Mylene Benoit is a french visual artist and choreographer, trained at the University of Westminster in London (BA in Contemporary media practice), and at the University of Paris 8 (Master in Hyperdocuments multimedia), then at Fresnoy,
National Studio of Contemporary Arts of Tourcoing. She founded the dance company Contour Progressif in 2004.
Her choreographic works explore the way technology and media affect the reality of the human body.
Her works are currently on tour in France, Germany, Belgium and Brazil.
She is associated to the theater Vivat (Armentières) for 3 years from september 2011.
ICI - creation 2010 Mylène Benoit + Olivier Normand >>>
5, September 2010 : Fondation Royaumont (95)
2, february 2011 - Théâtre Espaces Pluriels, Pau (64)
15, february 2011 - Festival ArtDanThé / Hors-Saison d'ARCADI au Théâtre de Vanves (92)
8, march 2011 - Hippodrome, scène nationale de Douai (59)
23, march 2011 - PhéniX scène nationale de Valenciennes (59)
22 + 23, april 2011 - Buda Kunstencentrum, Festival FRESH, Courtrai (Belgique)
5 + 6 of may 2011 - Vivat d'Armentières (59)
21st of may 2011 - Condition Publique, Roubaix (59)
The project ICI is located where choreography and video intersect, bringing together three entangled topics for consideration : the body, its image and identity. The stage set-up relies on the principle of time-delay. It is based on a combination of two games : Cadavre Exquis and Chinese Whispers. It works by simultaneous accumulation and distortion through the copying of movement. |
La Chair du monde - 2009 >>>
Effet Papillon - 2007 >>>
Effet Papillon (Butterfly Effect) draws on the conventions of video games to examine how the body is represented in the world of virtual reality. There dance is made more from pixels than from flesh : Effet Papillon puts this image of the body to the test. It is an idealised image, mediatised and fabricated, evolving without risk or responsibility in a universe which has become completely dependable, even when it is at its most dangerous……
Performance created for the 20th anniversary of the science museum in Paris, La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
Conversations sur le temps (Talking about Time) created in 2006, is a performance commissioned by the Cite des Sciences et de l’industrie to conclude the international symposium on “Matter, life, the human being, tomorrow’s horizons, today’s questions” which was organised to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the museum. It centred around speeches given by the philosopher Michel Serres, the paleo-anthropologist Pascal Picq, the astrophysicist Marc Lachieze-Rey, and the biologist Jean-Claude Ameisen. This production conceived by Mylène Benoit, assisted of Annie Leuridan, consists of a stage-set installation created by Xavier Boyaud, three original videos and a musical composition by Sylvain Millot.
Diffusion : Magda Kachouche contour.progressif at gmail.com |
