The Marseille choreographer duo n+n, formed by Nicole and Norbert Corsino, has created a third danse sequence that will be shown until End November, 2025 on the screens located on each floor of the Mont-Blanc Center, like a poetic interstice.

French pioneers of “cinedance”, the Corsinos have been exploring new territories at the crossroads of dance, visual arts and digital arts for over thirty years. Looking at the Mont-Blanc Centre as a “contemporary temple dedicated to cinema” and inspired by the architectural creativity of Marc J. Saugey, they choose to work on verticality because “no temples without columns, may they be in marble, stone or steel”. They present “moving bodies freed from gravity”: dancers merge in a virtual world, transposing their gestures into a high-tech universe intended to create a sensory impact. Flights, walks and vertical swims suggest that time rolls like a column.

With a first episode in late November 2024, The Followings has opened a series of proposals by n+n Corsino, which will change over the seasons. After a second proposal presenting a new series of movements to which phrases are grafted that evoke a feeling of suspension, like a surge towards a future as uncertain as it is radiant, this last proposal is like a spring haiku that condenses flights of starlings, plant arborescences and hieroglyphic bodies.

“The work of n + n Corsino continues throughout his corpus to seize this friction between historical and ahistorical, between writing of reality and writing of art. She places time and space in orbit in order to stage and piece together the capture of the living. Their language brings together the most sophisticated and inventive tools in the field of new image technologies and the craftsmanship of the dancing body. The connection between the two constantly opens up new territories of exploration. Escaping the gendered categories of art, being choreographers-filmers-visual artists, she and him – the duo is in itself a hybrid – I want to call them transformers: they combine and compose dance, image, musical/sound and literary creation, bodies and real and digital landscapes.Transforming is the movement itself and it’s where n + n Corsino come from, the dance, the only art whose name has no adjective, no associated qualitative property. It is a cycle, an ellipse, a rotation, a volta.”
Claudine Galea, in “Nouvelles Fables pour le Vivant”

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Biography of n+n Corsino

Since the very beginning of the 90s, Nicole and Norbert Corsino have been questioning dance, mixing body kinetics and virtual landscapes. After having been at the head of Ars Numerica in Montbéliard-Belfort as artistic directors from 2007 to 2010, the n+n Corsinos have managed SCENE44 since 2013, in the heart of the “La Belle-de-Mai” Media Center in Marseille. This European scene of choreographic creation and digital innovation welcomes artists and researchers in residence. Playing with formats and borders, their cinema-choreographic work range from the monumental – displayed on giant screens on a Shanghai skyscraper- to the portable – with graphic novels on tablets or smartphones. Integrating new developments in augmented reality and artificial intelligence, their recent installations favor immersive and interactive experiences.

Link: n+n website