TALK "D'UN PODIUM À L'AUTRE."
Thursday 22 Aug / 19:45 - 20:30
AVEC MAUD LE PLADEC, LUCKY LOVE ET MOHAMMED EL KHATIB
Talk interprété en Langue des Signes Française
Sportsmen and women or artists, bodies are invited on stage, in a theatre or a stadium, to give flesh to a work of art or a match. They are drawn on canvases, sculpted since antiquity, immortalised in historical photographs. Each in their own field tells of beauty, grace and sweat. What are the limits of these bodies? How does sport influence the work of artists? Conversely, what relationships are forged between music, literature, the performing arts and the lives of sportsmen and women? How do sport and culture break down the diktats of a standardised body?
With Olympic ceremonies choreographer Maud Le Pladec, singer Lucky Love, who has made his physicality a singularity and a strength, and director and playwright Mohamed El Khatib, renowned for building bridges between sport and culture.
Maud Le Pladec
OLYMPIC CEREMONIES CHOREOGRAPHER
Maud Le Pladec is a choreographer who has directed the Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans since 2017. She began as a dancer at the CCN in Montpellier, then created her first pieces in 2010, before taking over as director of the Orléans-based institution. In 2016 she worked at the Opéra national de Paris with Thomas Jolly on his staging of the opera Eliogabalo.
At the CCN d’Orléans, Maud Le Pladec’s project is open to all forms of dance and responsive, with a focus on young creation. Her pieces offer a contemporary dance that combines popular and learned cultures. In Silent Legacy, presented at the Festival d’Avignon in 2021, she stages a 10-year-old dancer who practices krump, an urban dance born in Los Angeles. The common thread running through Maud Le Pladec’s work is her strong commitment to gender equality and her attachment to music, the visual arts and text. She is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters and of the National Order of Merit. She will be the new director of the CCN-Ballet de Lorraine from January 2025.
Lucky Love
SINGER-SONGWRITER
Long a figurehead at Madame Arthur’s cabaret, he has the exuberance of a rock star and the modesty of a poet. At just 30, Lucky Love has already lived a thousand lives, all of which are reflected in his songs. The promise of a dense musical work haunted by the spirit of James Blake, Antony and the Johnsons or, closer to home, Christophe, since his lyrics are in both English and French.
The daring musical production was entrusted to an original quartet bringing together the best of chanson, rap and electro: Jérémy Châtelain, Prinzly, Paco Del Rosso and Nömak. This is Lucky Love’s strength: bringing together people and talents that nothing would have predicted would meet. A luminous artist, who radiates when he plays and electrifies when he sings.
But he is also a committed artist: ‘On behalf of all the people who, like me, have suffered from a lack of representation, this is a middle finger to political correctness or the norm. It’s also a way of becoming the example I didn’t have growing up, and that’s a wonderful gift.
Mohamed El Khatib
AUTHOR, DIRECTOR AND VISUAL ARTIST
Author, director and visual artist Mohamed El Khatib develops projects at the crossroads of performance, literature and cinema. Through intimate and social epics, he creates opportunities for encounters between art and those who are far removed from it.
Alongside his projects for the stage, Mohamed El Khatib has developed́ an artistic research in collaboration with several artists. In Savoie, alongside Valérie Mréjen, he initiated́ the creation of the first art centre in Ehpad.
At the Mucem, he created the monumental Renault 12 exhibition, inspired by the car journeys of Franco-Maghrebi families.
Mohamed El Khatib is an associate artist at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the Théâtre National de Bretagne and the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.
