French choreographer Mickael Marso Riviere is well known as a hip hop artist, and formed Company Decalage in 2004. Appel meaning “to call” in French was made in collaboration with Navala Chaudhari at The Place during Choreodrome 2007. This trio is based on the live interaction between two dancers and a musician playing bansuri (flute) and tabla and inspired in equal parts by b-boyin’, capoeira and contemporary dance.
CONCEPT & CHOREOGRAPHY: MICKAEL MARSO RIVIERE
DANCERS: MICKAEL MARSO RIVIERE and LILA-MAE TALBOT
MUSIC COMPOSED & PERFORMED LIVE BY: JASON KALIDAS
Running time: 13 min; Number of Performers: 3
Tour Dates
| 10 MARCH | GUILDFORD, PATS DANCE STUDIO |
| 11 MARCH | CHICHESTER, THE SHOWROOM |
| 12 MARCH | CAMBRIDGE, THE JUNCTION |
| 23 MARCH | ABERYSTWYTH, ARTS CENTRE |
| 25 MARCH | LONDON, STRATFORD CIRCUS |
| 14 APRIL | SOUTH SHIELDS, CUSTOMS HOUSE |
| 16 APRIL | KENDAL, BREWERY ARTS CENTRE |
| 17 APRIL | HEXHAM, QUEEN’S HALL |
| 20 MAY | LANCASTER, NUFFIELD THEATRE |
| 21 MAY | DERBY, DEDA |
| 22 MAY | NEWCASTLE, DANCE CITY |
| 28/29 MAY | IPSWICH, DANCEHOUSE |
Biography
Born in France, Marso (a.k.a Mickael Riviere) trained at the Rosella Hightower International Dance School from 1995-97. He then studied aerial circus skills & drama at the Circus Space and gained a certificate in theatre practice in 1999 from the London School of Speech & Drama. He has also graded and trained with the Northen school of Capoeira and Professor Tijolo since 2001.
In 2000 he was employed as an Aerial and Ground artist performing on stilts, bungee and trapeze at the Millennium Dome as part of the New Millennium Experience Company. In 2002 he achieved an access certificate in Music Performance and Drama from South Birmingham College.
Marso has participated in and choreographed numerous commercial events and televised productions including the New Millennium Ceremony, Record Breakers, Ishq Records, Common Wealth Games (2002) and BBC1’s Inside Out (2003). He has also worked with Andile Sotiya as part of London open house at The Place, The Generating Company, Urban Expansions, Alain Marty, Don Kinch and David Framba in “Les Nuits du Mont Romes”(2004), Europeen Athletic Championships Opening Ceremony 2007.
In 2004 he started his professional dance company, Company Decalage, for which he has created two works, Decalage and See and has performed at a range of venues and festivals including DanceXchange, British Dance Edition and Resolution! at The Place, London. In 2006 he was nominated for the Place Prize and in 2007 he took part in The Place’s Choreodrome and TouchWood. The latter led to the early development of Appel. In 2008 Mickael was selected for the semi finals of the Place Prize 08 with “Breaking Point”, a new work made in collaboration with Navala Chaudhari, which is currently being developed as a full-length piece for Company Decalage.
Marso is also in demand as an independent choreographer; he is Associate Artist at the Dancexchange and has worked with artists as diverse as The Bolshoi Ballet/Theatre (in 2007), hip-hop theatre artists Jonzi D, Lianhart and world leading Bboy Team Project Soul (Korea). More recently, he choreographed a piece for the International Raw Energy as part of the International Dance Festival, Birmingham.
An acclaimed teacher and established Bboy, Marso holds a number of weekly Breakin’ classes in London and Birmingham and regularly teaches contemporary repertory classes at organisations such as The Place, London and DanceXchange, Birmingham as well as teaching workshops internationally through his Urban Dance Agency Bboys Attic now regarded as one of the foremost urban dance educators in the UK.
Collaborators
Navala Chaudhari
Navala Chaudhari was born in London and began her training in Shaolin Kung fu (1989-1997) she then completed her professional dance training at the Northern school of Contemporary dance graduating with a BA honours in 2002. In 2003 she completed her post- graduate apprenticeship, performing with Union Dance.
Since then she has toured internationally in Bawren Tavaziva's Kumusha I am Home and danced in the piece Umdlalo Kasis which was selected as a place prize finalist in 2004. She has toured internationally with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company for the productions Transtep (2004) and Flicker (2005) as well Akram Khan Company for the production Ma (2006), UK Tour with Transmission (State of Emergency) and Jean Abreu 2007.
In 2008 Navala was invited to perform at The Place Prize launch party, with Union Dance for the production Heaven on Earth and with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for the production Origine. Other choreographers she has worked with include Andre Gingras, Filip Van Huffel, Rashpal Singh Bansal, Darshan Singh Bhuller, Bernadette Iglich and Janet
Jason Kalidas
Tabla and Bansuri (Indian Classical flute) player, multi-instrumentalist and composer, studied Indian classical music for 13 years in the sacred city of Varanasi (India) and the U.K; he has also worked professionally as a multi percussionists for the past 20 years.
Jasons acclaimed style on Tabla draws from modern and traditional rhythms to create a very distinct form. Using a variety of instruments his dynamic compositions move from the retrospective to the exhilarating. Jason has performed at the U.N, New York; he accompanies great Indian classical musicians on Tabla and tours regularly with some of the world’s top devotional singers.
Biography of Piece
French choreographer Mickael Marso Riviere is well known as a hip hop artist, and formed Company Decalage in 2004. As an independent choreographer he is notably eclectic, working with artists from The Bolshoi Ballet to hip hop crews. In 2007, Marso developed the ideas for APPEL in collaboration with Navala Chaudhari in The Place’s research programme Choreodrome, and subsequently performed it as a work-in-progress in Touch Wood. The work is a trio based on the live interaction between two dancers (Marso and Navala) and Musician (Jason Kalidas) who plays Bansuri (flute) and tabla. The piece portrays the instinctive elements of dance and the spontaneity of music, inspired in equal parts by B-boying, Capoeira and Contemporary dance.
Online Media
www.companydecalage.co.uk
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