STEP BY STEP BOOGIE WOOGIE: performances by Tilhenn Klapper and Carisa Bledsoe
𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬: performance Les Trois Vieilles by Tilhenn Klapper (voice + dance) and Mehdi Besnainou (guitar)
𝟮𝟬:𝟬𝟬: participatory and gustatory performance House Rent Party (Harlem, 1944) by Carisa Bledsoe
𝗗𝗶̂𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗺, free donation, reservation requested: info@space-collection.org
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Tilhenn Klapper recalls how the gestures of ritual, repetition and traditional movements, in this case inspired by her Breton origins, enable new perceptions of reality, and even states of trance. Accompanied by Mehdi Besnainou on electric guitar, she presents Les Trois Vieilles, a piece developed in 2022 inspired by Breton dance steps and their ghosts.
Tilhenn Klapper is a Franco-American multimedia artist and choreographer, with degrees from the Beaux-Arts de Paris (MFA – Atelier Danse-Chorégraphie Emmanuelle Huynh), Sciences Po Paris (MA – Political Ecology), and Vassar College in NY (BA, Art History and Philosophy). Born in Vermont (USA) into a family of traditional Japanese medicine therapists, she grew up in Brittany. She is interested in the forms and practices linking humans to the invisible and the sacred in pre-modern times. Her works are ways of keeping in touch with the memories and hallucinations embedded in the earth. She is currently working on Celtic funerary statuary and traditional Breton dance.
The contribution of Carisa Bledsoeborn in Texas and living in Lyon, is central to this reinterpretation of a Western cultural heritage in the light of the present. A dancer by training, Carisa recalls that Boogie Woogie, of African-American origin, was born in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century. She proposes to remind us of the historical and cultural context of Boogie Woogie coexisting with that of Mondrian, the House Rent Parties of Harlem where musicians competed to financially support the rent of their hosts. For all guests, dinner and music were offered in exchange for money in a jar.
Carisa dreams of a utopian queer community. She is interested in issues of sexuality and gender, race, childhood and the sea. Carisa holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Interarts Performance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U.S.A.), a Masters in Benesh Choreology from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and is a certified Yoga and Mindfulness Teacher. She participates in artistic projects in Europe, South America and the United States. In France, Carisa has danced at the “Paris L’Été” Festival, at the “Grand Bal” project at the Grand Palais, as part of the “MOVE” festival at the Centre Pompidou, at the Confort Moderne in Poitiers, at the Cité Internationale des Arts, and met Gaëlle Bourges as part of “Camping”, at the Centre National de la Danse Lyon, in 2019. His painting work is on permanent display at the Memphis Zoo, Tennessee, and his erotic notation floats on the underground zine scene in São Paulo, Brazil.