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The Ephemeral life of an Octopus
Léa Tirabasso
PRESENTATION and FOOTAGES…..2
TOUR…..2
ARTISTIC STATEMENT…..3
TEAM…..4-5
PRESS…..6
TOURING CONDITIONS and CONTACT…..7
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The Ephemeral life of an octopus Léa TirabassoAerowaves Twenty20 Artist
« To ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus »
In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
SUPPORT
TROIS C-L, Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois (LU)
Kinnneksbond, Mamer (LU) – Co-production
KLAP Maison pour la danse, Marseille (FR) – Co-production
The Place, London; Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds; DanceXchange,
Birmingham (UK) – Commission
Dance City, Newcastle; South East Dance, Brighton; Arts Council England; the Wellcome
Collection (UK) ; Fondation Indépendance, Ministère de la Culture (LU) – Support
FOOTAGE OF THE PIECE
Full piece https://vimeo.com/327173719/ea037ea7a2
Teaser 1 https://vimeo.com/313807624
Teaser 2 https://vimeo.com/295008895
Behind the scene https://vimeo.com/316383521
FUTURE DATES
24-26th April 2020 - Spring Forward Aerowaves, Croatian Cultural Centre, Rijeka (CR) postponed
13th June 2020 - National Dance Center of Bucharest (RO) postponed
15th November 2020 - Lublin International Dance Festival (PL)
The Place London 2020/2021
PAST TOUR
Friday 8th February 2019 - Kinneksbond, Mamer (LU)
Thursday 28th February 2019 - DanceXchange, Birmingham (UK)
Saturday 2nd March 2019 - The Place, Londres (UK)
Saturday 9th March 2019 - Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds (UK)
Saturday 16th March 2019 - KLAP Maison pour la Danse, Marseille (FR)
Friday 29th November 2019 - Concours PODIUM, La Rampe, Echirolles (FR)
Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th January 2020 - Kinneksbond Hors-les-murs — Banannefabrik (LU)
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The Ephemeral life of an octopus Léa TirabassoARTISTIC STATEMENT
"There is the ancient, religious idea that man is the unhappy combination of beast and god: if only
we were divine, we would be liberated, immortal spirit; if only we were beast, we could be content
in our instinctive ignorance." The Human and the octopus by Thomas Stern.
The Ephemeral Life of an Octopus is absurd and grotesque, playful and liberating. It questions
the strangeness of having a body: healthy and vigorous, suffering and damaged, punctured and
probed, wild and animalistic.
Based on the choreographer's personal experience of ovarian cancer, the piece is inspired by
studies of the evolution of cancer cells and the lived experience of illness. At once scientific,
philosophical and visceral, the piece looks at the dysfunction, chaos and vibrant life force of the
body from within and without.
More broadly, the piece explores the curse it might be to have a consciousness. It is an attempt
to look at instinctive and primal states, dysfunctional behaviors and chaotic outcomes.
There are 3 approaches to the piece, its research and its making:
* Scientific: how does a healthy cells become cancerous. It journeys to becoming abnormal, out
of control and hectic. Its lost ability to « commit suicide » and thus, its terrible and ironical
intense life energy.
* Philosophical: wouldn’t we be happier without a conscious? Just like the beast and the
animals?
* Phenomenological: the experience of the patient, the sensation of an objectified body,
observed, pierced, cut open etc. and the sensation of dislocation between the mind and the
body.
The choreographer collaborated with Surgeons, Oncologists, Geneticians and Philosophers.
Open Discussion were organised by Léa Tirabasso at the Wellcome Collection in London :
- The Five types of Gynaecological Cancers (with Gyneco-Oconlogist Adeola Olaitan)
- The Representation of Cancer in the Arts (with Artist Brian Lobel)
- The Human and the Octopus: Pain, Illness and the Mind (with Philosopher Thomas Stern)
- Oncology and Dance: how can oncology inspire a choreography? (with Gyneco-Oconlogist
Adeola Olaitan)
- Arts and Science: same process?
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The Ephemeral life of an octopus Léa TirabassoTEAM
Léa Tirabasso, choreographer – Léa is a dancer and a choreographer. She is interested
in the collision between the graceful and the dissonant, the comic and the tragic, the grotesque
and the transcendent. Cultural constructions, stifled pulses and the human condition at its most
bizarre are at the centre of her work.
Previous works include : XX-a further study, Simones, In Wonderland: See my friends. Her
critically acclaimed piece love me tender opened in 2015 at The Place (UK) and toured in
Luxembourg (Banannefabrik, Emergences Volume 1, CAPE de Ettelbrück), in the UK
(TripSpace), in Germany (Staatstheater Mainz, official programme of the Tanzmesse 2016
Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf), in Spain (Figueres, AGITART). Her dance videos Sacre and N87HP
Priory Road have been internationally screened.
Her latest piece TOYS was co-produced by TROIS C-L Luxembourg, supported by Mierscher
Kulturhaus, start-up – Œuvre de Secours Grande Duchesse Charlotte, Fondation Indépendance
and FOCUNA in Luxembourg. It was commissioned by The Place (UK), supported by Dance-City
Newcastle, Arts Council England, TripSpace London (UK) ; Le Pacifique – CDC Grenoble (FR) ;
Le Grand Studio de Bruxelles (BE) and JOJO – Oulu Dance Centre (FI).
TOYS was performed at Banannefabrik (LU), The Place (UK) and during SIDFestival Séoul (SK).
As a dancer, Léa worked with Johannes Wieland, Stephanie Thiersch, Michael Langeneckert
(DE) ; Chris Haring/Liquid Loft (AU) ; José Vidal & Company (UK/CHI), James Finnemore, Clod
Ensemble, Seke Chimutwengwende, Seven Sisters Group and Peter Groom (UK) ; as well as for
Bernard Baumgarten and Jean-Guillaume Weis (LU).
She holds a BA in History of Arts and Modern Literature, she trained at London Contemporary
Dance School.
In 2016, she received the prestigious Price « Arts et Lettres » from the Grand Ducal Institute for
her work as a dancer and as a choreographer.
She is a guest speaker for « IBS Women’s Cancer Module » at University College London and
has been invited to talk about her work with the Masters students at London Contemporary
Dance School. She will choreograph for EDGE the Post Graduate Company of London
Contemporary Dance School in 2020, and will be working with Patrick Eakin Young on a piece
commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2021.
Catarina Barbosa, dancer – Catarina Barbosa trained at the National Conservatoire of
Portugal in Lisbon and at Ballet Junior in Geneva.
In Geneva, she danced with Gustavo Ramirez Sansano (ES), Stjin Celis (BE), Thierry Malandain
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The Ephemeral life of an octopus Léa Tirabasso(FR), Ken Ossola (CH), Guilherme Botelho (BR), Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon (FR),
Gilles Jobin (CH), Idan Sharabi (IL), Lucinda Childs (US). She then joins Compagnie Gilles
Jobin (CH) and creates with them Quantum. In 2015, she joins Associação Nós da Dança
Company in Portugal. Based un Luxembourg since 2016, she collaborates with choreographers:
Bernard Baumgarten (LU), Saeed Hani (SY) and Sarah Baltzinger (FR). With Baptiste Hilbert
(BE), she co-creates Company As We Are (AWA a.s.b.l.).
Rosie Terry Toogood, dancer – Rosie trained at LIPA Liverpool, and with Kibbutz
Company in Israel. She worked with Jérôme Bel, Ivan Blackstock, Exzeb, Joss Arnott, Nina Kov
and Rosie Whitney-Fish (UK). She currently works with the choreographic collectives that she co-
directs Bufo Makmal and Sobjects (CH). She danced in the pieces See my Friends: Rosie in
Wonderland, love me tender and TOYS by Léa Tirabasso.
Joachim Maudet, dancer – Joachim Maudet trained at Conservatoire National Supérieur
de Paris. As a dancer, he works with Christian Ubl (CUBe), Arthur Perole (Cie F), Katell Harteau
and Leonard Rainis (Le Pôle), Samuel Faccioli and Bérengère Fournier (La Vouivre), Tatiana
Julien (Cie Interscribo). Joachim creates the company Les Vagues in 2017 and develops his own
works since.
Alistair Goldsmith, dancer – Alistair Goldsmith trained at London Contemporary Dance
School and at State University of New York, Purchase College. He worked as an apprentice for
National Dance Wales Company where he danced works by Angelin Preljocaj, Stephen
Shropshire and Eleesha Drennan. Since, he collaborated with Gary Clarke for COAL and
Wasteland, with Punchdrunk for The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, with Secret Cinema
(Back to The Future), with Emma Martin Dance / United Fall (Dancehall). He danced in various
films, including 'The Mummy’ by Alex Kurtzmans and 'Mary Queen of Scots’ by Josie Rourke. He
danced in the piece TOYS by Léa Tirabasso.
Martin Durov, composer - Martin is a dancer and a composer. He was a full time
member of the Tanztheater Kassel (DE) under the direction of Johannes Wieland. He also worked
with Wim Vigor in New York. Martin also composed the music for the piece TOYS by Léa
Tirabasso.
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The Ephemeral life of an octopus Léa TirabassoPRESS
The Ephemeral life of an octopus (2019)
That dance, which explains the unspeakable, (..), the hope, the passion of a fighting
body, which makes tears run down, because that fucking disease seems human in its
poetic dash, like Boris Vian's Nenuphar, and gives a certain pride to have hosted it in its
body Erin Penn, Land (LU)
An emotional roller-coaster. Christine Mandy, Journal (LU)
At once original in its statement, remarkable in its choreographic language and extremely
well performed. Marie-Laure Rolland, La Glaneuse (LU)
Tirabasso splits individual movement apart to reveal a shaky, vulnerable core of
humanity. Ka Bradley, Springback Magazine (UK)
There is an undercurrent of wit in Tirabasso’s choreography, in her choice of music
(including an original composition by Martin Durov), in the colour and light of the
production and in the relentless play of healthy bodies in a compulsive setting of dis-ease
that negotiates a path between spirit and flesh, between intellect and play that taken as a
whole borders on an unequivocal celebration of life.
Nicholas Minns, Writing about Dance (UK)
On the floor, cables seem to draw the map of a world with intertwined frontiers. Between
the animal world and the human one, between science and consciousness, between
body and soul. Ludovic Thomas, Journal Zibeline (FR)
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The Ephemeral life of an octopus Léa TirabassoTOURING CONDITIONS
7 People touring (4 Dancers, 1 Choreographer, 1 Technician, 1 Tour booker/manager)
Performance fee X 1 show: 5000 Euros
Performance fee X 2 show: 8000 Euros
Performance fee X 3 shows: 11 000 Euros
The hosting venue ensure to cover travel, accommodations and meals/per diem for the team.
Technical informations - Attached document to this email
CONTACTS
Choreographer
Lea Tirabasso
0044 (0)792 819 6876
leatirabasso@gmail.com
www.leatirabasso.com
Facebook Léa Tirabasso - Instagram @leatirabasso
Touring
Victor Leclère, La Magnanerie
MAG.I.C MAGnanerie International Cooperation
0033 (0)1 43 36 37 12
victor@magnanerie-spectacle.com
www.magnanerie-spectacle.com
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