Gilles Jobin

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Gilles Jobin, 2000, photo by Erling Mandelmann

Gilles Jobin (* 1964 in Morges ) is a Swiss ballet dancer and choreographer of contemporary ballet .

biography

Gilles Jobin's parents' house was in Saignelégier in the French-speaking Swiss Jura . His father Arthur Jobin is an abstract painter .

Gilles Jobin trained in classical dance relatively late: first at the École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower and then at the Ballet Junior de Genève , which was then directed by Béatriz Consuelo. He then danced in the Lausanne ballet companies of Fabienne Berger and Philippe Saire and with the Catalan choreographer Àngels Margarit .

1990-1999

In 1993 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Geneva Théâtre de l'Usine . There he met the dancer and choreographer Maria Ribot . She became his partner. In 1995 the couple moved to Madrid . There Jobin created his first own choreographies: Three solos with the titles Bloody Mary (1995), Middle Suisse and Only You (1996). In 1997 Jobin and Ribot moved to London , fascinated by English performance art and the vitality of the Institute of Contemporary Arts program . He received a grant from the Artsadmin Foundation and became resident choreographer at the Théâtre Arsenic in Lausanne . There he founded his company Parano Productions and developed his first group choreography, the trio A + B = X . It premiered in 1997 at the Théâtre Arsenic , and in 1999 he performed with it at the Montpellier Danse Festival . The Dictionnaire de la danse described him as a “pioneer of a new generation of independent Swiss choreographers” because of his radical creative practice.

In 1998 he performed his Duo Macrocosm at the Palace Theater in London . In the same year Blinded by Love was created with the English performance artist Franko B and in 1999 the quintet Braindance , which was performed at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Tours in Europe and Brazil followed.

2000-2009

The great quintet The Moebius Strip from 2001 has constant movement as its central theme; it concentrates radically on the horizontal. The piece is also a homage to his father, whose compositions combine geometric rigor with shimmering color contrasts. With this, Jobin turned away from the themes of his earlier works, which dealt with sexuality, nudity and, subliminally, violence and war. In 2002 he created the septet Under Construction . The choreography Two-Thousand-and-Three , which he developed in 2003 for the 22 dancers of the company of the Grand Théâtre de Genève , concluded the trilogy of “organically organized movement” (sic), which was particularly well received by critics. “What amazes - and delights - about Gilles Jobin is his ability to put himself in danger by deepening the central theme of the dance with each new production: the body of the performer. His personal style (...) avoids the pitfalls of the narrative by focusing on abstraction. "

In 2004 he created the piece Delicado for the Lisbon Ballet Gulbenkian . In the same year he moved to Geneva with his family; there the sextet Steak House was established in 2005 . The following year he became an associate artist at the Bonlieu Theater in Annecy . There he produced Double Deux in 2006, Text to Speech in 2008 . With this piece he incorporated the subject of modern technology into his work. Black Swan followed in 2009

2010–

In 2010 Gilles Jobin created Le Chaînon Manquant - The Missing Link - in collaboration with the dancers from the Center de danse Donko Seko from Bamako in Mali . With the work Spider Galaxies in 2011, he deepened his work in the field of movement without any narrative structure.

In 2012 he received the Collide @ Cern award and became a resident choreographer at CERN . He concluded his time at CERN in 2012 with a public lecture on dance and physics. With the piece QUANTUM , which was performed in 2013 at the CMS , he remained connected to CERN. This piece was created in collaboration with the German video artist Julius von Bismarck , winner of the Prix ​​Ars Electronica , the American composer Carla Scaletti and the Belgian fashion designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard . For their work on QUANTUM , Jobin and von Bismarck received support from the Fondation d' entreprise Hermès , and the piece was included in the foundation's program.

In 2015 Gilles Jobin created FORÇA FORTE with the star dancer of his ensemble, Susana Panadés Diaz. This duo again leaned on the laws of quantum physics. For FORÇA FORTE, the choreographer first captured movements at Artanim, a Geneva research center that carries out projects in the fields of orthopedics, sports medicine, 3D animation, VR and augmented reality. In the same year, Jobin shot the 3D film WOMB, which was presented in autumn 2016 on the occasion of the 22nd edition of the GIFF - Geneva International Film Festival. In 2017, Gilles Jobin collaborated with Artanim to create the first immersive VR show about contemporary ballet. With the help of VR glasses and an on-board computer, five viewers immerse themselves in a virtual area where they can move freely and exchange ideas. VR_I received the Grand Prix of Innovation for the most innovative work in the field of new platforms at the 46th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal, where the work was presented as a world premiere in October 2017. VR_I was also awarded the audience award from FNC EXPLORE Performances / Installations for its best VR performance.

Awards

Gilles Jobin has received numerous awards for his work. In 2000 he received the Prix ​​jeune créateur , awarded by the Fondation vaudoise pour la promotion artistique . In 2001 the French Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques awarded him the Nouveau Talent chorégraphique award . In 2004 he received the Prix ​​culturel Leenards. In 2015 he received the Swiss Grand Prix Dance from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture for his contribution to the development of contemporary dance.

The films and documentaries The Moebius Strip and Braindance , made by Vincent Pluss, and Le Voyage de Moebius made by Luc Peter, have been shown at numerous international festivals and have received multiple awards.

Multimedia work

  • 2017: VR_I (choreographic work in immersive virtual reality)

Movies

  • 2016: WOMB (3D film)

Main choreographies

  • 2016: FORÇA FORTE
  • 2013: QUANTUM
  • 2011: Spider Galaxies
  • 2010: Le Chaînon manquant - The Missing Link
  • 2009: Black Swan
  • 2008: Text to Speech
  • 2007: The Moebius Strip & Moebius Kids
  • 2006: Double Deux
  • 2005: Steak House
  • 2004: Delicado for the Gulbenkian Ballet
  • 2003: Two-Thousand-and-Three for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
  • 2002: Under Construction
  • 2001: The Moebius Strip
  • 1999: Macrocosm & Braindance
  • 1997: A + B = X
  • 1996: Middle Suisse & Only You
  • 1995: Bloody Mary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rosita Boisseau: Panorama de la danse contemporaine. 90 chorégraphes , Éditions Textuel, Paris, 2006, pp. 286–287.
  2. ↑ a b Samuel Schellenberg: Gilles Jobin, ideal job  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Le Courrier , January 13, 2006, accessed June 29, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lecourrier.ch  
  3. ↑ a b c Bertrand Tappolet: Gilles Jobin - Corps altérés Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture , cahiers d'artistes collection 2002 , p. 2
  4. ↑ A + B = X , video on Vimeo, accessed on July 29, 2015
  5. ↑ Philippe Le Moal (ed.): Le Dictionnaire de la danse , Éditions Larousse , Paris, 2008, p. 227
  6. ^ Muriel Steinmetz: Des corps à jet continu , L'Humanité , May 11, 2001
  7. ↑ Dominique Frétard: Avec "The Moebius Strip", Gilles Jobin signe une chorégraphie-manifest , Le Monde , May 11, the 2,001th
  8. ^ Marie-Christine Vernay: Jobin, génie de mêlée . Liberation , September 12, 2003
  9. ^ Philippe Noisette: Danse Contemporaine mode d'emploi . Flammarion, Paris 2010, pp. 186 and 220. ISBN 978-2-08-123748-3
  10. ↑ Internet site of the Collide @ Cern ( memento of the original from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 29, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / arts.web.cern.ch
  11. ↑ Cian O'Luanaigh: Public lecture: Dance and physics. November 6, 2012, archived from the original on March 18, 2014 ; accessed on June 30, 2015 (English).
  12. ↑ QUANTUM leaps: CERN artists team up for performance at CMS , website for the performance, September 19, 2013, accessed on June 30, 2015
  13. ↑ New Settings , website of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès , accessed on June 30, 2015
  14. ^ Prix ​​culturel vaudois jeunes créateurs danse 2000 Website of the Fondation vaudoise pour la promotion artistique , accessed on June 30, 2015
  15. ↑ a b Awards , Gilles Jobin's website, accessed June 30, 2015
  16. ^ BAK - Federal Office of Culture - Swiss Grand Prix Dance 2015 to Gilles Jobin. (No longer available online.) In: www.bak.admin.ch. Archived from the original on February 28, 2016 ; accessed on February 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bak.admin.ch

Original French quotes

  1. ↑ «chef de file d'une nouvelle génération de chorégraphes suisses indépendants»
  2. ↑ «mouvement organiquement organisé»
  3. ^ "Ce qui frappe - et ravit - chez Gilles Jobin, c'est sa capacité à se mettre en danger en approfondissant un peu plus la matière première de la danse, le corps de l'interprète, à chaque nouvelle production. Son sens de l'écriture (…) évite the pièges de la narration pour remettre l'abstraction en ligne de mire. »
  4. ↑ artist associé

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personal data
SURNAME Jobin, Gilles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss choreographer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Morges