Based on the performance of Dimitri Chamblas and Boris Charmatz

The second choreography by the duet composed of Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas, Les Disparates, premiered at the Dijon festival Nouvelles Scènes in 1994. Joyful and nostalgic, this work for a dancer and Toni Grand’s sculpture evokes fragmenting «states of dancing». Brought forth without transition are the performer’s conflicting desires and (tugging) physical intentions.

Dancing in Disparates:

EQUALS dance engaged and crafted by pathos

VERSUS dance traced and distanced

VERSUS dance rhythmed by the memory of celebration

In 1999, through the eye of César Vayssié’s camera, Les Disparates became not a «video-dance», a dance film or a musical comedy, but rather a short film, empirical and intuitive. "Cinema allows the integration of dance into reality, the use of its various forms of expression as the peculiar codes of an ordinary story. Talking cinema has been around a long time. Les Disparates is a sound film, but without words pronounced. Without dialogue, cinema often retains traces of theatrical vocabulary. It resorts to grimaces to make itself heard. Beyond that, the force of the image, the power of the choice of frame, movement and the multiplied points of view produce meaning. The choreography of Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas can be a contemporary equivalent of this way of investing the image. It has already escaped from the straitjacket of dance, it has thrown off the dancer’s mask, it integrates the full palette of cinematographic emotion - or rather simply emotion itself - from laughter to grimace, from the weight of feelings to the lightness of the body, of his own in any case. It is an abstraction of cinematographic narrative."

César Vayssié

Director of photography: Madjid Hakimi

Sound engineer: Pierre André with the participation of Olivier Renouf

Choreographic assistant: Julia Cima

1st direction assistant: Jean-Luc Gargadennec

2nd direction assistant: Aurélie Mormesse

Production assistant: Maud Desfachelle

1st camera assistant: Pantxo Arretz

2nd camera assistant: Xavier Castro

Electrician manager: Gilles Papillon

Electrician: Claude Antoniades

Technician: Jacques Callier

Photograph: Frédéric Kihn

Editing: César Vayssié

Grading: Bruno Patin

Mixing: Philippe Gourat, Francis Joly, Art Sonic with the participation of Studio Time, Philippe Bensoussan, Rémy Péronne

Production direction: Angèle Le Grand and Aïssa Liateni 

Created in 2000, the movie Les Disparates won the second price at Festival Springdance cinema 2000 (Utrecht, Pays-Bas)