2009 Lab residency

Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon – Society of Spectacle

Projet In Situ

August 21 – September 8

Marlboro College and Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) plan to host a 19-day residency with French choreographers Martin Chaput and Martial Chazallon in August-September 2009. The residency will include activities that will bring the French choreographic team together with American composer, Jason Treuting, professional dancers from the region, college-level dance students and general audiences in the context of a creative residency, which will include workshops, classes, recording studio sessions and informal performances in Marlboro,Vermont.

As part of a three-week creative residency, Chaput and Chazallon, will involve 3-5 dancers and 15 members of the community in the research and development of a new work, “Society of Spectacle,” a new work which is scheduled to premiere in September 2010 at the Bienale de la Danse in Lyon, France.

Through open workshop in May and August, a small group of regional choreographers and a larger group of volunteers will learn about the project, and be selected to participate in the residency. The artists and community members will participate in a two-week creative process which will include workshops, discussions and experimentations in sound and movement . Participants will work intensively with choreographers Chaput and Chazallon, and composer Jason Treuting. The residency will culminate in a work-in-progress showing.

Additionally, dance and music students at Marlboro College will have the opportunity to engage with the artists through on-campus workshops.

The aim of the residency is to support the creation and development of Chaput and Chazallon’s new work, to promote a French-American cultural exchange, to nurture regional artists by providing performance techniques and information from across the Atlantic and bring international and experimental dance to local audiences.