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Ready to get goosebumps? Le festival Waterproof takes the plunge once again this year and launches its sixth edition devoted entirely to the danse. From January 17 to February 1, 2025performances, workshops, dancefloors, dance marathon, expos or even professional meetings will punctuate the Breton capital. In total, a hundred meetings will be given. Among them, some will be free.

news Rennes has put together a fine selection.

[SLO] with the Lucane Company

Pour inaugurate the launch of the festivalSaturday January 18, 2025 at 11 a.m., the Compagnie Lucane will launch into un slow right within Rennes station. Slowfor dancing in pairs obviously, but slow also, for a dance where we take the time to to slow down.

For this special day, the public is invited to dance. But Compagnie Lucane also organizes workshops where it will be possible to create, with them, a multiplied version of their duet:

• Wednesday January 8 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Triangle Library. Registration is done by email or by telephone on 02 23 62 26 95;
• Thursday January 9 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.at the Triangle. Registration is done by email or by telephone on 02 99 22 27 27;
• Saturday January 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Lillico, Guy Ropartz room. Registration is done online;
• Saturday January 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Pôle Sud, Chartres-de-Bretagne. Registration is done by email or by telephone on 02 99 77 13 20.

Junior Sound Corps

An artistic practice workshop is offered to the public mixing dance and care. Fabien Almakiewicz will offer a session combining massage and composition of landscapes sound, olfactory et visuals.

You will have to go to Lillico, Guy Ropartz room in Rennes, Sunday January 19 from 5:30 p.m.

The show (paid) by Massimo Fusco, Junior Sound Bodies – Magnetic Bodieswill be available on Sunday January 19, Tuesday January 21 and Wednesday January 22 at Lillico, Guy Ropartz room in Rennes (more information here). The public is invited, for this show, to settle on an island of gale cushions bathed in a layer of sound.

Blind dreams

In another register, Thierry Micouin, choreographer and performer, will perform on stage with a dance called Blind dreams.

At the age of 27, I lost the use of my left eye and part of my right eye following an accident. Quickly, I noticed that very luminous, colorful and sparkling geometric shapes, circles, hexagons, kaleidoscopes, suddenly appeared and disappeared in front of me. These images that came from outside were beyond any control.

A dance in alone from an experience bodily et bright, inspired by Charles Bonnet syndromemade of specific visual hallucinations.

See you Tuesday, January 21 at 2 p.m. at the Garage – CCNRB. Upon registration.

Notwithstanding

Another solo, that of Jean-Baptiste André, who invites acrobatic forms on stage and in particular hand balancing. A specialty of this artist Circassian.

In a raw and unadorned presence, the body apprehends its environment in a here and now. He is able to change direction without affecting his dexterity in crossing his terrain. It is a wish for a writing that allows a body to be seen rather than shown.

To see this performance, meet Tuesday January 21 at 3:30 p.m. at the Théâtre de la Parcheminerie. Upon registration.

Dance traces

” Through a circulation, a dialogue et and intermingling, between video projections, dancing moments, moments of musique and of parole, the public is invited to follow dance stories and dance brokers that Marie Houdin met,” explains the Waterproof festival.

A dance at the crossroads between hip-hop et funkof the social dances, from the African diaspora.

Dance traces can be discovered on Wednesday January 22 at 12:30 p.m. at the Champs Libres. From 10 years old.

Italian dances

“Garance Bréhaudat and Inés Hernández from the Rennes company Corps Magnétiques invite you to discover the richness of traditional Italian dancesthrough steps of scottish calabraise, of it pinches or even ballarella »presents the Waterproof festival.

To participate, the reservation is desired at this email address [email protected]. Meet at the Halle Saint-Hélier, Sunday January 26, at 10:30 a.m. From 8 years old (duration 1 hour 30 minutes). Come with comfortable shoes for dancing.

Dance in games

The Betton media library offers, Wednesday January 29 at 2:30 p.m. and until 5 p.m., to consider dancing as a family through games.

Use cards and dice to get moving, solve challenges, explore behind the scenes of the creation of a show with a game of goose…

Some games, popular, will be known to all when others, unpublished, will have been developed by artists. Open to all.

Phasmatodea

With PhasmatodeaFabien Almakiewicz will deliver a performance, alone on stage. “A hybrid work, between dance, installation and artistic performance while drawing inspiration from the material, construction gestures and our connection to space. »

Upon his arrival, Fabien Almakiewicz sets about gluing together hundreds of white A4 sheets, creating a work in constant transformation. Through rhythmic movements and inventive gestures, Fabien Almakiewicz gives life to a resolutely free and mutating work, where man and matter become one.

Appointment Wednesday January 29 at 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Rennes Museum of Fine Arts. From six years old.

Garrrrrj

This show will be produced by Aëla Labbé of the Compagnie Lucane. A solo “oceanic rock, visual et sensory » where “wind, water and gargles will be there”.

This solo will be followed by a workshop Dance your ocean rockon pieces of Lou Reed or even Patti Smith.

Wednesday January 29 to 4:30 p.m. at the Triangle Library. Reservations are recommended with the Triangle library on 02 23 62 26 95. From 18 months. The show lasts 30 minutes and the workshop, 20 minutes.

Live from Mercedes Dassy

Dancer and choreographer Mercedes Dassy will present songs from his show Spongebabe in L.A. (4 Love & Anxiety).

See you Wednesday January 29 at the Aire Libre theater in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande from 10 p.m.

His (paid) show Ruuptuur will be presented Tuesday January 28 and Wednesday January 29.

To find the entire Waterproof festival program, here is the official website of the event.

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