Current Work: Available for touring


“Eteins Pas”(working title)


A fragment of an idea that has evolved into a work in progress Solo piece, Developed during Choreodrome 2009

at the Place.

The piece was inspired by the idea of life after death, with many ideas coming from reading stories about out of body experiences.

"This source material was a great stimulus to challenge my existing movement vocabulary and ways of thinking while performing. The piece is partly improvised.










“Breaking Point” : “Al Limite” (Work in Progress) 15min


Featuring four dancers and two musicians and was inspired initially by the effect of the music on people in the hip-hop culture and the bboying scene. Exploring examples of the breaking point in the media, and in our everyday lives. From the critical moment of personal stress, to the the bboy throwing down to the break in the music, breaking point is the instinctive human response to emotion, music, society, life... Video


Concept: Mickael Marso Riviere

Directed: Mickael ‘Marso’ Riviere and  co-directed by Navala Chaudhari

Choreographed In Collaboration with dancers by:

Mickael ‘Marso’ Riviere, Navala Chaudhari. Kevin Turner, Sabri Colin
Music: composed & performed by Miguel Marin & Jason Kalidas
Lighting designer: Bill Deverson
Costume designer: Ameena Kara Callender




“Appel” 13min

Marso developed the ideas for APPEL in collaboration with Navala Chaudhari in The Place’s research programme Choreodrome, and subsequently performed it as a work-in-progress in Touch Wood. The work is a trio based on the live interaction between two dancers (Marso and Navala) and Musician (Jason Kalidas) who plays Bansuri (flute) and tabla. The piece portrays the instinctive elements of dance and the spontaneity of music, inspired in equal parts by B-boying, Capoeira and Contemporary dance.. Video


Concept: Mickael Marso Riviere

Choreography: Marso and Navala

Dancers: Marso and Navala

Music: Jason Kalidas


*Appel is currently Being reworked with new Dancer Lila-Mae Talbot and Touring from March 2010! see our Diary page....



Past Repertoire



"Decalage"(the piece) 25min


“Decalage is an intriguing love triangle, a collision of dream worlds,

and a meeting of original minds. 

Three diversely trained bodies meet, exchange and engage.  Such is the connection between these performers that the unison phrase combining floor-work and Capoeira is a hypnotising vision of inverted shapes, perfectly matched movements dynamics and speed trails left on the retina where flying limbs have already passed by.” (www.ballet-dance.com, Cerise A.)


Choreography and Concept: Mickael Marso Riviere

Asistant Choreographer/Rehearsal Director:

Navala Chaudhari

Performed and Devised by:   

Marso, Navala Chaudhari, Christopher Rook(Version 2007), Nathaniel Conroy

Body Percussion: Nathaniel Conroy (Original version)

Soundscapes and Editing: Darren Ibbetson/Urban Studio Leeds and Marso

Lighting Designer: James Mckenzie



"See" 35min

               

“Comes from an extract of a distant vision:

The future human civilisation coping with the after-effect of a long ‘exposure’ to combined genetic and climatic changes, human errors, progress of the ecological system, and the consequent mutations.

Communication, feelings and senses are altered: A world moving fast may soon come to a standstill, realising what it’s missing.”


Choreography and Concept:  Mickael Marso Riviere

Rehearsal Director:  Navala Chaudhari

Performed and Devised by:   

Marso, Christopher Rook, Rose chu, Aurelien desobry

Poetry: Maxwell Golden

Music: Mukul

Excerpt from music for Russell Maliphant Company's "Choice", composed by Mukul (www.ambientTV.NET), used with kind permission.

Excerpt from "Pragnent Drums" by the Bandish Projekt (www.bandishprojekt.com), used with kind permission.

Lighting Designer: James Mckenzi


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