In his works, French dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz, seeks to approach the realms of fine art and philosophy. When he accepted the post of artistic director of the Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne he declared the institution a museum for dance. Since then, the centre has regularly invited contemporary artists and thinkers from all disciplines to work together on new forms and formats. Musée de la danse is today a platform and source of inspirations for new developments in the international dance scene.

César Vayssié, French director and filmmaker, has been directing free, empirical cinema for several years, with movies devoid of any production constraints, the forms of which he deliberately reassesses out of a desire to put himself in the periphery of cinematographic narration. His work oscillates between that of documentary and fiction, dance and performing art.

A film by Boris Charmatz and César Vayssié
With: Or Avishay, Eleanor Bauer, Matthieu Barbin, Magali Caillet-Gajan, Ashley Chen, Sonia Darbois, Kerem Gelebek, Peggy Grelat-Dupont, Gaspard Guilbert, Christophe Ives, Dominique Jégou, Lénio Kaklea, Jurij Konjar, Élise Ladoué, Maud Le Pladec, Catherine Legrand, Naiara Mendioroz, Andreas Albert Müller, Mani A. Mungai, Élise Olhandéguy, Qudus Onikeku, Felix Ott, Annabelle Pulcini, and Simon Tanguy
Filmed on August 23, 2013 in Halde Haniel, Bottrop, Germany, with the kind permission of Ruhrtriennale — International Festival of the Arts and of RAG Aktiengesellschaft.
Photography and editing: César Vayssié
Assistant choreographer: Anne-Karine Lescop
Sound: Olivier Renouf
Director: Fabrice Le Fur
Dresser: Stefani Gicquiaud
Pilot: Holger Lubbe
Helicopter machinist: Thomas Lempke
Helicopter: Heli NRW
Camera equipment: Loca-images
Postproduction: Firm
Production: Musée de la danse / Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne in co-production with Same Art
Based on Levée des conflits (2010). Performance for 24 dancers. Choreography by Boris Charmatz.
Premiere in Essen, 2014