Les Passe-Temps du bal - Jean-Etienne Despréaux’s Memoirs of the Ball
(Irène Feste, e.a.)
Based on Jean-Etienne Despréaux’s writings, notably his Passe-Temps, his Terpsichorographie, and his Souvenirs..., we will evoke the emblematic balls he took part in, their repertoire and their preparation periods, showing the span of styles and contexts he experienced.
You will see Despréaux, himself, at a ball given by Marie-Antoinette, performing a dance next to his wife the Guimard, or giving a deportment lesson to the Emperor...
This show is the result of various research works on dances of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in connection with the workshops proposed during the Symposium.
Dancers: Irène Feste – Danses au (Pas)sé, Hubert Hazebroucq – Les Corps Eloquents, Guillaume Jablonka – Divertimenty
Irène Feste, Arcueil, France:
Irène Feste is a choreographer, dancer and teacher of classical ballet and historical dance, from the Renaissance to the late 19th century.
After a diploma of master engineer in telecommunications and networks and state diploma of teacher in classical dance, she joined, in 2005, the company the L’Éclat des Muses, directed by Christine Bayle and together with P.-F. Dollé went on to found the company Fantaisies Baroques. In 2020, she found the company Danses au (Pas)sé. She performs with companies such as Les Corps Eloquents, Divertimenty, Le Baroque Nomade, La Tempesta, Doulce Mémoire and has been awarded several research grants from the Centre national de la Danse. Her current research interests focus on French 19th century ballroom and theatre dance (Jean-Henri Gourdoux-Daux, Michel Saint-Léon, Jean-Etienne Despréaux).
Hubert Hazebroucq, Paris, Frankreich:
Hubert Hazebroucq is a choreographer, dancer, teacher and independant researcher specialized in Renaissance and Baroque dance since 1998. With his company Les Corps Eloquents, founded in 2008, he is invited in many international festivals (Utrecht) and he performs with famous early music ensembles like Doulce Mémoire. He is a board member of the association of searchers ACRAS17-18, and holds a Master degree on ballroom dancing around 1660. He works principally on the technique and poetics in dance from the 15th to the 18th century.
Guillaume Jablonka, Asnieres sur Seine, Frankreich:
Guillaume Jablonka trained as a ballet dancer in Strasbourg and discovered baroque dance while working for L'Eventail (M.G. Masse). He then performed for Ana Yepes, Sigrid T'Hooft, Deda Cristina Colonna or Hubert Hazebroucq. In 2006 he founded Divertimenty and choreographed several shows. His research focuses mainly on the reconstruction of the divertissements and pantomime ballets notated in 1782 by Auguste Ferrere. Paris Sorbonne University invited him to teach baroque dance to students interested in HIP.
