SATURDAY, MAY 27, 2023 FROM 7:30 PM
A UNIQUE FAMILY • CLAIRE DURAND-DROUHIN
Boris Hristov House of Culture 

The beauty of dance can sprout from the most bizarre rendezvous of dancers from different, even opposing margins of society.
UNE FAMILLE SINGULIÈRE shows us what would happen if a psychiatric patient and a person of outstanding talent in sport, science, or art, for example, were brought together in the same place. It is a participatory performance that comes not as a reserved territory for virtuoso dancers, but as an open invitation for local participants to get involved.
French choreographer Claire Durand-Drouin brings together 7 professional dancers from her company Traction with 7 local dancers from different communities. This extraordinary encounter, which would not have happened otherwise, relies on the provocation of stepping out of the comfort zone and the psychological and physical interaction between strangers to find new forms of dance. Participants will have to shake off their assumptions and habits of working with the body and will form an unexpected family on stage. Its members didn’t have the opportunity to know each other earlier, but they might do something beautiful together now.
CLAIRE DURAND-DROUHIN
After graduating from the London Contemporary Dance School in 1998, Claire Durand-Drouhin joined Philippe Saire’s company in Lausanne and Jacky Auvray’s company in Caen.
From 2000 to 2009, she accompanied Nieke Swennen in the company IN VIVO, working regularly in psychiatric hospitals and participating in several creations including Intiem, Presto Jubilato and La Chambre D’ange.
She created the Traction company in 2007, she works every month in the psychiatric hospital of Limoges and is also involved in artistic actions in prisons (prisons of Limoges, Val d’Oise, Versailles, Vivonnes…). In 2010 she created CHAMBRE 10, in 2013 – VIE DE FAMILLE, in 2016 – WHO’S BACH?, and in 2018 – PORTRAIT DE GROUPE AVEC FEMME(S).
She also directs documentaries for television (Fr3, Planète…), in partnership with Pyramide Production. Blanche-Neige en prison (2011) is a 52′ documentary about a dance workshop with a group of women inmates of the Poitiers-Vivonne prison. In 2013, a second documentary entitled Seconde Danse follows Beatrice’s journey out of prison and back into dance. Today she has just finished her third documentary (Fr 3) Le monde autrement, recounting her encounter with patients with behavioural problems with whom she has been dancing for five years.

ONE DANCE WEEK 2023 is realized with the support of the Ministry of Culture and is part of the Heritage Programme of Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019. The event is supported by European Roads and Plovdiv Municipality.

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