented her solo “De face” for the first time in 2017. She participated in the premieres of “10000 gestes” and “infini” by Boris Charmatz, with whom she also collaborates on pieces for children, as well as performing in “danse de n

(Teaser of the performance 10000 gestes)