A unique collaboration
The exhibition Corps et Accords comes from the coming together of the Conservatoire du 10e Hector Berlioz and three photographers. This cooperation takes shape through exchanges between the Conservatoire and the Centre Paris Anim’ Jean Verdier (CRL10). Then, the project is brought to life through the cultural association Images O Pluriel and the three photographer members.
The association Images O Pluriel has the mission of making photography and video thrive and shine in all their forms. It upholds the belief that visual expression is a powerful vehicle for culture, dialogue and sharing. Images O Pluriel runs photo and video workshops at the Centre Paris Anim’ Jean Verdier.
An artistic look at the Conservatoire du 10e
At the Conservatoire Hector Berlioz in the 10th arrondissement, photographers Céline Bonnarde, Christian
Campion and Sophie Campion turn their gaze on two disciplines that respond to each other.
Céline captures the musicians of the Conservatoire’s Big Band during a jazz concert at the Petite Halle de La Villette: the listening, the rhythm, the dialogue between instruments, the place of each person within the ensemble and the space left for interpretation.
Sophie and Christian, for their part, follow the dancers during a classical dance class: the learning, the repetition of movements, the precision of postures, but also the attention paid to others and those moments when individualities come together in a shared movement.
Three artists, three viewpoints that intertwine to tell a single reality: learning alone and progressing together, mastering in order to let go, up to that fragile instant when the learned gesture becomes an artistic gesture and where, from the individual to the collective, emotion is born.
; Crédits : Sophie Campion L’individualité ne disparaît pas dans le collectif : elle vient le nourrir
; Crédits : Celine Bonnarde Répéter un geste. Encore et encore.
Seeking the rightness of a movement, a posture, a note. Listening, observing,
starting again. Learning to master one’s body, one’s instrument, one’s rhythm.
For before free movement, there is repeated gesture. Before improvisation, listening. Before
emotion, hours of work, rigour and attention.
This work is first of all intimate. Each person learns, repeats, refines their gesture, finds their rhythm and
builds their own mastery. But learning also happens together. One must learn to
listen to the other, to watch, to attune oneself, to find one’s place.
Dancing together. Playing together. Forming a body, forming a group.
The individuality does not disappear in the collective: it nourishes it. Every gesture, every
presence, every interpretation takes part in a common movement. One progresses alone,
but also in contact with others.
Then, little by little, forget.
Forget technique so that something else can appear: an intention, a presence, an
emotion. The body is freed, the musicians converse, the gesture becomes interpretation.
It is in this space, between mastery and letting go, between individuality and collective, between
discipline and expression, that dance and music meet.
A Town Hall open to culture
The exhibition will be presented from 2 to 20 November on the 2nd floor of the Mairie du 10e, which regularly hosts many artistic events in its hall, its party room, its wedding room but also its galleries.
Opening on Monday 2 November at 19:00