Part 2

Creation

“Nijinski à minuit” Working Process

Choreographer Bernardo Montet and musician Alain Mahé,
both of whom were allies of Ko Murobushi for many years,
will be conducting research creation with dancers and filmmakers in France.

Mon corps. Il n’est jamais un, il est toujours innombrable.
Alors, au moment de Minuit, à l’instant de l’heure zéro,
tendant vers d’innombrables corps enlacés et hétérogènes,
d’innombrables Nijinski naîtront !

Ko Murobushi
Choreography

Bernardo Montet

Music

Alain Mahé

Dance

Sarjo Sankareh
Izaskun Insausti
Alison Tomasi
Soleil Koster

Film Director

Cécile Friedmann

Profile

Bernardo Montet
Didier Olivré

Bernardo Montet

After studying psychomotricity, Bernardo Montet met dance with Sylvie Tarraube-Martigny, Jean Masse, and Jacques Garros (founder of Body Work). This decisive meeting brought him to Brussels, where he studied at the Mudra school of Maurice Béjart.
He then continued his career with Catherine Diverrès. When most of the French choreographers went to the United States, he went with Catherine Diverrès to study the Buto dance in Japan with master Kazuo Ohno; a journey that upset his relationship with the dancing body.
Changed by this experience, he surrounded himself with a community of thought with which he shares a same commitment in the acute experience of self and the world (Téo Hernandez, Pierre Guyotat, Claire Denis, Ko Murobushi).
From 1995 to 2000, he co-directed with Catherine Diverrès the National Choreographic Center of Rennes and Brittany and then became artist associated with Quartz. He founded the company Mawguerite. He created O.More, with gnawa musicians, a pivotal piece, which deeply marked his artistic journey and led him in 2003 to be the director of the National Choreographic Center of Tours, which he invented as a sensitive and poetic shared space.
All his pieces are carried by demand and radicality, dealing with subjects that are dear to him: colonialism, memory, identity, body consciousness, resistance. Each choreography emerges from the previous one to create an image that is both similar and different: bodies, in their poetic and political dimension, replay the world around us.
In 2012, he took over the artistic direction of Compagnie Mawguerite, which he set up in Morlaix and became artist associated with the SE/cW project - an arts and research platform combining the cinema La Salamandre, the theater company l'Entresort (Madeleine Louarn), and the electronic music association Wart.

Alain Mahé

Alain Mahé

Compositeur, improvisateur, Alain Mahé développe des musiques électroacoustiques et électroniques. Il crée le groupe Bohème de chic et depuis joue ou compose avec Jean-François Pauvros, Carlos Zingaro, Carol Robinson, Kamal Hamadache, Thierry Madiot, Pascal Battus, Emmanuelle Tat, Patrick Molard, Keyvan Chemirani, Dorothée Munyaneza, Hélène Breshant, Bao Luo,Erwan Keravec,Pauline Renou, Mieko Miazeki… Compose La marée fait flotter les villes - Paul Klee. Il réalise des pièces radiophoniques : Chien de feu, La marée fait flotter les villes, (pour un) Paso Doble (sonore) avec Kaye Mortley. Alain Mahé compose musiques et créations sonores pour le spectacle vivant. Il travaille avec les metteurs en scène François Tanguy et les chorégraphes Carlotta Ikeda, Ko Murobushi, François Verret, Emanuela Nelli, Cécile Borne, le peintre Miquel Barcelò et Josef Nadj sur Paso doble, Nan Goldin sur Sœurs saintes & Sybilles et Scopophilia. Compose la musique des Aveugles de Daniel Jeanneteau, collabore aux spectacles de Pierre Meunier. Il a participé à la naissance au projet collectif Ultimo Round, compose et joue avec le plasticien Michel Caron et le dessinateur Vincent Fortemps.

Sarjo Sankareh

Sarjo Sankareh

Completed his BA in Dance and Pedagogy at the Norwegian College of Dance (NDH) postgraduate studies at Ricks Odums School in Paris (IFPRO) and Horton teacher training at Alvin Ailey in New York.
As a freelance artist Sarjo has worked with dance companies such as Cie Choreonyx (Bruce Taylor), Cie George Momboye, Ko & Edge and Tabanka Dance Ensemble. He has also appeared in the works of various choreographers in many countries. In 2015, he was a dancer for Ko Murobushi's work "Nijinsky a minuit" and participated in the project "Responding to Ko Murobushi" at 2019 in Tokyo.

Izaskun Insausti

Izaskun Insausti

She has studied ballet and contemporary dance in Spain and France, and is familiar with other disciplines including acrobatics, theater, and martial arts. She dances in collaboration with companies and projects from different countries such as LaMov (Spain), B.F.A.M./ S. Manaï (France-Tunisie), Cuatro X Cuatro (Mexique), and L’Hélice/M. Naisy, K. Danse/ J-M. Matos, as well as operas at the Capitole National Theater in Toulouse (France). She currently works with the companies Hors Sol/ M-E. Wachter and Other Side (France-Colombia), with which she is also developing some personal projects. In 2015, she was a dancer for Ko Murobushi's choreographed work "Nijinski à minuit,” and participated in the project "Responding to Ko Murobushi" in 2019 in Tokyo. Izaskun also graduated in physiotherapy.

Soleil Koster

Soleil Koster

After studying contemporary dance, received an award from the Conservatoire national supérieur de danse de Paris in 1993. She has worked with Companies such as Batsheva Ensemble, Ballet Preljocaj, Olivier Dubois, Akys Project and with different styles such as contemporary dance, circus and hip hop. Since 1998 she practices "conscience corporelle et mouvement" with Jacques Garros and Jean Masse.

Alison Tomasi

Alison Tomasi

Having started dance at a young age, Alison won the bronze cup at the Monte-Carlo "New Generation" International Festival with Marie Josée Viviani Academy’s choreographer Vanessa Tristani. After finishing her studies, she joined the James Carles Choreographic Center, training as a "dancer performer" at the “choreographic laboratory.” Alison is currently a dancer for a cabaret.

Cécile Friedmann

Cécile Friedmann

Cecile currently works and lives in Paris. She completed her studies at Institut International de l’Image et du Son at Trappes (Paris) in 2008. As a freelance artist, Cecile (known also as the photographer Chill Okubo) has worked with dance companies such as Cie Mawguerite (Bernardo MONTET) and Cie Radar (Benjamin Karim Bertrand), as well as Cie Mandorle (François Chaignaud) recently for Récital, which will be screened in September 2021 on Musée de l’orangerié’s website and social media. She also worked as a videographer for Beyonce and Jay-Z’s On The Run Tour II (Europe) in 2018. She directed her first film “Moippen Mama!” in 2016, which has been screened at several festivals (FIFF Creteil, Photo Saint Germain, BFI mois du documentaire au Centre Pompidou) and won the Best Film Award at Every Women Biennial in New York. In addition, Cecile is working in parallel as a director of photography on several projects (contemporary artists projects and films) and has directed a number of artists including Jeanne Added, Mansfield Tya, Lucie Antunes, and Leonie Pernet.