Mr & Mrs Dream

France
Discover the magic box where…“Everything we dream is realizable”
– Eugène Ionesco

Artist information

This is the story of two fictional beings travelling across time. They re-invent their lives, dream their love, meeting with reality momentarily. This ground breaking and entertaining performance manifest before our eyes at the speed of a shooting star...

Imagine dancing in the cosmos, swimming in a sea of words and watching rhinoceroses dancing, whilst discovering an incredible world that is yet familiar... You will be left with the desire to meet the two mysterious characters who emanate from the writers’extraordinary mind and share their story.

Imagine using immersive virtual reality and the industrial simulation technology to develop a new stagelanguage that would extend our imagination. This has been achieved by meeting at the crossroads of art, science and technology with a creative and enthusiastic team of engineers from Dassault Systèmes.

Marie-Claude Pietragalla is a dancer and choreographer born in Paris. In parallel to her career as a principal dancer, she has also developed a career as a choreographer and has created more than 25 works to date. As an acclaimed and iconic figure of French dance, she entered the Paris Opera Ballet School at nine years old and was hired by the Ballet de l’Opera National de Paris (Paris Opera Ballet) at the age of sixteen, after the performance of Don Quixote in which she played the role of Kitri. In 1998, she was appointed to the leadership of the National Ballet of Marseille, where she remained five years. She danced at the Opéra Bastille with Patrick Dupond the “Swan Lake” in 1992 and “Les Variations d’Ulysse” in 1995 under the direction of Jean-Claude Gallotta. In 1998, she won the Prix Benois de la Danse, one of the most prestigious ballet competitions in the world. Furthermore, she appeared in a one-woman show “Don’t look back”, a solo performance created for her by Carolyn Carlson. In 2002, she choreographed the show “Enzo”, a duo created for the show at the Olympia of Christophe. Since 2004 she has run her own company, the Pietragalla Company. By 2007, she began her second year of residency at the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and under the direction of Pierre Cardin created the dance-drama “Sade ou le théâtre des fous”. Presented first at the castle of Lacoste, this ballet was also given in 2008 at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris. In 2011, she reappeared alone on the stage of the Palace with Julien Derounault’s creation, “The Temptation of Eve.” Pietragalla is recognized not only for her extensive dance career, but her contribution as a choreographer in France

Julien Derouault is a dancer, performer, and choreographer. He has a strong track record of working with musicians, including Christophe, Laurent Garnier, and Didier Lockwood. In 2013, he choreographed Emmanuel Moire’s video clip Beau malheur and also choreographed and danced in Judith’s video clip Badaboum. In parallel to his career as a dancer and choreographer, Derouault has been teaching different forms of dance since 2000, including running choreographic workshops and training programmes for schools, people with a disability, young people, and professionals. Julien Derouault began dancing at the Mans Conservatoire then at the CNR in Angers. He perfected his skills, in 1994, with Larrio Ekson and Rheda. He later joined the École Nationale Supérieure de Danse de Marseille and was hired a few months later by the Ballet National de Marseille, then directed by Roland Petit. There, he was appointed soloist by Marie-Claude Pietragalla. Derouault mastered both the classical and contemporary repertoire, while perfecting his own technique. Since September 2000, he’s worked with Marie-Claude Pietragalla on all his creations. In 2004, he founded the Théâtre du corps with Marie-Claude Pietragalla. They coécrivent and create choreographies “You … Remember,” “Drunkenness,” “Les Noces.” and “The Rite of Spring.” “Human Conditions,” and “Marco Polo” (where he plays the leading role). Derouault choreographed “Temptation of Eve,” in 2009, for Pietragalla, a solo that triumphed at the Palace theatre in Paris.

Laurent Garnier has been making the planet dance for 25 years. And, for all this time, his huge energy has seen him grooving behind record disks, bouncing up and down behind studio equipment and leaping around radio studios. But above all he is a DJ, a true DJ: transformed by music, passionate about the crowd. One of the pioneering DJs of the dance music scene, Laurent Garnier experienced first-hand the euphoria of the Acid House movement in Manchester. He then went on to Wake Up and shake up Paris nightlife, from La Luna to the Palace, not forgetting the Rex Club. As one of the leading lights in French dance music at the end of the 1980′s, he then spread his message across the planet, from raves to warehouse parties, clubs to festivals. At the beginning of 2011 Laurent Garnier was the only Frenchman, amongst 35 international DJ’s, to be shortlisted for “best DJ of all time” by the English magazine Mixmag.Discover the magic box where...“Everything we dream is realizable” Eugène Ionesco

This is the story of two fictional beings travelling across time. They re-invent their lives, dream their love, meeting with reality momentarily. This ground breaking and entertaining performance manifest before our eyes at the speed of a shooting star...

Imagine dancing in the cosmos, swimming in a sea of words and watching rhinoceroses dancing, whilst discovering an incredible world that is yet familiar... You will be left with the desire to meet the two mysterious characters who emanate from the writers’extraordinary mind and share their story.

Imagine using immersive virtual reality and the industrial simulation technology to develop a new stagelanguage that would extend our imagination. This has been achieved by meeting at the crossroads of art, science and technology with a creative and enthusiastic team of engineers from Dassault Systèmes.

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