Performance by VOXEL

Featuring Eric Nébié

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.  

Performance by VOXEL, Modules à habiter par le travail de la danse

Featuring Eric Niébé

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.  

Performance by VOXEL

Featuring Nina Berclaz

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.  

Performance, Jacopo Miliani, Body oh boy nobody ! - MOCO Hôtel des collections

With Jacopo Jenna

In Body oh Boy Nobody!, a dancer moves around the stairs, the entrance hall and the patio of the MOCO. Gradually, the man partially undresses in a slow dance before dressing themselves again and continuing on their walk. Their gestures and movements recall well-known forms and images from art history, yet, presented without music and in a decidedly anti-theatrical context, the performance brings into play the relationship with the public, and creates a space in which seduction, desire and embarrassment can take shape.

For the opening of MOCO Hôtel des collections, Geoffrey Badel, a graduate of MOCO.ESBA and an artist based in Montpellier, presents An it harm none, do what ye will, a purification and protection ritual of the site that takes place within MOCO’s inaugural exhibition. The title of the performance, taken from Wiccan philosophy, means “Do as you wish, without it harming anyone” in Old English. Bringing together the manipulation of personal and symbolic objects, as well as of the body, gestural signs, vocal exercises and movement, the choreography is based on intuition and nods to Wicca, a form of worship that aligns itself as much with nature as it does with magic.

Performance by VOXEL

Featuring Clarissa Baumann

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.  

If happiness came, I miss the call is a performance conceived for MOCO Montpellier Contemporain by the artist duo, La cellule (Becquemin&Sagot), based in Montpellier. After having meandered around the institution in silence, as if they were part of the public, a young man and woman, dressed in a white cape, meet in the garden at the sound of a trumpet for a strange and melancholic dance duo. A short-lived moment, yet one of seduction, that deals with themes of renewal and transformation.

On the roof of the Corum, Pierre Peres performs Voix des Villes. In this piece, the artist transfers the idea that they originally conceived for a series of videos, Voix des Cimes, in which they sang a mountain range as if it was a musical score, to the urban landscape of Montpellier.

Performance by VOXEL

Featuring Clarissa Baumann

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.  

For more information please visit:  www.rockstore.fr 

From 20:00 to 23:00 :
 

> Last Yearz Interesting Negro / Jamila Johnson-Small

With Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and Rowdy SS

Last Yearz Interesting Negro is the solo project of London-based artist, dancer and choreographer Jamila Johnson-Small, whose performances blend narrative and states of trance, electronic music and dance, poetry and video through a decolonial lens. At Rockstore, alongside their collaborators Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome and Rowdy SS, Last Yearz Interesting Negro presents a new performance, slow burn (I Want You), an expansion of practices they have been developing in soft practice workshops, and which have been adapted here for a group of performers.

> Mathilde Fernandez

Originally from the south of France, Mathilde Fernandez presents a live concert at Rockstore. Coming from a visual arts and performance background, Mathilde Fernandez’s musical project is based on an exploration of the different potentialities of their voice. Whether via an electro or acoustic approach, their voice nowadays discloses a strong lyrical influence as well as the spectrum of the family of women whom Mathilde cherishes and that accompany them in the baroque universe that is theirs: Nina Hagen, Kate Bush, Catherine Ringer, Lene Lovitch, Diamanda Galas, Oum Kalthoum and Armanda Altaï.

> Nelson Beer

With a background that sits on the crossroads of different disciplines and territories, trained both as an architect and a classical pianist, Nelson Beer is a mutable, constantly shifting artist. Their musical productions meld influences from diverse cultures and are as much inspired by experimental music, techno, classical pop and R’n’B as they are by rap. As to their on-stage persona, central to their artistic project at large, it never ceases to evolve and to propose a fluid and blurred identity.

From 23:00 to 5am :

> AZ IZ

Az Iz has been painting and composing music from a young age. At the end of their teens, and via an initial passion for hip-hop, they came to electronic music. Discreet about their work since 2010, it is only in the last few years that they have begun to reveal some of their productions and their first live sets. Inspired as much by the soul of Erykah Badu as by the experimentation of Aphex Twin, by the forceful productions of Dixon or Objekt, their music unveils its own deep-seated energy.

> PIÑATA RADIO DJs

With the same passion that led them to create, and subsequently to organise and develop a web-radio, TMZK and OG Maxwell represent Piñata Radio in as much as DJs. With the groove and warmth of house music, the imprint of jazz or hip-hop, which drive them beyond their DJ sets, and the desire to explore new sounds, they represent the eclecticism of the radio’s programming. Two DJs, with sets to suit all moods.

> CHORDIAL

It is only in 2018 that these two DJs from Montpellier united forces to create Chordial. Since then, they have begun to play in a variety of spaces, offering up a mix of house music DJ sets: deep and soulful, as well as minimal and classic. Using sampling and other modular synths, their talents stretch equally to producing. Regulars at Lunar Bar, they have played at Cicada Festival as well as across other stages in the south of France, and nothing seems to be stopping them.

> MAMBOUSSA

Their productions may be familiar to some through Diplo’s Boiler Room session; others may know them through their famous remix of Daft Punk’s “Emotion” or simply through their own EPs, which, since 2015, have been released on some of the best European club music labels. First based in Montpellier, and latterly in the midst of Paris’ thriving club scene, Mamboussa is one of the last recruits to the music label, [re]sources, whose releases can be heard across the top dancefloors in France and Europe.

If happiness came, I miss the call is a performance conceived for MOCO Montpellier Contemporain by the artist duo, La cellule (Becquemin&Sagot), based in Montpellier. After having meandered around the institution in silence, as if they were part of the public, a young man and woman, dressed in a white cape, meet in the garden at the sound of a trumpet for a strange and melancholic dance duo. A short-lived moment, yet one of seduction, that deals with themes of renewal and transformation.

For the opening of MOCO Hôtel des collections, Geoffrey Badel, a graduate of MOCO.ESBA and an artist based in Montpellier, presents An it harm none, do what ye will, a purification and protection ritual of the site that takes place within MOCO’s inaugural exhibition. The title of the performance, taken from Wiccan philosophy, means “Do as you wish, without it harming anyone” in Old English. Bringing together the manipulation of personal and symbolic objects, as well as of the body, gestural signs, vocal exercises and movement, the choreography is based on intuition and nods to Wicca, a form of worship that aligns itself as much with nature as it does with magic.

Performance by VOXEL

Featuring Eric Nébié

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.  

Performance, Jacopo Miliani, Body oh boy nobody ! - MOCO Hôtel des collections

With Jacopo Jenna

In Body oh Boy Nobody!, a dancer moves around the stairs, the entrance hall and the patio of the MOCO. Gradually, the man partially undresses in a slow dance before dressing themselves again and continuing on their walk. Their gestures and movements recall well-known forms and images from art history, yet, presented without music and in a decidedly anti-theatrical context, the performance brings into play the relationship with the public, and creates a space in which seduction, desire and embarrassment can take shape.

Performance by VOXEL

Featuring Clarissa Baumann

Two square modules, created by Artelozera and activated by four young choreographers from the Exerce ICI/CCN Montpellier program, sit on the Esplanade de la Musique. Voxel – des modules à habiter par le travail de la danse consists of permeable working spaces in which different warm-up exercises, writing, improvised dance, strolls and performances take place. The human experience and a loss of bearings are essential to these actions. The utilitarian objects that are thus created are deprived of any status as a work of art. In this way, Voxel offers an alternative within the space of the everyday, and positions the viewer as an experimenter.