Alain Buffard

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Scene from (Not) a Love Song.jpg (2007)

Alain Buffard (* 1960 in Morez , Département Jura ; † December 21, 2013 in Les Rousses , Département Jura) was a French dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance .

Life

Buffard began his dance training in the late 1970s with Alwin Nikolais at the Center national de danse comtemporaine in Angers . He quickly developed into a noted interpreter of the so-called new French dance at the side of Brigitte Farges and Régine Chopinot . He had a long collaboration with Daniel Larrieu . According to the critic of Le Monde, he acquired refined gestures from him , which he gave the right amount of expression.

In the mid-1990s he said goodbye to the dance stage for some time and instead worked in the art gallery of Anne de Villepoix in Paris. By studying sculptures and sculptures , especially by Vito Acconci , Chris Burden and Bruce Naumann , he sought to sharpen his artistic perspective. He also named Oskar Schlemmer , Kasimir Malewitsch and Caravaggio as visual artists who shaped him.

In 1996 he traveled to the USA . There he met Yvonne Rainer and Anna Halprin , who produced performances together with seriously ill artists. These encounters inspired him to do his solo choreography Good Boy , with which he became best known in 1998. In one of the 14 scenes in this piece, the dancer lies on top of stacks of boxes of anti- AIDS medication. Shortly after the first performance of Good Boy in 1998, he founded his own company PI: ES in Paris.

He also dealt with the human body in his 1999 choreography Intime / EXtime . Using costumes filled with styrofoam balls, this is grotesquely puffed up in one scene. In another scene, the three actors, two men and a woman, form a ball of bodies, arms and legs. In another scene, a long-sleeved white undershirt wanders over outstretched arms from one naked or half-naked body to the next.

The critic of Le Monde attests to the piece Mauvais genre from 2003 disturbing melancholy. In this choreography, 20 dancers in white briefs perform on a stage covered with piles of white underwear. Les Inconsolés from 2005, which, following a novel by James Purdy , deals with traumatic sexual experiences of adolescence and puberty , had an even more disturbing effect on the audience .

(Not) a love song from 2007 is one of his lighter and more musically catchy choreographies . Baron Samedi from 2012 was danced by dancers from ethnic minorities. It deals with colonialism and its effects up to the post-colonial present in France.

Alain Buffard was also involved as a curator of art exhibitions: in 2002 with Campy, Vampy, Tacky and in 2005 with conversion / conversion .

Already seriously ill, he realized his last major project, Histoires parallèles, Pays mêlés, in April 2013 . It combined exhibitions, conferences and performances in different places in Nîmes .

literature

  • Rosita Boisseau: Alain Buffard . Le Monde . December 24, 2013, p. 18

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Unless other sources are expressly mentioned, this article follows the presentation by Rosita Boisseau in Le Monde.
  2. ^ Nouvelle danse française
  3. ↑ “Don't you have the refinement you geste en lui donnant son juste poids” - Rosita Boisseau
  4. ↑ sic
  5. ↑ Video sequence on YouTube , accessed on December 26, 2013
  6. ↑ Video sequence on YouTube , accessed on December 26, 2013
  7. ↑ bad variety
  8. ↑ "d'une gravité qui filait la chair de poule" - Rosita Boisseau
  9. ↑ Video sequence on YouTube , announcement on TV Sud Medias, accessed on December 26, 2013
  10. ↑ the inconsolable
  11. ↑ Parallel Stories, Mixed Countries
personal data
SURNAME Buffard, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Morez
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2013
Place of death Les Rousses