An exhibition from November 2 to 20 that highlights the students of the Hector Berlioz Conservatory!
An unprecedented collaboration The Bodies & Chords exhibition was born from the connection between the 10th arrondissement's Hector Berlioz Conservatory and three photographers. This cooperation took shape through exchanges between the Conservatory and the Paris Anim' Jean Verdier Center (CRL10). Then, it was through the cultural association Images O Pluriel and three member photographers that the project came to fruition. The Images O Pluriel association's mission is to bring photography and video to life and make them shine in all their forms. It advocates that visual expression is a powerful vector of culture, dialogue, and sharing. Images O Pluriel organizes photo and video workshops at the Paris Anim' Jean Verdier Center.
An artistic perspective on the 10th arrondissement At the Hector Berlioz Conservatory in the 10th arrondissement, photographers Céline Bonnarde, Christian Campion, and Sophie Campion cast their eye on two disciplines that respond to each other. Céline captures the musicians of the Conservatory's Big Band during a jazz concert at the Petite Halle de La Villette: listening, rhythm, dialogue between instruments, each person's place within the ensemble, and the space left for interpretation. Sophie and Christian, meanwhile, follow the dancers during a classical dance class: the learning, repetition of gestures, precision of postures, but also the attention paid to others and those moments when individualities come together in a shared movement.
Three artists, three perspectives intertwined to tell the same reality: learning alone and progressing together, mastering to better let go, until that fragile moment when the learned gesture becomes an artistic gesture and, from the individual to the collective, emotion is born.
; Credits: Sophie Campion
Individuality does not disappear in the collective: it nourishes it
; Credits: Celine Bonnarde
Repeat a gesture. Again and again. Seek the rightness of a movement, a posture, a note. Listen, observe, start again. Learning to master one's body, one's instrument, one's rhythm. For before free movement, there is the repeated gesture. Before improvisation, there is listening. Before emotion, there are hours of work, rigor, and attention.
This work is first and foremost intimate. Each person learns, repeats, refines their gesture, finds their rhythm, and builds their own mastery. But learning also happens together. One must learn to listen to the other, to watch, to harmonize, to find one's place. Dance together. Play together. Form a body, form a group. Individuality does not disappear in the collective: it nourishes it. Each gesture, each presence, each interpretation participates in a common movement. We progress alone, but also through contact with others.
Then, gradually, forget. Forget the technique to let something else appear: an intention, a presence, an emotion. The body frees itself, the musicians dialogue, the gesture becomes interpretation. It is in this space, between mastery and letting go, between individuality and collectivity, between discipline and expression, that dance and music meet.
A Town Hall Open to Culture The exhibition will be presented from November 2 to 20 on the 2nd floor of the 10th arrondissement Town Hall, which regularly hosts numerous artistic events in its hall, its reception room, its wedding hall, and its corridors. Opening reception on Monday, November 2 at 7 p.m.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Sophie Campion