Gaëtan Bulourde

wpZimmer resident in 2019

Gaëtan Bulourde is educated as a mathematician and musician. He developed an interest for dance through encounters with students from the CNDC in Angers and took classes in contact improvisation, contemporary dance, Feldenkreiss, yoga, a.o.

Since 1998 he initiates multidisciplinary projects on the crossroads of dance, theatre and performance such as Not Every Object Used To Nail Is A Hammer from 2008. As dancer/performer Gaëtan has worked with Meg Stuart, Xavier Le Roy, Maria-Clara Villa Lobos, Thomas Lehmen, Christian Rizzo and others.

In 2010 Gaëtan created Already Made with the support of the informal network WEB. In the frame of this collaboration wpZimmer took care of the production and diffusion of the performance.

https://bulgaet.book.fr/

projects

Already Made

Already Made is of course a direct reference to the ready made objects Marcel Duchamp defined as “an everyday object promoted to objet d’art by the artist’s choice.” Objects which in theory are harmless and of no value, Gaëtan Bulourde uses them in his own way, amusing himself by hijacking them and making them into performance vehicles. In this creation, the object of the performance is the performance itself. The “already performance” thus becomes the vocabulary for a project mocking itself.

EXTRA INFO

Project year: 2010

CREDITS

Concept: Gaëtan Bulourde
With: Werner Hirsch, Valérie Castan, Gaëtan Bulourde
Lights: Sylvie Garrot
Sound: Fred Bigot
Production: wpZimmer
Co-production: VilLa Lobos asbl, network Open Latitudes / Latitudes Contemporaines (Rijsel), Les Halles de Schaerbeek (Brussel)
Thanks to: HAU (Berlijn)
With the support of: Het Ministerie van de Franse Gemeenschap Wallonië-Brussel – Service de la Danse

PROJECT DATES

28/10/2011, Monty/Amperdans, Antwerp (BE)
29/10/2011, Monty/Amperdans, Antwerp (BE)
06/07/2011, Arts Station Foundation, Poznan (PL)
21/06/2011, Jardin de l’Evêché, Uzès (FR)
29/04/2011, Kunstencentrum Buda, Kortrijk (BE)
19/03/2011, Vooruit/Say it Now!, Ghent (BE)
29/03/2011, HAU, Berlin (DE)
30/03/2011, HAU, Berlin (DE)
15/02/2011, Theater Frascati/Something I, Amsterdam (NL)
16/02/2011, Theater Frascati/Something I, Amsterdam (NL)
16/06/2010, Maison Folle Beaulieu/Latitudes, Lille (FR)