Lundi 2 novembre 2009
A few pics of my day in Salzburg. With the sunset on the mountains..
Delfinette in Munich
Mercredi 16 septembre 2009
Today, the almost big boss of my dear company came to visit us. Crisis time, things needed to be laid down.
Result: French one. One hour meeting to say nothing...
To say that we have been going through a hard crisis, but that the future is bright,k and we are so sure that there is a high potential in Germany, and we are going to give you business from France. And we are all working to the same goals in all the countries and we are all friends and I'm not far away you can knock the door anytime (yeah sure.. you're CEO in Paris, I think I will send you an email when a junior consultant is not doing his work in Paris..). And we are all friends... BLABLABLA. Démagogisme. All clowns
I did not want to work in France for one reason. There is no reason why I should go through that in Germany. SO BYE BYE... The game is over
Result: French one. One hour meeting to say nothing...
To say that we have been going through a hard crisis, but that the future is bright,k and we are so sure that there is a high potential in Germany, and we are going to give you business from France. And we are all working to the same goals in all the countries and we are all friends and I'm not far away you can knock the door anytime (yeah sure.. you're CEO in Paris, I think I will send you an email when a junior consultant is not doing his work in Paris..). And we are all friends... BLABLABLA. Démagogisme. All clowns
I did not want to work in France for one reason. There is no reason why I should go through that in Germany. SO BYE BYE... The game is over
Samedi 12 septembre 2009
I have been back to Munich for almost a week now. After 4 weeks in Paris. It feels like a new birth. It's really
weird.
I was walking in the streets today, and I did not know if that was my town (and I say town, not city, because everything is so close, "gemütlich"), if I was in my town, then, or if I was a tourist discovering a new place. It was very weird. As were I in another world. Not totally there, but nowhere else either. Walking in Vikutalien Markt, to Odeonsplatz, as I had never been there. I feel a stranger everywhere, and it's gonna take some time before I feel right in place in Munich again.
Nevertheless, Munich is still one of the nicest place to live in, and this afternoon confirmed it again. This village atmosphear in such a big city is something you find nowhere else... I'm happy to be back.
I was walking in the streets today, and I did not know if that was my town (and I say town, not city, because everything is so close, "gemütlich"), if I was in my town, then, or if I was a tourist discovering a new place. It was very weird. As were I in another world. Not totally there, but nowhere else either. Walking in Vikutalien Markt, to Odeonsplatz, as I had never been there. I feel a stranger everywhere, and it's gonna take some time before I feel right in place in Munich again.
Nevertheless, Munich is still one of the nicest place to live in, and this afternoon confirmed it again. This village atmosphear in such a big city is something you find nowhere else... I'm happy to be back.
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Mercredi 9 septembre 2009
Maurice Béjart.Pina Bausch
And now, Merce Cunningham, on Jul 27th 2009.
Another giant gone. Another milestone in the history of modern dance. The fqther of one of the 5 official modern dance techniques. Merce Cunningham, 90 y.o.. Ok this would have happened one day. but so close to Pina? Can the fathers and mothers of modern dance survive when the others are gone? There are still a few there. and hopefuly for a long time. Carolyn Carlson, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, Lucinda Childs, etc.
I will not tell you the life of Merce Cunningham. You only have to Googlize his name to get much more information than I could ever give. No, I only wqnt to tell you what I feel this American choreographer gave to dance. So it's only going to be my own view on him.
Photo: Annie Leibowitz
He was born in 1919, and was not meant to dance. and at the time, the only dance you could learn was basically ballet. But he had the chance to meet Bonnie Bird, who was taught by Martha Graham, that is the verw mother of modern dance. And from this meeting was Merce Cunnigham born, even if he after leant ballet. Merce cunningham had the chance to meet modern dance before ballet, which probably influenced his all destiny. Martha Graham, one again, contributed to the evolution of dance.
But Merce cunningham wouldn't be Merce Cunnigham without his relation with composer John Cage. Together; they re-invented the relation between music and dance. Music was not at the service of dance anymore, it could exist for itself. And on other hand, dance did not have to follw exactly the music. Therefore, Merce Cunningham is for me the choreographer that gave music and dance two distinct identities. And it is worth saying that he was always rehearsing without any music; and only introduced the music to his dancer at the last rehearsal. A real challenge for them. Paroxism was his piece where the sequence would be randomly changed everyday, meaning that all the steps have to be adaptable to any music. That was a revolution that has inpsired many choreographs.
His language; of course. Not yet classic but not modern as well. some mix, with the introduction of the upper body. And a very geometrical dance. Very precise. Very hard technique.
finally, the costumes. He was among the first to introduce the academique; which shows the whole body, while qa the time, tutus and ballet were the norm.
In the end; he did a lot for dance. I could see one of his pieces in 2004 in Paris. He was there. and; as all the great great choreographers, his body could not dance anymore. But everything in him was still dancing. Impressing. emotional. Like Pina. Like Maurice. Bye,all, and I hope dance will go on growing up even without you. It's weird to realize you're not there anymore, and you won't create anything new. While we were used to discovering one new piece year. Bye, and thanks.
Mardi 8 septembre 2009
Rebonjour à tous!
après 3 semaines de vacances (dont une au Burkina Faso, je publierai peut etre quelques photos bientôt), 4 semaines à Paris pour le boulot, me voici de retour dans mon petit home munichois... et je vais commencer par une anecdote qui m'est arrivée il y a deux semaines. Je voulais partir à Londres pour le week end...
EPISODE 1
Donc au départ je voulais aller à Londres, mais comme vous m'aviez dit que vous etiez pas la, je me suis dit ca vaut pas le coup. donc pendant la semaine avant, j'ai decidé d'aller a deauville plutôt. Le jeudi, j'essaye de reservere un hotel a deauville. tout est complet sur deauville trouville, etc... que faire????
Donc le vendredi je me dis tant pis, je vais à londres quand meme trop besoin de partir de paris.. Je pré-reserve un billet par trop cher, et l'hotel dans la foulée.. Le soir, histoire que tout soit bien calé, je veux payer mes billets en ligne. Et la ca marceh pas. J'essaye 1, 2, 3, 4 fois. Rien.. J'appelle la sncf sur 3 numéros différents. toujours pas possible et bien sur l'option se termine a 7h du mat le lendemain, donc impossible d'eller prendre mon billet en gare... bon ben tant pis alors. je déreserve mon hotel (j'ai de la chance, je devrai payer des frais, mais ils ne me comptent rien).. FIN DE L'EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2:
10h du matin.. mouais.. j'ai pas envie de rester sur paris tout le we... je retente la resa en ligne. marche pas... par téléphone... marche pas.. GRRR. enfin, par tél ils m'ont posé une option jusqu'à 14h,. parce que du coup, j'ai loupé le 11h42, et le prochain a un prix correct, c'est 14h45... mais bon.. bref option jusqu'a 14h c'est bien. Mais j'appellle ma banque pas normal que ca marche pas.. En effet, j'ai dépassé mon plafond de paiement en ligne du mois (tout ca pour 2 avions que j'ai résercvé pour la boite). re GRRR. Bon ben il me reste plus quà aller retirer les 300€ de liquide pour payer le train, l'Hotel et le week end.. tout va bien...
13h55: delphine arrive À la gare à l'arrache pour retirer son option... comme elle se finit a 14h00, je grille toute la queue. obligée :-)
14h08: J'arrive au comptoir. mon option est elle encore valable?? suspens... Le mec tapote deux trois trucs sur son ordi, et c'est bon! youpi. je sors mes billets pour payer mon billet! Et je cours me mettre dans la queue
14h11: alerte colis piégé ... les embarquements sont arrêtés, pour un temps... incertain.. la je me dis trop c'est trop.. décidément il sera dit que je n'irai pas à londres.. J'abandonne. je repars dans la queue des guichets. bien sur, mon billet n'est ni echangeable ni remboursable
14h35: de nouveau au comptoir... est ce que je peux rendre mon billet parce que la, arriver à londres à 19h, ca me tente moyen pour un week end... Oui mais mon billet est pas remboursable...
14h40:; après négociations et supplications, je repars avec mes billets en poche, et mon billet de train rendu! Ca a marché! mouais, enfin j'ai encore mon 2è hotel à débooker.. et normalement ya des frais!
14h50: après 3 coups de fils, tout est arrangé. Je ne pars pas à londres, mais je ne paye rien... Du coup tant pis j'irai passer la journée à deauville
EPISODE 3 et FIN:
le lendemain, sur la plae de deauville, en train de buller toute la journée
Avec un enorme coup de soleil à la clé.. Mais qu'est ce que c'etait bien!
après 3 semaines de vacances (dont une au Burkina Faso, je publierai peut etre quelques photos bientôt), 4 semaines à Paris pour le boulot, me voici de retour dans mon petit home munichois... et je vais commencer par une anecdote qui m'est arrivée il y a deux semaines. Je voulais partir à Londres pour le week end...
EPISODE 1
Donc au départ je voulais aller à Londres, mais comme vous m'aviez dit que vous etiez pas la, je me suis dit ca vaut pas le coup. donc pendant la semaine avant, j'ai decidé d'aller a deauville plutôt. Le jeudi, j'essaye de reservere un hotel a deauville. tout est complet sur deauville trouville, etc... que faire????
Donc le vendredi je me dis tant pis, je vais à londres quand meme trop besoin de partir de paris.. Je pré-reserve un billet par trop cher, et l'hotel dans la foulée.. Le soir, histoire que tout soit bien calé, je veux payer mes billets en ligne. Et la ca marceh pas. J'essaye 1, 2, 3, 4 fois. Rien.. J'appelle la sncf sur 3 numéros différents. toujours pas possible et bien sur l'option se termine a 7h du mat le lendemain, donc impossible d'eller prendre mon billet en gare... bon ben tant pis alors. je déreserve mon hotel (j'ai de la chance, je devrai payer des frais, mais ils ne me comptent rien).. FIN DE L'EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2:
10h du matin.. mouais.. j'ai pas envie de rester sur paris tout le we... je retente la resa en ligne. marche pas... par téléphone... marche pas.. GRRR. enfin, par tél ils m'ont posé une option jusqu'à 14h,. parce que du coup, j'ai loupé le 11h42, et le prochain a un prix correct, c'est 14h45... mais bon.. bref option jusqu'a 14h c'est bien. Mais j'appellle ma banque pas normal que ca marche pas.. En effet, j'ai dépassé mon plafond de paiement en ligne du mois (tout ca pour 2 avions que j'ai résercvé pour la boite). re GRRR. Bon ben il me reste plus quà aller retirer les 300€ de liquide pour payer le train, l'Hotel et le week end.. tout va bien...
13h55: delphine arrive À la gare à l'arrache pour retirer son option... comme elle se finit a 14h00, je grille toute la queue. obligée :-)
14h08: J'arrive au comptoir. mon option est elle encore valable?? suspens... Le mec tapote deux trois trucs sur son ordi, et c'est bon! youpi. je sors mes billets pour payer mon billet! Et je cours me mettre dans la queue
14h11: alerte colis piégé ... les embarquements sont arrêtés, pour un temps... incertain.. la je me dis trop c'est trop.. décidément il sera dit que je n'irai pas à londres.. J'abandonne. je repars dans la queue des guichets. bien sur, mon billet n'est ni echangeable ni remboursable
14h35: de nouveau au comptoir... est ce que je peux rendre mon billet parce que la, arriver à londres à 19h, ca me tente moyen pour un week end... Oui mais mon billet est pas remboursable...
14h40:; après négociations et supplications, je repars avec mes billets en poche, et mon billet de train rendu! Ca a marché! mouais, enfin j'ai encore mon 2è hotel à débooker.. et normalement ya des frais!
14h50: après 3 coups de fils, tout est arrangé. Je ne pars pas à londres, mais je ne paye rien... Du coup tant pis j'irai passer la journée à deauville
EPISODE 3 et FIN:
le lendemain, sur la plae de deauville, en train de buller toute la journée
Avec un enorme coup de soleil à la clé.. Mais qu'est ce que c'etait bien!
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Mercredi 1 juillet 2009
Pina Bausch is gone. Yesterday, on Tuesday June, 30th. She was one of the major figure in the history of dance in the 20th century, and has revolutionned the relation of the dancer to the floor, and its dance technique. One year and a half after Maurice Bejart's goodbye, contemporary dance is loosing one of its parent. That was a word of the new French Culture Secretary: loosing Pina and Maurice within less than two years is hard for dance. I completely agree. Thank God there are still some people left: Cunningham, Carolyn Carlson, Angelin PRejlocaj, Forsythe, Kylian, etc.. Let's see however if dance will survive those two enormous losts.
A German dancer and choreograph, Pina Bausch was born in 1940, and was director of the Tanztheater in Wuppertal. She has given so much to dance. Thanks to master pieces like the Rite of Spring, or her Cafe Müller, she gave contemporary dance a new dimension, a new energy. She gave it power and inner violence, and her work became a milestone that allowed further choreograph to invent a new, more grounded language, enabling dance to become what is is today. Her work was so true, so powerful, so impactful, you could not stay neutral when attending one of her performances. With Maurice Bejart, she was also among the few that have introduced texts, theater and speaking within the choreographies. In a word, she invented the concept of tanztheater. Thanks, Pina. Your legacy will remain forever.
More articles here, there and also here.
Dimanche 28 juin 2009
One of the most spoken about exhibitions has stopped in Munich for a few months: The Tutankhamun exhibition, showing the treasures that have been found in the pharao's tumb. 2008 in London, the exhibition is now installesd in the Olympia Park in Munich, in the former olympic velodrom.
Depsite the entrance price that would prevent many of us to go (19€), this exhibition is worth seeing. For several reasons:
- you get to see all the treasures that were found in Tutankhamun's tumb when it was discovered by Howard Carter in 1900. And once the exhibition is over, they will all go back to Cairo, where they are to never go out again. So the exhibition is unique
- the scenography is splendid. the path is well constructed, triggering increasing interest of the visitor to its climax, at the end, where you can see THE mask.
- information given in the exhibition is rich and interesting
- and last but not least, the pieces you are given to see are breathtaking. 3000 years old, and almost intact. Full of gold. And the sarcophage intact, with the momy inside, is very impressive
In a word ... GO
Lundi 22 juin 2009
I've recently decided to get more involved on Twitter (recently... Ok that was yesterday!)
Still haven't really understood what the point of the whole stuff, but if I know, I'll let you know. Why would I tell people I don't know that I am currently brushing my teeth, watching tv, or drinking baileys (yep, I'm drinking baileys right now.. So good. Mabe it helps me prepare my presentation for in two days time)
Anyway, back to Twitter. Seems that I'm not the only one having an account but not really knowing what to do with it. The Twitter's firm value has been growing for months and years, the firm was almost bought by FB, this was the newcomers on the market, until they recently stopped valuing the firm on the number and evolution of members (recently.. a bit more than 2 days this time :-)) Now they are considering active users, that is, if I don't mistake, people posting on Twitter at least once a month, and the value of the firm has strongly dropped. Surpinsigly. And even despite that considering the service offered by Twitter, that is instant status posting, the fact of posting something once a month does not really makes u an active user..
Anyway, I'm working in online marketing, Web 2.0, so investigating on the benefits of Twitter belongs to my job! :-)
Oh, I forgot.. If you want to follow me: Tinkerdel that's me :-)
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Dimanche 21 juin 2009
New day new activity. Today was golf day. 17 min away from Marienplatz with the S-bahn. Some practice, some putting, and right as the sum was there. Nice isn't it.. A good way to forget work for a few hours. And some sport which is not bad too.. because only one ballet training a week is a bit to little, isn't it?
Anyway, there a lot to improve in my golf style, but how do you really want me to manage to be turned in??? Honestly?
But I had a great time, got good advice from my friends who know you to golf, and had lot of fun with them. And that's the most important. Now rain has resumed over Munich, but I#m at home, so who cares? :)
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Vendredi 19 juin 2009
Part of the happening. Waiting room
New production at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Zugvögel von Jirí Kylián.
An experiment. When dance and performing arts are reinvented. When the public take part in the show. When the show is not only on stage but everywhere.
The concept of taking the show out of stage is not new. However, in opera houses, it is very ambitious and innovative. Only very few people have done it so far. The most recent exemple I can remember of is Jose Martinez and his Les enfants du Paradis. THis is just like breaking all the boundaries that exists in the theatre, and that define who belong to where. Everything is mixed, and the audience gets in the show, becomes part of it. The public world of theater, the stage world and the behin the stage world are one at least.
This is this experiment that Jiri Kylian has conducted in the opera house. Indeed, the show was divided in two parts. While the second part was made of the show on stage it self, the first part was a happening. A walk behind the stage, under the stage, on the stage, during which you suddenly meet weird creatures (dancers) in the least expected places. Zugvögel, migrating birds. we were all migrating birds in those unkwnown corridors.
I personnally really enjoyed the first part of the show, because this behing the stage world is really where I belong. And because being on stage was also a great feeling. And I could imagine what it would have been like to be on stage for Aida.
As to the second part of the show, I have to say that I haven't been totally convinced. I find Jiri Kylian better for short pieces than for this 1 hour 30 piece. First of all, the whole point of the story was not clear. A study on the artist whan he has become to old to be on stage, and must leave his world. But weird so weird. And Kylian decided to use video, and dance sequences were interrupted by film sequences. Or the opposite. This has disturbed me a bit, not to find a unity in the show. However, Kylian is Kylian and will remain Kylian. That means that his duets and solos are as beautiful as ever. His language is just so fluid, so emotional.
So in the end, I do not regret to have attended the performance, but I was expecting more dance...
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