photos J.Battisti
photos G.Batardon
photos G.Batardon
photo Shawn Koppenhoefer
A-WAY
9 minute solo
Music: Polar
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
Structured improvisation on the theme of illness.
An unfamiliar force which gnaws away at us, shoves us around.
What would be the path to accept and deal with it ?
What trace will be left behind ?
photo G.Batardon
photos Shawn Koppenhoefer
FROM EARTH
7 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Trio Jourdan
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
Why is it so hard to breathe ? Why do we have to re-learn the first thing we did instinctively when we entered the world ?
The challenge doubles when you then have to share your space with another.
We are connected, linked and codependent, but mustn’t we first find our true independence in order to attain the subtle balance required to coexist and grow together ?
Breathe together or suffocate alone.
Together - Alone
MISERERE
7 minute solo and 5 minute Dance For Film
Music: Pierre Henry and Sylvain Chauveau
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
The Mask , illusion or dependence ?
She is her own prisoner, alienated by her own anguish.
She will struggle on her path towards rebirth to catch her breath and gain a fragile freedom.
4-3-2
18 minute piece for 6 dancers from Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve
created on Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve’s dancers
Music: Miss Kittin, Trentemoller and Charles Mugel
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
3 women, 3 worlds:
One has created a virtual world of which she is the heroine.
Another seeks intoxication, in search of short-lived moments of happiness.
To forget in order to reinvent herself.
The last dreams of experiencing sex and orgasm freely without the burden of judgement.
URBAN EVIDENCE
8 minute solo
Music: Telefon Tel Aviv
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
Time is running out. Actions are calculated. Hope is exhausted.
The puppet is dismantled; the machine short-circuited. The race is turned around.
Shared moments. Honesty. Overwhelming hope.
To each their own truth.
"In this splendid sensual duet, Manuel redraws its version of a couple magnetized in the sharing: a perpetual re-conquest of the other, danced on operatic arias."
Le Courrier (Switzerland)
http://www.lecourrier.ch/forsythe_l_art_de_l_entrave
“The partnering was fearless and intricate. ...it was exciting yet tender...”
Eyes on The Arts
IN A BOX
13 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Arvö Part
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
One person, feeling stuck in a box, opens up and lets another share her space.
Together, their own boxes get bigger and bigger, until they feel no more boxes, no more boundaries.
Just space… between, and around them. Enough space, for any possibilities. Space as Freedom.
RITUALS
28 minute piece for 6 dancers
created for Satellite Collective
Music: Nick Jaina
Visual Art: Kevin Draper
Lighting: Brandon Stirling Baker
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
“Rituals” dives into the volcanic beginnings of relationships.
photo L.Robertson
photos J. Cervantes
RIPPLE EFFECT
25 minute piece for 7 dancers
created on Whim W’Him
Lighting: Michael Mazzola
Costumes: Rob Newton
Music: Ty Burho, Nathan Halpern, Dustin O’Halloran, Piano Interrupted, Pimmon, Roll The Dice
The path is long , full of unexpected things/events. We start where we are but never know where we go. Sometimes we go with the flow, sometimes we hold back, resisting. We start with who we are now and wonder who we will become. The ripple effect of each individual personality creates constant shifts and whims in the group that is in endless evolution, transformation, mutation, renewal, flow.
photos Bamberg Fine Art
WALLS ARE HERE TO FALL
25 minute piece for 4 dancers
created for Satellite Collective
Music: Nick Jaina
Visual Art: Kevin Draper
Lighting: Brandon Stirling Baker
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
Written on the Berlin Wall, these words remind us to avoid any separation and isolation between human beings. Through fear we create walls that we call "home" but in reality, they are walls of our imprisonment. Internally, they are defense mechanisms born from hurt and resentment. These walls need to fall.
photos Lora Robertson
photo Julieta Cervantes
CONVERSATION
13 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Vivaldi
Costumes: Marc LeBihan
2 chairs, 2 fortresses, 2 empires, 2 microcosms which reign in tyranny.
1 table, battleground, place of expression, confrontation and a place to make peace.
2 individuals who strive to communicate and create a vaster, richer and stronger kingdom.
BLACK & WHITE
10 or 21 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Riceboy Sleeps
Costumes: Naomi Luppescu
Strong and tender exploration of harmony in supposed opposites (color, sex, dark/light, feminine/masculine inside of you, yin and yang...)
SHIFTING SHADOW
11 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Alva Noto
Costumes: A.Christina Giannini
Inspired by a man scared by his own reflection and shadow, this piece explores the truth behind
the illusion of the self and its multi-dimensional shadows that project both on the self and others.
“An excellent work, both Mr. Vignoulle and Mr. Perez are superb dancers that made the piece vibrate with both emotion and intellect.”
NYC Dance Stuff (USA)
“The magical contemporary dance was demonstrated by French dancers, isaies Santamaria and manuel Vignoulle. Shifting Shadow was technically complex and athletically riveting, highlighted with opposing elements of balance and askewness. The work was given a standing ovation from its audience.”
El Horizonte (Mexico)
http://elhorizonte.mx:9000/a/noticia/513359
“The dynamic duo, Isaies Santamaria and Manuel Vignoulle, surprised the audience with both Shifting Shadow and Celebration. These works were audacious and atmospheric that showcased an impeccable, scenic dominion.”
El Porvenir (Mexico)
“A corporal language extremely expressive offering two innovating pieces.”
El Norte (Mexico)
http://norte-monterrey.vlex.com.mx/vid/deslumbrantes-527062322
photos Sharon Bradford -The Dancing Image
BREAKTHROUGH
28 minute piece for 12 dancers
created on Ailey II
Music: Mikael Karlsson
Lighting: Brandon Stirling Baker
Costumes: Naomi Luppescu
Individuals fighting to break through the heavy weight of properties in a world where emotions and feelings are prohibited. They desperately want to feel something inside, connect with an emotion... whatever the cost.
photos Eduardo Patino
CELEBRATION
7 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Laya Project
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
“In A Box was choreographed and performed by Manuel Vignoulle and featured Manon parent. This piece was “best in show”... There was great unison of choreography, a beautiful connection between the two, and admirable control choreographed into the movement and heightened the energy of the piece...great quality of movement of fluidity with moments of sharp, jagged motions...in all honesty, Vignoulle’s In A Box stole the show. I felt like crying, smiling and dancing when the piece ended. A job well-done.”
My pointe Taken: Dance Reviews from A Dancer
http://mypointetaken.blogspot.com
“Vignoulle’s edgy and ambitious In A Box was one of the festival’s highlights...They were some interesting and original canons in this piece, along with a few towering lifts witch were resolved with dramatic falls. Vignoulle took risks with this piece and they paid off.”
Wet Paint
http://www.irasperipheralvisions.com/WetPaint/latin-choreographers-festival-2012.htm
photo J.Battisti
photos R.Neville
TOGETHER WE STAND
19 minute piece for 5 dancers
created on 10 Hairy Legs
Lighting: Amanda Ringger
Costumes: Cindy Capraro
Music: Hugues De Courson, Manuel Vignoulle
Warriors know that the group is always stronger, more impressive, more powerful than isolated individuals. As a unique and indispensable extension of the others, no one can be left aside. If one falls, they all as a tribe, fall. In this state of emergency, to avoid losing a part of themselves, whatever happens, together they stand.
“Energetic and testosterone fueled work for five men...Together We Stand explores the camaraderie between those brought together by violence, as well as study of the manner we as individual relate to one another during crisis. Mr Vignoulle is also making a strong statement about violence in media and the exposure to the ready availability of violent subject matter... It is an exciting and engaging work.”
New York Dance Stuff
photos Steven Trumon Gray
“It’s a kaleidoscopic tangle of constantly contrasting textures. Its movement is insanely varied, with loosey-goosey turns taking instant shifts toward the sharply etched (and vice versa) without ever sacrificing any clarity...impressive...”
Seattle Times
http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/dance/whim-whim-dancers-master-many-styles/
“Four dancers in white turtlenecks expressed the difficulty of human connection with ingeniously entangled limbs and nuzzling...”
New York Times
“Exciting, fast pace and thought provoking...This piece is more intricate in his construction than past works, more complex in his use of body in space...masterfully wove.”
NYC Dance Stuff
“Vignoulle’s blend of modern dance with hip-hop was a mesmerizing combination…”
Informa Dance Magazine
http://www.danceinforma.com/2015/04/02/ailey-ii-brings-big-dance-to-small-stage/
“Bold…acrobatic but sinuous partnering…it is undeniably a tour de force piece”
OFFOFFOFF Dance
http://www.offoffoff.com/dance/2015/dancegallery2015.php
“...powerful, breathtaking duet choreographed by Manuel Vignoulle for himself and Rena Butler. Black and White juxtaposes two topless dancers of contrasting skin tones in a symbiotic relationship, inseparable and entwined. Like strands of DNA wrapping and unwrapping around each other, their duet unfolds with a fluidity that is aquiline and a force that is driving and earthy. Their movements have a primal, sexless quality, tribal and grounded, and their partnering showcases both the deep strength and divine grace of the human body. Eschewing gender stereotypes, both dancers show equal mastery of physical strength and effortless grace, traveling between the masculine and feminine stereotypes naturally. Like a moving yin and yang symbol, their duet speaks of unity and the commonality of what it means to be human; what makes us all the same rather than what is obviously different. There truly is nothing more beautiful than the human body in motion. Especially bodies at the top of their form, stripped down to their unabashed gorgeousness – beautiful not by outer standards, (although they were this as well) but by inherent standards all their own, asking audiences to see not what is obvious to the eye, but what can only be seen with the soul.”
CriticalDance
http://criticaldance.org/pushing-progress-showcase-series/
MAXIMIZING THE AUDIENCE
12 minute piece for 13 dancers
created on UT at Austin
Music: Wim Mertens
Visual Art: Jon Haas
Lightning: Chian-Ann Lu
Costumes: Lirit Pendell
This piece finds its inspiration in music, following the ever-changing melody and accents, and creates a trance-like experience through sound and movement.
photos Lawrence Peart
PALPABLE WINDS
8 minute piece for 2 dancers
Music: Ludovico Einaudi, Philip Glass
Lightning: Megan Rose Murphy
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
In a relationship, we try to understand the other fully.
But at the moment you think you know the other well, you also realize you grasp nothing but wind.
K.Bonura photography
photo C.Duggan
CRAZY...CRAZY LOVE!
22 minute piece for 8 dancers
Created on
Peridance Contemporary Dance Company
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
Lightning: Brant Thomas Murray
Music: Paul Anka, The flamingos, Frances Fay, Boby Hamilton, Frankie Lemon and the Teenagers, Laura Nyro & LaBelle, The Platters, Nancy Sinatra
Love is a game of illusion and disillusion. We bet. Sometimes we win. Everything seems so new, energizing, and full of possibilities. Sometimes we lose. We end up feeling needy and abandoned.
So much drama...A big masquerade? But addicted, we cannot stop playing, hoping the next one will be “The One”!
“Athletic...Evocative...Seductive...three male-female couples, in suits and slinky dresses, appeared to take great pleasure in dancing.”
New York Times
TWINE
5:30 minute piece for a dancer and a musician
created on Periapsis Music & dance
Music: Jonathan Katz
Lightning: Tuce yasak
Costumes: Manuel Vignoulle
“...conversational and sculptural in nature... yet completely unique to Vignoulle’s vision, Twine plays with the music, speaks to it, in lush suspensions and ultra quick, cat-like movements. The fluid quality of both the music and the dance is especially pleasing, the quarter notes in the music mirroring the aquiline choreography... Vignoulle’s choreography has a very visceral, primal and animalistic feel to it, deeply pleasing to watch, and his musicality is easy and natural. The final image of the piece... hasn’t left my mind.”
CriticalDance
http://criticaldance.org/periapsis-music-dance-creative-laboratory-dancers-musicians/
