Projet Noir

<p> From <strong>June 10th to June 15th 2014</strong> , Projet Noir takes you on a cultural and festive week on the theme "<strong>Black is a Color</strong>" including exhibition, contemporary dance , drama play, cabinet of curiosities, shop and special final dinner.</p> <p> It forms part of the annual "<strong>French May</strong>" festival  in Hong Kong witch promotes French art in all its forms (theater, cinema, painting, photography, gourmet food, music, dance etc …)  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="3_cranes_space" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/78673/3_cranes_space.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> "<em><strong>Suddenly , we , the moderns , have lost the night</strong></em> "  (Pascal Quignard)</p> <p>  </p> <p> This sentence is the origin of Projet Noir. It is the starting point of a reflection on our relationship with darkness - with this night that we lost - with the pendular blackness that always gave rhythm to our life and that seems to have all but vanished of our modern electric urban every days  lives. We are no longer bask in the ink of the night. We lost its load of silence, peace, bestiality, creativity, mystery, sensualism…</p> <p> We lost its color.</p> <p> Black is the ideal cloak of austerity (monks, dark frocks of the bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century), the definitive statement of luxury (tuxedo or caviar) but also the summons images of misery (soot, grime, coal mines). Black is contradictory, mysterious. It is the before and the after, the sea and the sky. </p> <p> It is the night.</p> <p> Black is multiple, magical, powerful. It scares &amp; it attracts.</p> <p> Black is not innocent.</p> <p>  </p> <p> The idea germinated, then came the impetuous desire to work with this raw matter, for a meeting with this lost dark , for a search for artistic forms which would allow us to think the night, to evoke the after-evening, to taste the dark.</p> <p> <strong>Projet Noir , through exhibition, dance show, drama etc… offer an exciting ballad in search of  the beauties, the secrets, the pleasures and the symbolism of the Black, of the Night.</strong></p> <p>  </p> <p> <a href="http://www.projetnoirhongkong.com">www.projetnoirhongkong.com</a>    <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/217638651767190/">https://www.facebook.com/events/217638651767190/</a></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>All the events will come to life, meet and overlap in a same beautiful place</em> <em>located in the arty district of Sheung Wan on Hong Kong island.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Opening night with all the artists, drinks, performances</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> On Tuesday, June 10th from 6 to 9 pm, Projet Noir opens its doors. </p> <p> One will discover the displays with drinks &amp; amuses-gueule, dance performances,</p> <p> graffiti artists live &amp; meeting with actors, dancers and all Projet Noir artists.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Pn_artistes" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/77983/PN_artistes.jpg"></p> <p> Christophe BONACORSI, Fabrice MICHEL, Erick DESHORS, Adrien DANTOU,</p> <p> Hao YANG, Laura ARIS ALVAREZ, Alvaro ESTEBAN.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Exhibition of Christophe Bonacorsi painting</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> Christophe Bonacorsi lives and works in Paris. His studio in Montreuil overflows with his black production. </p> <p> Working this unique and captivating deep matt black, he seeks, infinitely, the meaning, the weight &amp; the raw matter at the core of us.</p> <p> limbs, faces, dogs vanish and reappear in his black universe, matt and radical.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Nu_au_baba" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/77889/Nu_au_Baba.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>"The work of Christophe Bonacorsi is unique in the obsessive consistency of its approach and the unapologetic violence of his representations. There is no attempt to soften the blow. </em></p> <p> <em>Pursued in isolation, this process is guided by its rigor, its fierce rejection of any concession to taste or civility. Completely  autobiographical “  </em></p> <p> Philippe Dagen<i>, </i>Art historian, Art critic in <i>Le Monde</i></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Noir_portrait_cb_s" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/76424/Noir_portrait_CB_S.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <i>"The work of Bonacorsi has a deep inner truth and without apparent seduction, contains a great plastic beauty.”  </i></p> <p> Nelly Gabriel Art critic in <i>Sous l’Oeil du peintre, Lyon Figaro.</i></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Drama play “La Nuit Sexuelle”</strong></u> (french with english subtitle)  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>directio</em>n : Fabrice Michel</p> <p> <em>acting </em> Erick Deshors</p> <p> <em>dance </em> Adrien Dantou</p> <p> <em>adaptation of Quignard's text </em> Fabrice Michel and Lalie Choffel</p> <p> <em>music</em>  Arno, Tuxedo Moon, Portishead</p> <p> <em>co-production </em> Tu Ying productions &amp; Alice Rensy productions</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Tableau_nuit_sexuelle" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/77905/Tableau_Nuit_Sexuelle.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>Pascal QUIGNARD is a French writer. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt (2002) for The Wandering Shadows. He is a prominent voice in contemporary French literature and his prose widely studied.</em></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Pn_theatre_artists" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/78672/PN_theatre_artists.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> Let us not talk much about what we will see and hear here.</p> <p> Let the mystery mellow our pleasure.</p> <p> Just know that this is a journey into the night</p> <p> where everything is at stake, the true place of the founding act of life.</p> <p> Where impulses that give life and death move freely. </p> <p> Where we come from and where we return tirelessly. Where we love.</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Dance shows </strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> Dancers.</p> <p> With them let us go back into the soft and warm darkness before life</p> <p> Where we all started</p> <p> Let us walk in the calm or jittery darkness of our every nights</p> <p> Where we all dream</p> <p> Let us face the mysterious and infinite darkness of the after</p> <p> Where we all rest.</p> <p> Let the dancers express it.</p> <p> Their night.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><u>“Black Potential”</u></em></p> <p> <em>artistic collaboration</em>  Adrien Dantou, Yang Hao, Alice Rensy,</p> <p> <em>performers </em>Adrien Dantou, Yang Hao </p> <p>  </p> <p> <em><u>"Microacciones"</u></em></p> <p> created &amp; performed by Laura Aris</p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><em>"Cualquier Mañana" &amp; "The Matches"</em></u></p> <p> created &amp; performed by Laura Aris &amp; Alvaro Esteban</p> <p>  </p> <p> <em>co-production</em>  Tu Ying productions &amp; Alice Rensy productions  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Cualquier_manana_2_bw" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/82635/Cualquier_Manana_2_BW.jpg"></p> <p> <img alt="Noir_adrien_1" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/77809/Noir_Adrien_1.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Web_hao" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/78674/web_hao.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Cualquier_manana_4_bw" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/82637/Cualquier_Manana_4_BW.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Cabinet of Curiosities</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> Display of unusual objects: discover, admire -and acquire- shells, stuffed animals, horns, skeletons, photographs, minerals, books, jewelry, tableware, etc…</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Cabinet_de_curiosit__georg_haintz" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/77985/Cabinet_de_Curiosit__Georg_Haintz.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Black dinner</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> The last day a puzzling gourmet black food dinner is held for food enthusiasts, art lovers &amp; black addicts. Inspired from a Georges Perec novel and developed by our team, this unique dinner is an opportunity to experiment the curious association of black &amp; food, to enjoy the flavour of Black. </p> <p> Laura Aris &amp; Alvaro Esteban will perform «The Matches» before the dinner.</p> <p> The two of them, as well as all the artists of Projet Noir will share the dinner with the guests.</p> <p>  </p> <p> <img alt="Diner_noir_kkbb" src="https://kkbb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/project_image/image/77908/Diner_Noir_KKBB.jpg"></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>The Team</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Lalie Choffel</strong> <i>production, artistic direction</i></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Alice Rensy</strong><i><strong> </strong>co-production, choreography</i></p> <p>  </p> <p> <strong>Christophe Bonacorsi</strong> <i> paintings</i></p> <p> <a href="http://www.projetnoirhongkong.com/#!christophebonacorsi/c1a0c">http://www.projetnoirhongkong.com/#!christophebonacorsi/c1a0c</a></p> <p> <strong>Fabrice Michel</strong><i><strong> </strong>direction</i></p> <p> <a href="http://vimeo.com/83682363">http://vimeo.com/83682363</a></p> <p> <strong>Erick Deshors</strong><i> acting</i></p> <p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_zBj9EobeI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_zBj9EobeI</a></p> <p> <strong>Adrien Dantou</strong><i> dance</i></p> <p> <a href="http://www.adriendantou.com/">http://www.adriendantou.com</a></p> <p> <strong>Hao Yang</strong><i><strong> </strong> dance</i></p> <p> <a href="http://www.the-contact.org/artists/yang.html">http://www.the-contact.org/artists/yang.html</a></p> <p> <strong>Laura Aris Alvarez</strong><i>  dance choreography</i></p> <p> <a href="http://www.hkapa.edu/faculty/aris-alvarez-laura">http://www.hkapa.edu/faculty/aris-alvarez-laur</a><a href="http://www.hkapa.edu/faculty/aris-alvarez-laura">a</a></p> <p> <strong>Isabelle Annet</strong><i>  stylism</i></p> <p> <a href="http://www.izabelleannett.com/">http://www.izabelleannett.com</a></p> <p> <strong>Alvaro Esteban</strong><i> dance choreography</i></p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p> <u><strong>Contact</strong></u></p> <p>  </p> <p> Projet Noir</p> <p> Lalie Choffel <i>  </i><a href="http://[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a> / (852) 6906 2330 - (33) 06 72 90 11 76</p> <p>  </p> <p> Dance</p> <p> Alice Rensy  <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> / (852) 69089048</p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p> <p>  </p>