THIS IS NOT (an act of love & resistance)

A dance and live music performance. A show that creates imaginary worlds around the concepts of air and breathing through dance, music and the rhythm of speech.

THIS IS NOT (an act of love & resistance) is a musical and choreographic piece for nine female performers, among which four brass instrument musicians and five dancers.
How do we generate energy through this element and what does it mean to breathe together today? If air were a harbinger of things to come, what imaginative worlds and representations of the future would emerge from it?
Here, air is imagined as a container of traces and resonances, an element of interdependence of bodies, a canvas to create a choreographic mesh.

Aina Alegre is a choreographer and dancer. After multidisciplinary training in dance, theatre and music in Barcelona, Aina Alegre joined the CNDC in Angers in 2007. In 2014, she founded the company STUDIO FICTIF in Paris to acompany her projects and creations. Since then, her work has been presented in various countries including Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Peru and Romania. Aina Alegre is interested in choreographic creation as a way of opening up imaginary worlds around the body. Her work explores the body in plastic environments, and her choreographic writing is closely linked to rhythm and music. In January 2023, Aina Alegre became co-director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble in tandem with dancer Yannick Hugron.

Conception & artistic direction: Aina Alegre / With: Maria Astallé, Maria Cofan, Cosima Grand, Hanna Hedman, Kotomi Nishiwaki, Maria Puertas, Gwendal Raymond, Julia Soler, Aina Alegre replacing Asha Thomas / Lighting design: Jan Fedinger / Electroacustic music composition: Josep Tutusaus / Creation of the sound space: Vanessa Court / Costumes design: Andrea Otin / Artistic and dramaturgical support: Quim Bigas / Choreographer assistants: Yannick Hugron & Aniol Busquets / Stage manager: Juliette Rudent-Gili / Musics: Better Future Blues of Enric Alegre and Liberty Funeral March of Liberty Brass Band / Touring: Colette Siri, Damien Valette / Thanks to: Enric Alegre whose piece Better Future Blues accompagnied this creation from the beginning to the end, and to Pere Jou & Elsa Dumontel

https://ainaalegre.com / / https://en.ccn-grenoble.com/

Producer: STUDIO FICTIF / Executive producer: Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble / Co-producers & partners: December Dance (Cultuurcentrum and Concertgebouw Brugge), Belgium; Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona – associated artist 2022 & 2023; Grec Festival, Barcelona; La Rose des Vents, Scéne nationale Lille Métropole Villeneuve d'Ascq; Le Manège, scéne nationale de Maubeuge; La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse Occitanie; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val- de-Marne; Théâtre et cinéma de Choisy-le-Roi; Theater Freiburg, Germany; Transfabrik Fund - Franco-German Fund for the Performing Arts; Atelier de Paris / CDCN with the support of: Patronage Caisse des Dépôts; DRAC Île-de-France; Département du Val de Marne; Région Île-de-France; Adami, an organization for the collective management of performers' rights: management of rights, financial aid for projects, defense of interests and career support; SACD stage music fund; CNDC, Angers
Coproduction and promotion on tour of the Mercat de les Flors